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2026
- Ownership vs. Management: Traditional vs. Twisted Perception –
- AI in Agile Product Management: Importance of Smart Prompts and Context Engineering –
- LeSS Talks: Vibe Coding in the Era of AI, with Jon Kern (Agile Manifesto Co-Author) –
- LeSS Talks: Using Systems Thinking to Transform Organizational Structures –
- INTERSECTION: AI, HR & LITIGATION –
- From Projects to Products: Where Human Judgment Still Matters in the Age of AI –
- LeSS Talks: AI vs AI: HR & Hiring, with Brad Frazer and Jacob Downes –
- Larman’s Laws Meet the Manager’s Vise, with Dan Estby –
- Top 10 Questions Every BoD Should Ask –
- LeSS Talks: Systems Modeling with Sisko – your AI Systems Thinker, with Wolfgang Steffens –
- AI & Project Management (Hackensack Meridian Health Lunch & Learn) –
- LeSS Talks: The Real Drivers of Layoffs Beyond AI, With Gabriel Steinhardt –
- Real Life Experience Report: Interview With AI Bot –
- Working Hard Or Working Smart? What Will Prevail In The Era of AI? –
- The Inevitable Shift: AI, Project Management, and the End of Low-Intellect Work –
- Teaching Management In Modern Academia, In The World of AI –
- LeSS Talks: Navigating Complexity with Current Reality Trees, with S. Morrison & V. Gill –
- LeSS Talks: Same Disruption, Different Technology: Lessons from Media for the AI Era, with Chris Morales –
- LeSS Talks: Real Life Examples & Anecdotes from Lean Agile Software Development Coach, with Tim Arkell –
- Understanding Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Concepts & Fundamentals –
- Separating Noise from Signal What Is a True Agile Enterprise? –
- LeSS Talks: Separating Noise From Signal: AI Experiments That Actually Help Us Build Faster, Pascal Dufour –
- Not So Pretty Impact of AI On HR & Recruiting –
- LeSS Talks: “Leading Through Change: What Twelve Years at Vimeo Taught Me”, with Celeste Rose –
- You May Still Need Bald and Gray-Haired Peeps –
2025
- ChatGPT vs. ClaudeAI –
- Renewable Energy VS. AI: Are We Setting Our Priorities Correctly? –
- RECORDING: Q&A – Become a Certified LeSS Coach (CLC) Through Continuous Mentoring –
- Uncomfortable Truth About Agile Coaching: How Fast-Trackers Quickly Change Directions –
- AI vs. IA – HR Is Responsible For Keeping A Healthy Balance –
- LeSS Works: Aristotle Meets Agile: Philosophy On How To Be Better At Our Job –
- What Type Of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters Will AI Eat For Lunch? –
- LeSS Talks: Strobbo: From Startup to Scaling Slowdown and Returning to Business Agility, with Michael Voorhaen –
- Product Definition as a Function of Tech Stack Ownership: How Cloud Models Can Explain Certain Limitations –
- LeSS Talks: Reclaiming Human Sense-Making in an Age of AI Worship, with Dave Snowden –
- AI Fever and the Great Hiring Implosion: When Machines Hire Machines –
- OKR Summit Presentation: LeSS Layers Between “O” and “KR” Make OKRs More Meaningful –
- Modern Management Synopsis for Touro College –
- Errors & Omissions with Big-Bang Scaling – LATAM –
- LeSS Talks: Understanding Product Management Through Its Many Interpretations, with Gabriel Steinhardt –
- The Power of System Thinking: Understanding Organizations And Their System Dynamics –
- LeSS Talks: Who Owns the Code in an AI World?, w/ Brad Frazer and Ricard Hundhausen –
- LeSS Talks: Is the “Product Manager” Title Still Meaningful? – with Jordan Bergtraum –
- Scrum Master’s Influence & Empowerment “Meter” –
- Product Owner’s Influence & Empowerment “Meter” –
- LeSS Talks: Business Value Estimation with Chris Sims –
- Before You Cancel Out Agile Coaching And Say “Agile Is Dead” – Read This! –
- Dhaval & Gene: Evolution of Agility –
- 10 Signs That Your Agile Transformation is NOT an “Agile Theater” –
- Local Optimization: Fragmented Agility. Root Causes. Consequences. –
- Fair, Critical Review of “Becoming a Product Coach” by SVPG –
- LeSS Talks: Generative vs Prescriptive: Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks w/ Dhaval Panchal –
