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3Labs

The background to 3Labs is the purpose to create an environment where we have innovation being a part of our daily work – 3Labs is one way of doing just that.

So, the idea with 3Labs is to give all our awesome colleagues at 3 one day every month to do whatever they want (as long as it has something to do with 3’s business), work with whoever they want, work wherever they want – and work on it how much or little they want within the given 24 hours.

All the great ideas are then shared with everyone by having a “mingle demo” – where each lab gets a station and where the persons involved in the idea is presenting what they have achieved. Kind of a market place.


During the demo every visitor is given three pieces of LEGO, and those are then used to vote. Simply, one piece of LEGO equals one vote. The votes are piled up in a tower, and at the end of the demo all towers are put next to each other – and the highest tower wins.. a “wandering trophy” (handed over to the winner each time), and last but not least – wins the glory! 🙂


Everyone can participate as long as one has a good, crazy, small or big idea they want to experiment with and try out. It started off as an initiative within the IT department but has been growing ever since to evolve to other departments – and in some cases even external partners.


Last but not least; the ideas coming out from 3Labs are, in short, simply amazing! They vary from trying out a new tool, system or platform to delivering new apps, test-automation suits, one-click deployments, visualizing architecture and changes, and much more! As of today we have had 140+ ideas and concepts that have been demonstrated and shared within the company – which is awesome!

The Twelve Absolutes of Leadership

Gary Burnison considers leadership to be a privilege. Most people like the idea of leadership but few count the cost. He says;

“To lead is to be all in, transparent and accessible, calm in the face of upset and even crisis, and always mindful that you are a steward of something bigger than yourself.”

That’s not easy. To whom much is given much is required. That’s the part that easily trips us up.

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Release Planning

Release planning is simply the act of determining what functionality you’re going to be able to deliver in a certain time frame. Obviously you want this data to be as accurate as possible. The greatest accuracy is gained by basing the Velocity on actual historical data.

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Satir Model

Change will happen. Change will affect everyone – including you. Change is constant happening. The way to manage change is to manage the “dip” in performance that occurs every time a new change is introduced. Managing it means that you will have to try to make the dip in performance as small as possible! If it is not managed and the dip gets too profound – you might be certain that you will have a very hard time implementing your change and making it happen!

8 Rules For Creating A Passionate Work Culture

For the long-term viability of any enterprise you needed a viable corporate culture. It, too, has to be long-term. So, cultivate good people and keep them. Work with honest and competent business managers and give them a long-term commitment and support. From these modest principles, an empire can rise.

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Different perspectives

Looking at something that is very clear and obvious to you from your perspective does not mean that another person looking at the same object from another perspective see the same thing as you do! He as convinced as you that whatever he is seeing is “right”.

Imagine you and a friend standing on each side of this object arguing of what it says.

Who’s right?