On May 29, 2026, I gave a Swedish lightning talk at Agila Sverige in Stockholm. The title was Den värdeskapande vägen tillbaka till verksamheten: the value-creating path back to the business. The recording is now available.
The starting point was a frustration I think many people recognize. Organizations were taught that agile would save them, especially when scaled. When the effect did not appear, it was the product model's turn. Or the return of projects. Again. The words change, the boxes are redrawn, and the confusion grows, but too rarely do we begin with the most basic question: what are we here for?
The point is not that methods, models, or structures are unimportant. They can be necessary. But they easily become a way to avoid finishing the thinking. If we begin with the label, we risk creating an organization that looks modern on a slide, while the path from decision to real-world effect remains long, unclear, and full of local optimization.
What I wanted to say in the few minutes a lightning talk allows was simple: we need to find our way back to the business, not as a box on an org chart, but as the place where value is either created or lost. That is where the customer's problem, the citizen's need, the technology, the leadership, and the accountability have to meet.
I think many transformations would benefit from less fighting over terminology and more discipline in following the work all the way to impact. Not stopping at the process. Not stopping at the team structure. Not stopping at the model. All the way to value.