Agile methods for software development have become a well-known and trendy phenomenon since the turn of the millennium. Now, agile management methods are even starting to appear outside of the IT industry. We have interviewed and observed ten employees at a medium-sized system development company with the purpose to investigate how the meetings appear to the employees. We thereby aim to answer the question “What meaning does the stand-up meeting have for its participants?” The results are analyzed and discussed through Robert D. McPhee’s CCO-theory The Four Flows. We conclude that the meetings provide many potential benefits for coordinating activities, but that this depends upon the participants taking initiatives, focusing on relevant aspects of their own work and being familiar with the topics at hand. The respondents value the sense of overview and help in problem solving that the meetings provide. Still, what is being said during the meetings can sometimes be hard to understand. Participants generally have their membership negotiated in a way that includes them in the organization. However, new employees often experience initial comprehension difficulties. The daily stand-up is a place for organizational reflexive self-structuring mainly in the sense meetings enforces a sense of unity within the group. Institutional positioning however is not a predominant feature of this particular meeting routine. This study contributes to agile development communication in that it highlights the need for clarification regarding the goals of the daily stand-up-meetings, and that comprehensive difficulties should be addressed, not least for new employees.

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In September 2017, one of Sweden's largest banks Nordea, announced their plan to move their legal head office from Sweden to Finland. The move was a direct consequence of two governmental reasons. Firstly, the plan to raise the bank taxes. Secondly, the fact that Finland is a member of The European Banking Union. A union Sweden has chosen to not take part of. The decision to move has been highly criticized in Swedish media. It has been portrayed as a simple tax avoidance and greediness decision. Nordea have defended themself from the critique with the motivation that they will still be paying Swedish tax, as they did before, and the move is actually beneficial to the stakeholders, customers as well as Nordea as a bank and business. Media has a great impact in portraying a situation, the aim of this thesis is to analyze how Swedish media framed the information about Nordea’s move during one months time as opposed to how Nordea have communicated the situation externally via press releases and Facebook posts. We have used the method of frame analysis while examining articles published by Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet and Aftonbladet as well as Nordeas own press releases and Facebook posts. The scientific bases have been Framing Theory and Situational Crisis Communication Theory. The main findings from this study was that Swedish media has portrayed the situation differently to Nordea’s own external communication.

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Abstract Title: What is being said about the Swedish Democrats (Vad sägs om Sverigedemokraterna?)   Authors: Alexandra Constantinidou, Jesper Thoresen   Aim: The purpose of this study is to develop knowledge of how newspapers in Sweden presents the political party Swedish Democrats. Also if there is any difference between the three newspapers presentation of the party.   Method/Material: We have analysed opinion articles from the three newspapers, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet. Our chosen method for analysis is qualitative content analysis   Main Results: Our results showed that none of the newspapers presented the party in a positive or neutral way. The harshest critic of the party was Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. Svenska Dagbladet were also harsh in its critique but more lenient than the two previous. The texts we have analysed mostly touched on the parties politics and its racist history.   Number of pages: 54  pages   Course: Media and Communication studies C   Department: Department of Informatics and media   University: Uppsala University   Period: Fall term 2018   Tutor: Kirill Filimonov   Keywords: Swedish Democrats, Populism, Aftonbladet, Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet

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Den här studien syftar till att undersöka hur förhållandet mellan kommunikatörer och journalister kan se ut utifrån ett kommunikatörsperspektiv. Detta för att öka förståelsen för hur kommunikationsyrket har utvecklats och hur det uttrycker sig i kommunikatörens makt att påverka mediernas innehåll. För att uppnå ytterligare förståelse för kommunikationssyrket tas även etik-aspekten upp. Materialet studien utgår från har samlats in genom semistrukturerade kvalitativa intervjuer med fem yrkesverksamma personer inom kommunikationsbranschen. Genom denna metod kan vi komma åt de enskilda erfarenheter och uppfattningar respondenterna har kring förhållandet mellan dem själva och journalisterna. De transkriberade intervjuerna har sedan tematiserats och resultatet har tolkats i relation till det teoretiska ramverket. Studiens teoretiska ramverk utgår främst från journalistikforskning med teorier som medielogik, dagordningsteorin, gestaltningsteorin och grindvaktsteorin, och har även kompletterats med definitioner av makt, opinionsbildning, etik, news management och information subsidy. Studiens analys visar fem teman som utmärker sig i materialet. Utifrån dessa kan vi utläsa hur kommunikatörer ser på förhållandet till journalister som att det finns ett ömsesidigt beroende, att det föreligger en stark respekt till journalistyrket, att gränserna mellan yrkena håller på att suddas ut, och att de etiska aspekterna i kommunikationsyrket främst handlar om att kommunicera sanning. Vi kommer fram till att kommunikatörers makt har ökat under de senaste decennierna och vi för en diskussion kring vad detta innebär. Slutsatsen vi drar är att det är viktigt att det finns en tydlig gräns mellan de båda yrkena så att journalistiken förblir objektiv.

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When accidents occur, it is essential that fire and rescue service respond quickly and efficiently to the accident site to reduce suffering and save lives and property. Planning and coordinating of fire and rescue resources is therefore important in order to maintain a safe society. Firefighters in Sweden have by tradition worked in teams of five, and they have been allocated to fire stations strategically located in populated areas. However, this working approach has recently started to change and the fire and rescue services have started to deploy smaller groups of firefighters. These smaller units can be, for example, strategically located near high-risk areas or roads, or used for preventive work. The complexity of the resource planning process thus increases since the decision makers have to keep track of a large number of small units spread over the area. The new way of working has resulted in an increased need of support tools that can help the fire and rescue services in decisions regarding the resource management. In this thesis, optimization based decision support tools are developed in order to to support the fire and rescue service so they can efficiently manage, coordinate and dispatch fire and rescue resources with respect to the present demand for service. To find appropriate strategic and tactical locations for different types of response units, an optimization model that minimizes the response time to expected accidents is developed. The model considers both the response time for the first responding unit as well as the response time for the last responding unit. Furthermore, the model is flexible enough to incorporate any type of accidents or resources. The results show that the model can be used to produce practical support for various types of location decisions. To support the more complex operational planning, three optimization based decision support tools are developed. The tools can help the fire and rescue service to always maintain an adequate level of preparedness for handling accidents. To evaluate the preparedness, a quantitative measure has been defined and serves as the basis for the tools. The first tool can help illustrate the preparedness, the second tool to select appropriate vehicles and firefighters to dispatch to accidents, and the third tool to suggest how resources can be relocated to maintain an adequate preparedness for new accidents. The developed decision support tools are evaluated through tests and experiments with fire and rescue services in Sweden. Results from the experiments indicate that the three tools can support the fire and rescue service in operational decisions and in maintaining an adequate preparedness for handling accidents, but also that the planning time seems to increase when using the support tools. However, the participants’ experiences of the tools were in general positive, and they thought the tools were useful and that the tools could support their daily work. The perception of preparedness, which usually varies quite a bit among individuals, also seems to become more uniform with access to the tools.