- Can LeSS Help Dealing With DOGE Without Painful RIFs? –
- “Agile Coaches Are Not Product Coaches” – Repercussions of a False Dichotomy Explained –
- Dependency Management Is Wasteful –
- LeSS Talks: Amazon’s Product Operating Model: A Peek Behind The Curtain, with James Gunaca –
- LeSS Works: System Modelling: Understanding PI Planning Shortfalls And Finding Alternatives –
- LeSS Talks: Using System Thinking & Modelling to Solve Tough Organizational Problems, with Gene Gendel –
- Avoid False Equivalency In Selecting Your Guides –
- LeSS Talks: AI is Going to Take All the Jobs… Or Is It?, with Dr. Bob Schatz –
- What Is Your “Product” Operating Model? –
- Agile Theater Chaos –
- LeSS Talks: Career Paths on Fire: How Tweaking HR Practices Supercharged Our Scaling Effort –
- LeSS Works: Maria Paz Andrade: Beyond the Product Team: Rethinking Product Ownership –
- LeSS Talks: Jim Benson: Beyond Silos – Visualizing Work for Flow, Collaboration –
- Business Agility (as a part of Organizational Agility) AND Business Resilience –
- LeSS Talks: Eylul Cesmeci: Surviving the AI Disruption When AI Leads, Does Agile Follow? –
- Synchronized Sprint Cadence: Thoughtful Decision or Cargo Cult? –
- (UN)FITNESS PARADOX: Why Scrum and LeSS May Not Fit Your Organization? –
- Dhaval Panchal & Gene Gendel AM Coffee Chat: Plan- vs. Results-Driven Orgs –
- Bringing It All Together: Developers “Shape” (I,T,M), DSEM and FTAM –
- LeSS Talks: Karen Kemerling, PhD: Psychological Safety: Foundation of High Performing Teams –
- Practice What You Preach – Coach & Trainer Wants to Play Product/Manager Owner Role –
- Large Scale Scrum (LeSS): Business Adaptiveness & Resilience –
- Organization Improvements: Therapy Or Surgery? It Is Your Choice. –
- Thought of The Week: Absolute vs. Relative Estimation –
- LeSS Talks: Michal Epstein: Agile Transformations In The Biotech Industry –
- Future of Product Development: From Fake Productization Saga to Truly Product-Centric Organizations –
- LeSS Talks: Johanna Rothman: Fake “Agile” is the Norm – How to Instill Agility, not Agile –
- Beyond Agile Theater with Gene Gendel: Product Centricity (Hosted by Andy Cleff) –
2024
- LeSS Talks: Managing AI: Turning Data, Drama, Deadlines into Deliverables, with Bob Schatz –
- Avoiding False Dichotomy: “If We Are Agile, We Are Not CMMI Compliant”. –
- LeSS Talks: Life Cycle of “Agile Power Tower”. EoL Expectations. Alternatives. –
- LeSS Talks: Embracing Brazilian and Portuguese Agile Communities –
- BayALN: Demystifying Agile Industrial Complex: Errors & Omissions with Scaling –
- Agile Share & Care: Should everything really be “a Product”? (What Is Fake “Productization”?… and how to avoid it) –
- LeSS Works: Agile Sustainability: our responsibility, with Ines Garcia –
- Future of Product Development: From Fake Productization Saga to Truly Product-Centric Organizations –
- Scrum Master’s Resume To Steer Away From –
- What Should A Good Scrum Master Know? SM “Stories”. –
- LeSS Works: Continuous Improvement inspired by LeSS experiments, with Yi Lv –
- LeSS Talks: Why ATDD Is Important In A Multi-Team Environment, with Markus Gaertner –
- LeSS Talks: Agility at University. It’s Impact on Corporate World, with Rosie Hauck, PhD –
- LeSS Talks: Business Agility, as a part of Organizational Agility –
- One Of The Best Maturity Metrics: Why should DoR “shrink” and DoD expand? –
- Modern Software Engineering Building Better Software Faster, with Dave Farley –
- LeSS Talks: Scrum Beers Halifax: About LeSS, without saying “LeSS” –
- LeSS Talks: Can You Really Be Agile If You Are Afraid Of Your Code?, with Asaf Ronen –
- LeSS Talks: Not So Extreme Programming, with Amitai Schleier –
- Gradual Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR) –
- LeSS Talks: The Truth About Change Resistance And How to Overcome It, with Cherie Silas –
- Important Organizational Enablers of Deep Systemic Improvements (e.g. LeSS Adoption) –
