Why Is LeSS Authentic? Why Should Leadership NOT Exempt Itself from Learning LeSS?

Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) is an agile framework that has a history of implementations, trials & errors, experiments and experience reports collected and documented throughout more than a decade. LeSS is Scrum, performed by multiple teams (2-8) that work on the same widely defined product, for the same Product Owner. LeSS stresses the importance of … Read more

Not All Scrum Anti-Patterns Are Easily Identifiable

“This is not true Scrum!!!” – we often hear from people, pointing at omissions and pitfalls of fake Scrum implementations.  The list of classically seen Scrum anti-pattern could become pretty exhaustive.  Here are some examples of  “Dark Scrum” (as Ron Jeffries puts it): Multiple people playing the role of Product Owner No Scrum Master present … Read more

06/13 – LESS TALKS: Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution

On June 13, Gordon Weir delivered his great presentation “Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution” at NYC Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) meetup. Here are some of the key points made in the presentation: In 2006, there was a decision made to stop using the concept of a ‘project’, as this … Read more