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Run This Method Through Organizational Compiler January 3, 2020
11/13 – LESS TALKS: NYC LeSS CLP and Meet-Up with Craig Larman November 15, 2019
About Contracts That Support Agile Ways of Working October 6, 2019
Thoughts by Rick Waters, CST September 25, 2019
07/30 – LESS TALKS: Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution – Continued July 24, 2019
Guidelines to hiring a professional Coach July 10, 2019
Why Is LeSS Authentic? Why Should Leadership NOT Exempt Itself from Learning LeSS? June 18, 2019
Not All Scrum Anti-Patterns Are Easily Identifiable June 14, 2019
06/13 – LESS TALKS: Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution June 14, 2019
May 19-22: Global Scrum Alliance Gathering | AUS-TX May 21, 2019
May 15-16: Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) | NYC May 18, 2019
May 15-17: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course & MeetUp with Craig Larman | NYC May 17, 2019
2019 Big Apple Scrum Day Coaching Clinic – Highlights May 8, 2019
2019 BIG APPLE SCRUM DAY: COACHING CLINIC (COACHES WORKSHEET) April 22, 2019
Tips To Run ‘Big’ Retrospectives April 6, 2019
HR-Related LeSS Experiments – Deciphered March 22, 2019
BABA Meetup – Does Agile Really Work in Sales? March 11, 2019
02/07 – LESS TALKS: MEETUP – Scrum Master, F/T Role @ JPMorgan February 11, 2019
Survival List to Vendor Selection on Agile Projects January 27, 2019
Mentor-Guided LeSS Case Study Writing Experience Report January 24, 2019
November 17: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | NYC November 18, 2018
11/01 – LESS TALKS: MEETUP – Tracing Local Optimizations throughout the System November 2, 2018
Prince 2 and Agile: any Relationship? November 1, 2018
September 17-19th: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course With Bas Vodde | NYC September 20, 2018
Sept 13 -14 | 3rd Global LeSS Conference | NYC September 13, 2018
August 25: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | NYC August 26, 2018
May 30th-June 1st: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course With Craig Larman | NYC June 2, 2018
Centralized vs. Decentralized Coaching May 22, 2018
2018 BIG APPLE SCRUM DAY: COACHING CLINIC May 12, 2018
2018 BUSINESS AGILITY CONFERENCE – NYC March 15, 2018
2018 BIG APPLE SCRUM DAY: COACHING CLINIC (Coaches Worksheet) March 9, 2018
Proper Scaling of Scrum and Dynamic Financial Forecasting February 5, 2018
December 6th-8th: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course With Craig Larman | NYC December 7, 2017
NYC Salary History Ban – What Does it Mean? November 13, 2017
Addressing Problems, Caused by AMMS October 15, 2017
10/13 – LESS TALKS: MEETUP – Working LeSS Brings Great Results (Case Study) October 13, 2017
How Detailed Should Business Requirements Be? Discovery Through Agile Gaming. September 22, 2017
What Should Agile Leadership Care About? September 18, 2017
Diagnosing Challenges in Scrum September 13, 2017
Agile Organization, as a Sushi Roll August 25, 2017
“Who are the Judges?” Who Decides on Who is Gonna Coach? August 7, 2017
LeSS “Construction”: What is it like? July 29, 2017
You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” July 9, 2017
Grassroots of Modern Command & Control Behavior June 22, 2017
Bad Choice of Verbs Associated with “Agile”, by EFL People June 12, 2017
05/26-28: Scrum Coaching Retreat | Kiev, Ukraine May 29, 2017
Sprint Length: Who Decides? How? Why? May 15, 2017
Are there better ways to teach? May 13, 2017
2017 Agile Maine Day Recap May 6, 2017
2017 Big Apple Scrum Day: Coaching Clinic May 2, 2017
Agile Flyer – 04-09-2017 April 8, 2017
Applying LeSS Thinking to Basic Scrum April 4, 2017
Agile Flyer – 03-25-2017 March 25, 2017
03/23 – LESS TALKS: Meetup – “Why are there so many attempts to ‘modify’ LeSS?” March 24, 2017
Agile Flyer – 03-18-2017 March 18, 2017
Challenges with Agile Training: Examples, Reasons, Consequences March 18, 2017
Agile Flyer – 03-10-2017 March 18, 2017
The “R” part of HR March 10, 2017
2017 Business Agility Conference – NYC February 24, 2017
Agile Flyer – 02-05-2017 February 5, 2017
Product Development Types: What Challenges to Expect in Each Case? January 26, 2017
Agile Flyer – 01-08-2017 January 9, 2017
Agile Role: Product Manager December 29, 2016
Agile Flyer – 12-24-2016 December 24, 2016
Dec 19-21, 2016. LeSS in New York: CLP Class & Meetup December 20, 2016
Coaching Roles: Agile & Technical Coach December 10, 2016
Agile Flyer – 12-04-2016 December 4, 2016
Agile Flyer – 12-04-2016 December 4, 2016
11/30-12/2 – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Class in Orlando December 2, 2016
Agile Flyer – 11-24-2016 November 24, 2016
“Give Thanks For Scrum 2016” in Boston November 23, 2016
Agile Flyer – 11-14-2016 November 23, 2016
How to Cultivate T-Shaped Developers? November 13, 2016
November 3 – Mike Beedle on Enterprise Scrum November 4, 2016
October 18 – LeSS Talks: LeSS PBR Session Simulation, with User Story Mapping October 19, 2016
September 13 – LeSS Talks: LeSS Conference in Amsterdam: Lessons Learned September 14, 2016
August 30-31st: The 1st Large Scale Scrum Conference in Amsterdam September 1, 2016
August 23 – LeSS Talks: Agile Budgeting & Finances: unveiling conventional management mistakes August 24, 2016
Extending Agile Manifesto August 9, 2016
Quotes from: Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential, by Bjarte Bogsnes August 5, 2016
Handling Interruptions in Scrum August 5, 2016
August 4 – LeSS Talks: Most Common Challenges in Product Ownership August 5, 2016
July 28|NYC: Jeff Sutherland at Credit Suisse July 28, 2016
July 7-8: Certified Scrum Product Owner Course with ScrumInc July 9, 2016
July 7 – LeSS Talks: Framing a perspective: LeSS, Nexus, Scrum @ Scale, SAFe July 7, 2016
Managing Performance by Extrinsic “Motivation” May 31, 2016
2016 Big Apple Scrum Day Coaching Clinic | NYC May 17, 2016
May 11 – LeSS Talks: Coordination and Management in Large Scale Scrum May 11, 2016
SAFe: Market Share Increase. Rapid Growth. What is the recipe? May 7, 2016
From LeSS Toolbox: Causal Loop Diagrams to visualize System Dynamics April 27, 2016
Global SCRUM GATHERING® Orlando 2016 April 20, 2016
April 16 – LeSS Talks: Discovery of System Relationships with Causal Loop Diagrams April 13, 2016
APRIL 6TH-8TH: CERTIFIED LESS PRACTITIONER COURSE WITH CRAIG LARMAN | NYC April 7, 2016
March 29th -LeSS Talks: Agility at Scale: Component vs. Feature Teams in LeSS March 30, 2016
March 15 – LeSS Talks: LeSS Overview and Q&A March 16, 2016
“How to make your teams faster” – with Dr Jeff Sutherland & Scrum Inc March 15, 2016
How Long Should my Sprints be? March 12, 2016
The Nureva™ Span™ ideation system March 11, 2016
Artificial Ring-Fencing And Separating Walls Crumble, Eventually March 6, 2016