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- LeSS Talks: HR. Budgeting. [De]Scaling, with David West, Scrum.org CEO & PO –
- LeSS Talks: You and AI: Navigating an Uncertain Job Market, with Heidi Araya –
- Building Great Products with RIGHT!!! People – Chet Hendrickson & Hugo Lourenco –
- Interview with Michael James (MJ): Scrum Master Checklist Author –
- 10 Common Mistakes With LeSS Adoptions –
- Organizational Design, with Lance Rochelle – Distinguished Engineer at Large Bank –
- LeSS Talks: Impact of AI on HR, with Dave Snowden –
2023
- LeSS Talks: Agile Sustainability, with Jutta Eckstein –
- Dec 11-13: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC –
- LeSS Talks: Beyond Budgeting – Business agility in Practice, with Bjarte Bogsnes –
- LeSS Talks: The Balance between Alignment and Autonomy, with Mark Bregenzer –
- Job Retention & Job Security: AI, HR, Budgeting –
- LeSS Talks: Designing Agile Ecosystems with Org Topologies, by A. Krivitsky & R. Flemm –
- LeSS Works: Tangible Software Quality, with Gojko Adzic –
- LeSS Talks: The “Impossible” LeSS Adoption (remote experience), with Błażej Drobniuch –
- LeSS Talks: Ending the Age of Misery, by Andy Hunt ( Agile Manifesto Co-Creator) –
- LeSS Talks: Shift From Frantic and Stressful to Focused and Strategic PBR –
- LeSS Talks: Meeting with CEO of the LeSS Company – Bastiaan van Hamersveld –
- LeSS Talks: Maximizing Dependencies with Interdependent Teams, with Bas Vodde –
- LeSS Talks: GLAD Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Organizational Design with Craig Larman –
- LeSS Talks: How 17 Techies Changed The World: (Agile Manifesto History, by Jim Highsmith) –
- LeSS Talks: Systemic Adaptiveness of Ukrainian People During Crisis, with O. Buratynskyi –
- Optimizing Your Organizational Structure For Agility, with Wolfgang Steffens –
- LeSS Talks: Output of SW developer: is knowledge, NOT code!, with Viktor Grgic –
- LeSS Talks: “Inspire Agile Transformation from Bottom-Up“ LeSS Experiments @ German Company with Sofia Pelzl –
- LeSS Talks: GEMBA SPRINT Go, See and Do!, with Ahmad Fahmy –
- Another False Dichotomy? Do You Really HAVE to choose between Scrum and XP? –
- LeSS Talks: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT, with Columbia Professor Chuck Garcia –
- LeSS Talks: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Jon Kern –
- LeSS Works: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Uncle Bob Martin –
- LeSS Talks: Professor Snowden, Answering Tough Questions For: Individuals, Companies, Industry –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Why Agile Roles Are Being Eliminated? What Are Systemic Root Causes Of This? –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Communicate in Code & Integrate Continuously –
- LeSS Talks: Internal [Unintentional] Distortions of LeSS –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Navigating the LeSS Complete Picture –
- LeSS Talks: Agile Transformation And The Elephant In The Room, with Bjarte Bogsnes –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Don’t Confuse Prioritization and Clarification –
- LeSS 5000: Community Success Index –
- LeSS Talks: Should Design Teams Sprint Separately From Feature/Product Teams? –
- LeSS with Gene and James: LeSS Training Alone Is Not Enough –
2022
- LeSS Talks: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT, with Columbia Professor Chuck Garcia –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Focusing on Fundamentals. Reducing “Second Market” Frameworks. –
- 12/21- LeSS Talks: Understanding Organizations as a complex adaptive system, with Dave Snowden –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Internal [Unintentional] Distortions of LeSS –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Improving Quickly Requires Fixing Structure –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Multi-Team Refinement –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Selecting a LeSS Trainer –
