July 2025 – Coaching, Consulting, Training

Product Owner’s Influence & Empowerment Meter

July 22, 2025July 22, 2025 by Gene

When organizations embark on an agile transformation — particularly one that includes Scrum or Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) — a critical moment arises: selecting the Product Owner. It’s a moment filled with implications, because this role is not just a title or a box to check. It’s a keystone. Choose the wrong person, and the … Read more

LeSS Talks: Business Value Estimation with Chris Sims

July 18, 2025July 18, 2025 by Gene

Before You Cancel Out Agile Coaching And Say “Agile Is Dead” – Read This!

July 11, 2025July 2, 2025 by Gene

Are you an organization that is experiencing a fatigue of dealing with agile coaching roles saga, illustrated below, and trying to build an optimal and minimally necessary fleet of highly qualified and experienced coaches? Are you a highly qualified and experienced coach who is struggling to find your own ways for how to stand out … Read more

Trust, Care, and Love June 12, 2025
Build the culture of Trust, Care, and Love for the shared mental and physical space. Five significant patterns that are essential for group dynamics in teams. They happen all the time and have an essential function in the beginning. Skillfully facilitating them, again and again, will gradually develop a culture of Trust, Care, and Love […]
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The Hidden Cost of High Performance - Why optimizing teams in isolation can cripple organizational outcomes May 19, 2025
The Parts vs. System Paradox “Changing parts will have little impact on the system. But changing interactions or purpose can create a massive impact.” — Steven Schuster Systems thinkers have long understood this. So why do many organizations still obsess over optimizing individual teams — driving up local efficiency while system-wide performance stagnates or declines? […]
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What Is Your “Product” Operating Model? April 25, 2025
📢 Special Event: On May 2, please attend this free webinar "Using System Thinking & Modelling to Solve Tough Organizational Problems", delivered by Certified LeSS Trainer and Coach Gene Gendel and hosted by Lean, Agile and Large-Scale Product Development (LeSS) Global Community. Some of your pressing questions could be asked there! What is your “Product” […]
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AI-supported Org Design April 15, 2025
AI, of course, can be used to improve the performance of individual single-skilled specialists, and this is what we see as of 2025, but there is a large landscape. Let me share. AI-Supported Org Design (“AI OD” for short) will be becoming a hugely impactful topic affecting all of us and all the organizations in […]
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Requirement Areas March 21, 2025
In the last months, I’ve had many conversations in the LeSS community as well as in the product I work for, about Requirement Areas. From those discussions, I’ve discovered new ways of explaining them. Here, I’d like to share some of these. What are Requirement Areas? Requirement Areas is a grouping of items on the product […]
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