06/17-19 – Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Practitioner with C. Larman – NYC | NY

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05/11-13 – Scrum Alliance Global Scrum Conference | NYC

06/17-19 – Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Practitioner with C. Larman – NYC | NY

07/20-24 – Agile2020 Conference – Orlando, FL

09/2020 (TBA) – LeSS 2020 Conference | Amsterdam

2019 Slack Agile Discussion Club: Adaptive Ecosystems – Global

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Digital tools considered harmful - Jira January 16, 2020
Digital tools considered harmful: Jira At the time of this writing, Jira is probably the most widely used digital tool in Scrum and LeSS adoptions. Unfortunately, using Jira commonly leads to some predictable dysfunctions. Some of these are: Scrum confusion and tool-owned processes Micro-management due to integration of Product and Sprint Backlog No shared team […]
Digital tools considered harmful - Sprint Backlog January 10, 2020
Digital tools considered harmful: Sprint Backlog It is unfortunately common to use a digital Sprint Backlog. I explicitly say ‘unfortunately’ because of the negative impact a digital Sprint Backlog tends to have on team dynamics and collaboration. Using a digital tool for a Product Backlog might also be common but is less harmful. Digital Sprint […]
Co-location still matters December 20, 2019
Co-location still matters! It is 2019 christmas. Will you skip the traditional family visit in favor of remote communication technology? “Dispersed teams is the reality that we have to deal with!” is a common reaction when people discover that the LeSS rules includes “each individual team must be co-located.” Do we need to accept that […]
Actively Doing Nothing December 16, 2019
(this article is for a series of posts of which some might be published in the upcoming book “97 Things every Scrum practitioner should know” in the O’Reilly series, which will be edited by Gunther Verheyen) Actively Doing Nothing (is actually hard work) What do Scrum Masters actually do, all day long? This is a […]
The Scrum Master as a Technical Coach December 5, 2019
(this article is the first in a series of posts. Some of these might be published in the upcoming book “97 Things every Scrum practitioner should know” in the O’Reilly series, which will be edited by Gunther Verheyen) The Scrum Master as a Technical Coach The best Scrum Masters that I’ve encountered spend part of […]

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