- Nov 15-17: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC –
- Lunch & Learn @ Large Bank: LeSS Overview & Q&A –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Structuring Agile Transformations –
- Count Down Timer –
- LeSS Talks: LeSS Adoption Large Server Hardware Company, with James Carpenter –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Choice of Product Owner –
- Top 10 Typical Cases of Misunderstanding LeSS –
- Agile Vietnam Conference 2022: Majority of “Agile Transformations” Are Fakes And Failures. But There Are Exceptions. –
- Humanitarian Help For Ukraine –
- LeSS with Gene and James: Definition of Done (DoD) And Its Organizational Design Implications –
- LeSS Talks: Empowered Product Teams; Let’s Revisit The NNPG, with Gordon Weir –
- Events in LeSS: Ideas, Tips & Tricks –
- LeSS with Gene and James: From Component Teams to Feature Teams –
- LeSS Talks: Discontinuing Component Teams. Moving To C/F Feature Teams, with Leor Herzfeld –
- Organizational Design and Product Centricity Offerings –
- LeSS Talks: LeSS Experiments @ Start-Up Product Company, with David Nielsen –
- Experience Report: Organizational Design & System Thinking Training with Craig Larman –
- FINALLY!!! “Agile Maturity Calculator” Has Arrived –
- LeSS Talks: Hybrid Meet-Up. System Modelling. In-Person & Virtual Teams. –
- LeSS Talks: Introducing System Thinking To Product Development Organizations, by Lv Yi –
- Feature Teams vs. Product Teams? Organizational Implications of False Dichotomy. –
- “Can We Measure Adaptiveness?”, with John Coleman –
- LeSS Talks: System Thinking: HR and Budgeting implications on Product-centricity –
- Highlights of LeSS Adoption at Big Dutch Bank, with Cesario Ramos –
- Following FTAM By Expanding DoD VS. Becoming A Hostage To Traditional Org Structure –
- Highlights of BMW LeSS Huge Adoption, with Konstantin Ribel and Michael Mai –
- LeSS Talks: German Big Insurance Case Study Discussion, with Wolfgang Steffens –
- LeSS Talks 01/29: Extreme Ownership In Scrum: How To Become Accountable Leaders?, with Chris Roan –
- LeSS Talks: 01/10 – The Vicious Effects of Managing for Utilization, with Konstantin Ribel –
- LeSS Talks: 01/10 – Lively discussion w/ visual animation/sharing of scaling agile (LeSS online) –
2021
- Dec 01-03: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC –
- DCSUG: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams: Exposing Local Optimization –
- “What is Parallel Organization?”, with Konstantin Ribel –
- LeSS Talks: October 10: Experienced Coaches Share Their Learning Journey & Perspective –
- 09-24-DNA of Bad Scaling (@ Dublin North Agile) –
- LeSS Talks: 09/19 – Can Kanban be used with/instead of LeSS or Scrum? WHO is asking and WHY? –
- LeSS Talks: August 29: Dependency Myth Busting – Avoiding the Beliefs That Can Kill Agility @ Scale, with Ken Rubin –
- 08/19-Agile Experts Club – Exposing Uncomfortable Topics: Errors and Omissions with Scaling –
- LeSS Talks: 08/08 – Sorting Things Out: Design vs. Lean vs. System Thinking, with Tom Mellor –
- LUNCH & LEARN: EXPOSING UNCOMFORTABLE TOPICS: ERRORS AND OMISSIONS WITH SCALING –
- Lunch & Learn @ Siemens: Exposing Uncomfortable Topics: Errors and Omissions with Scaling –
- LeSS Talks: July 18: Leveraging LeSS Org Design to Build Competence & Coaching Practice –
- LeSS Talks: July 10: Teamwork, great collaboration and performance, for the whole organization, with Ari Tikka –
- Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Roman Pichler –
- Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Bob Schatz (CST) –
- Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Mike Cohn –
- Make Your Coaching Organization Into A Role Model For The Rest Of Your Organization –
- From Maximum Busy-Ness to Maximum Learning, with Esther Derby & Johanna Rothman –
- Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Tom Mellor (CST) –
- Transformations Gone Wrong: Erin Perry, JP White and Gene Gendel –
- LeSS Adoption Preparation References –
