A barrage of great questions made tonight’s session a long non-stop engaging dialogue. As annual performance appraisal “specialists” say (I am being very sarcastic now 😉 ), the intensity of today’s discussion “EXCEEDED my expectations”, so maybe someone will give me a bonus ;). The collaboration system Nureva that I used in place of a slide deck was really helpful. My personal retrospective: If I had just fewer slides on the wall, I could’ve made my presentation even more interactive. So, for me, another lesson learned: LeSS is more. And I promise to do it next time. The next LeSS discussion will be a deep dive into one of LeSS topics. Please, post questions or initiate discussions below.
And keep in mind:
- Official LeSS site
- LeSS MeetUp NYC group
- Next LeSS MeetUp NYC event
- 3-day Certified LeSS Practitioner course in NYC (April 6, 7, 8)
Below is the screenshot of Nureva virtual board with the set of questions that were captured. They will become an input for our next meet-up(s):
Note: Many thanks to Adventures with Agile – UK-based Community of Practice for scaling agile and organisational change,, for organizing this great event.
The following questions are transcribed from the slide above:
-Who coordinates technology?
-Definition of Component.
-Is ‘sharing’ something that LeSS Huge embraces?
-When do points start getting assigned?
-How many planning sessions for a single sprint?
-Does LeSS want full time scrum masters?
-How do feature teams agree across features?
-Does not a pool of shared resources contribute to the issues?
-LeSS impart on Line Management
-User story splitting/mapping
-Feature teaming and existing organizational structure: how does it play out?
-Use of casual loop diagrams to expose long term systemic dysfunctions.