I’m a seasoned technical-minded agile software manager & leader with experience as both project manager and product manager. I’m an expert in product development applying well-proven state-of-the-art techniques like Lean and Agile into your embedded or PC application controlling an electrical motor, interfacing a touch display, communication bus or IoT business. UX and Interaction Design is key for my success enabling the understanding of customer requirements and motivating developers to design and implement the right functionality.I strongly believe in these:- Make it work, make it right, make it fast.- Work smarter not harder.- Expand your knowledge every day.Empowering my team of knowledge workers to apply the above they can via self-leadership navigate in the frameworks given by management and deliver increments of prioritized functionality to customers and actively react on change, still meeting the deadline with the expected product according to well-proven processes.I thrive in a multi-culture / multi-language organization where ideas are shared openly, team members help each other across professional disciplines and deadlines are mastered through incremental sprints.I am known to be the calm one keeping a professional overview, performing thorough analysis and summing up the achievements for quick response by team members and management. I make tools and processes accessible for developers for them to visualize progress and minimize administrative work so design, implementation and verification comes first.Reach me at gaardsted@stofanet.dk to learn more.Specialties: leadership by competence, management by facts, training & employee development, process optimization, customer insight, business value, qualitative product development, user experience, the right documentation.