- LeSS Talks: May 22: Darwin Theory of Agile Coaching Evolution, with Ron Whitebread –
- 04/11 – LeSS Talks: Branching Strategy and CI/CD in Agile Development, with Thierry de Pauw –
- 03/14 – LeSS Talks: Johanna Rothman: How To Create a Career Ladder for Vertical and Lateral Movement –
- Changing Your Coaching Engagement Type –
- References & Assets To Share –
- 02/27 – LeSS Talks: Facilitating LeSS events virtually (using Miro, Mural) –
- DeveloperWeek2021: What is “UNDONE” Department And How To Eradicate It? –
- LeSS and SAFe: Understanding The Differences –
- 02/13-LeSS Talks: Co-Creator of Nexus (Richard Hundhausen) with LeSS Trainer (Greg Hutchings) –
- Use of Velocity in Complex Organizational Settings –
- 01/31 – LeSS Talks: Abusing Metrics for Dummies: How to manipulate data to make us look good? –
- 01/24-LeSS Talks: Experience Report: Navigating Self-Incorporated Consulting (Panel Discussion) –
- 01/15-LeSS Talks: System Modelling in LeSS with Robin Hyman –
- 01/10-LeSS Talks: Lead and Serve Others: Focus on the Team, Not Individuals, by Johanna Rothman –
2020
- 01/24-LeSS Talks: Experience Report: Navigating Self-Incorporated Consulting –
- 12/06-LeSS Talks: Using Product Canvas in LeSS Product Definition –
- Should Teams Use Kanban, Instead of Scrum or LeSS? –
- 12/13-LeSS Talks: Case study about a LeSS adoption in Business Lending, by Cesario Ramos –
- 12/06-LeSS Talks: US Army’s Intelligence Staff Director COL Candice Frost on Crisis & Leadership –
- Dec 3 – LeSS Talks: How To Identify Agile Masquerades: Errors and Omissions with Scaling @ LeSSDays –
- LESS TALKS: Uncovering the Agile Mindset, with Heidi Araya and John Turley –
- LeSS Review –
- LeSS Trainer’s Class Experience Report: Product Definition, DoD & Team ‘Blueprint’ Exercise –
- 11/18– LESS TALKS: Why Do Transformation Fail? Coordination Chaos, by Ari Tikka and Ran Nyman –
- Shu–Ha–Ri: The Misunderstood Journey of Mastery –
- Exposing Invisible Organizational Dynamics w/System Thinking & Modelling @ Agile KC –
- Word Play, Masquerades and Omissions with Scaling. Any Alternatives? –
- My CEC and CTC Journey –
- 10/13– LESS TALKS: System Modelling of HR-Related “Nuances” –
- 10/06– LESS TALKS: Growing teaminess – Canvas for self-managing teams –
- Coaching Tool/Technique: System Modelling (w/ Causal Loop Diagram – CLD) –
- OKR: Narrowing The Gap Between “O” and “KR” –
- 09/07– LESS TALKS: The Six Enablers of Business Agility, with Karim Harbott –
- Agile Poetry In Motion –
- SEPTEMBER 02-04: CERTIFIED LESS BASICS (CLB) COURSES | VIRTUAL –
- 09/01– LESS TALKS: Resilience of Organizational Design to Help You Through Tough Times & Beyond –
- Clarification Of Top-3 Misused [Frequently] Words –
- AUGUST 19-21: CERTIFIED LESS BASICS (CLB) COURSES | VIRTUAL –
- Exposing Uncomfortable Topics: Errors and Omissions with Scaling @ Smarter Enterprise Lean Agile – LeSS Toronto/Montreal/Ottawa Toronto, ON –
- 19-21: CERTIFIED LESS BASICS (CLB) COURSES | VIRTUAL –
- 08/17 – LESS TALKS: Focus on Customer Centric Products and Services, Not Transformation, with Tim Abbott –
- AUGUST 15-16: CERTIFIED LESS BASICS (CLB) COURSES | VIRTUAL –
- AUGUST 11-13: CERTIFIED LESS BASICS (CLB) COURSES | VIRTUAL –
- August 05-07: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- What is “UNDONE” Department And How To Eradicate It? @ Agility 2020 –
- Exposing Uncomfortable Topics: Errors and Omissions with Scaling @ TryScrum –
- 08/03 – LeSS Talks: COVID-related Opportunities & Risks: Hiring. Comp. Candidate’s Quality. –
- 07/30 – LESS TALKS: Agile in the Time of COVID: an AMA with Diana Larsen –
- From Customer Proximity, To Product Focus, To Team Design –
- JULY 22-24: CERTIFIED LESS BASICS (CLB) COURSES | VIRTUAL –
- 07/20 – LESS TALKS: Business Agility Aspect of LeSS Adoption: Outcome-Based Backlogs Drive Business –
- 07/14 – LESS TALKS: Have we just witnessed the transition to remote teams? No. Find out why. –
- Best Agile Articles of 2019: Proper Scaling of Scrum And Dynamic Financial Forecasting –
- 07/07 – LESS TALKS: Mix & Match Communication in Large Scale Lean & Agile Product Development –
- July 01-03: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- 07/02 – LESS TALKS: Why Is Independent Teams With Microservices a Bad Idea? –
- 06/23 – LESS TALKS: What is “UNDONE” Department And How To Eradicate It? –
- June 17-19: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- 06/18 – Exposing Uncomfortable Topics: Errors and Omissions with Scaling –
- 06/16 – LESS TALKS: Customer Proximity in LeSS –
- June 10-12: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- 06-11-2020-Large Scale Scrum Overview (J&J Agile CoP) –
- 06/09 – LESS TALKS: Never-ending saga with Estimation. Can LeSS help us debunk this? –
- June 1 – Overview of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) @Agile Practitioners Association of Nigeria –
- May 26-29: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- 05/28 – LeSS Adoption,Principles and Conditions for Success @ Adelaide (Australia) – Agile Community –
- 05/28 – How to Identify “Agile Masquerades”? What Alternatives Could We Offer Instead? @Agile Munich –
- 05/27 – LESS TALKS: Scaling Agile Monthly Meetup – South Florida Agile Association –
- May 20-22: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- ALI in partnership with Agile Beer presents: LeSS – A Descaling Framework –
- Development Company-to-Client Relationship in LeSS: What Do You Need To Know? (Presented @ ScrumDayUkraine) –
- May 12-14: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- LeSS Podcast: Large Scaled Scrum Adoption in Banking –
- 05/12 – LESS TALKS: Meet Diana Larsen: “How do limits empower your Agility?” –
- May 06-08: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- 05/05 – LESS TALKS: Dave Snowden: Answering Tough Questions (Q&A) –
- April 29 – May 1: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- LeSS Adoption Principles and Approach @ Enterprise Agile SF Bay Area –
- Classic Anti-Patterns During Scrum Events –
- April 20-22 & 22-24: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Courses | Virtual –
- How to Identify “Agile Masquerades”? What Alternatives Could We Offer Instead? –
- 04/20 – LESS TALKS: Dave Snowden: Rewilding Agile –
- April 15-17: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | Virtual –
- Exploring the Role of the Product Owner & Scrum Master through LeSS –
- 04/14 – LESS TALKS: CTO of JPMorgan – Sharing His Views About LeSS Experiments –
- Engaging and Being Engaged as a Professional Coach – Candid Advice for Coaches & Clients –
- April 09-10: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | Virtual –
- 04/07 – LESS TALKS: Irony With Fake LeSS (is_Scrum) Adoption, with Dr. Wolfgang Richter, CLT –
- April 02-03: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | Virtual –
- 03/31 – LESS TALKS: An introduction to Beyond Budgeting – Business Agility in practice, with Bjarte Bogsness –
- 03/30 – LESS TALKS: Virtual Collaboration & Facilitation Lab – Part 2 –
- March 26-27: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | Virtual –
- Common Misconceptions About Agile Multi-team Software Development –
- 03/24 – LESS TALKS: Virtual Collaboration & Facilitation Lab – Part 1 –
- 03/17 – LESS TALKS:: LeSS Experiments, Described From non-LeSS Perspective, by CIO –
- 03/03 – LESS TALKS: “What is Your Product?”, with Ellen Gottesdiener –
- Some Best Coaches May Face Some Biggest Challenges. Why? –
- 03/03 – LESS TALKS: Meet Ron Jeffries & Chet Hendrickson @ LeSS NYC (‘Dark Scrum’ and more…) –
- 02/27 – LESS TALKS: Q & A on “The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste”, with Evan Campbell –
- Discussion of Two Agile Coaches (Erin Perry & Gene Gendel): Uncomfortable Topics Addressed –
- 02/18 – LESS TALKS: Tsvi Gal, CIO/CTO @ multiple Fin-Techs: sharing experiences about organizational agility –
- 02/11 – LESS TALKS: Nicolas M. Chaillan, US Air Force Chief Software Officer On Technology Agility, Scaling and More –
- Run This Method Through Organizational Compiler –
2019
- 11/13 – LESS TALKS: NYC LeSS CLP and Meet-Up with Craig Larman –
- About Contracts That Support Agile Ways of Working –
- Thoughts by Rick Waters, CST –
- 07/30 – LESS TALKS: Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution – Continued –
- Guidelines to hiring a professional Coach –
- Why Is LeSS Authentic? Why Should Leadership NOT Exempt Itself from Learning LeSS? –
- Not All Scrum Anti-Patterns Are Easily Identifiable –
- 06/13 – LESS TALKS: Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution –
- May 19-22: Global Scrum Alliance Gathering | AUS-TX –
- May 15-16: Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) | NYC –
- May 15-17: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course & MeetUp with Craig Larman | NYC –
- 2019 Big Apple Scrum Day Coaching Clinic – Highlights –
- 2019 BIG APPLE SCRUM DAY: COACHING CLINIC (COACHES WORKSHEET) –
- Tips To Run ‘Big’ Retrospectives –
- HR-Related LeSS Experiments – Deciphered –
- BABA Meetup – Does Agile Really Work in Sales? –
- 02/07 – LESS TALKS: MEETUP – Scrum Master, F/T Role @ JPMorgan –
- Survival List to Vendor Selection on Agile Projects –
- Mentor-Guided LeSS Case Study Writing Experience Report –
2018
- November 17: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | NYC –
- 11/01 – LESS TALKS: MEETUP – Tracing Local Optimizations throughout the System –
- Prince 2 and Agile: any Relationship? –
- September 17-19th: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course With Bas Vodde | NYC –
- Sept 13 -14 | 3rd Global LeSS Conference | NYC –
- August 25: Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) Course | NYC –
- May 30th-June 1st: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course With Craig Larman | NYC –
- Centralized vs. Decentralized Coaching –
- 2018 BIG APPLE SCRUM DAY: COACHING CLINIC –
- 2018 BUSINESS AGILITY CONFERENCE – NYC –
- 2018 BIG APPLE SCRUM DAY: COACHING CLINIC (Coaches Worksheet) –
- Proper Scaling of Scrum and Dynamic Financial Forecasting –
2017
- December 6th-8th: Certified LeSS Practitioner Course With Craig Larman | NYC –
- NYC Salary History Ban – What Does it Mean? –
- Addressing Problems, Caused by AMMS –
- 10/13 – LESS TALKS: MEETUP – Working LeSS Brings Great Results (Case Study) –
- How Detailed Should Business Requirements Be? Discovery Through Agile Gaming. –
- What Should Agile Leadership Care About? –
- Diagnosing Challenges in Scrum –
- Parallel Organization, As a Sushi Roll –
- “Who are the Judges?” Who Decides on Who is Gonna Coach? –
- LeSS “Construction”: What is it like? –
- You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” –
- Grassroots of Modern Command & Control Behavior –
- Bad Choice of Verbs Associated with “Agile”, by EFL People –
- 05/26-28: Scrum Coaching Retreat | Kiev, Ukraine –
- Sprint Length: Who Decides? How? Why? –
- Are there better ways to teach? –
- 2017 Agile Maine Day Recap –
- 2017 Big Apple Scrum Day: Coaching Clinic –
- Agile Flyer – 04-09-2017 –
- Applying LeSS Thinking to Basic Scrum –
- Agile Flyer – 03-25-2017 –
- 03/23 – LESS TALKS: Meetup – “Why are there so many attempts to ‘modify’ LeSS?” –
- Agile Flyer – 03-18-2017 –
- Challenges with Agile Training: Examples, Reasons, Consequences –
- Agile Flyer – 03-10-2017 –
- The “R” part of HR –
- 2017 Business Agility Conference – NYC –
- Agile Flyer – 02-05-2017 –
- Product Development Types: What Challenges to Expect in Each Case? –
- Agile Flyer – 01-08-2017 –
2016
- Agile Role: Product Manager –
- Agile Flyer – 12-24-2016 –
- Dec 19-21, 2016. LeSS in New York: CLP Class & Meetup –
- Agile Coach / Senior Scrum Master Role –
- Agile Flyer – 12-04-2016 –
- Agile Flyer – 12-04-2016 –
- 11/30-12/2 – Certified Agile Leadership (CAL) Class in Orlando –
- Agile Flyer – 11-24-2016 –
- “Give Thanks For Scrum 2016” in Boston –
- Agile Flyer – 11-14-2016 –
- How to Cultivate T-Shaped Developers? –
- LeSS Talks: Enterprise Scrum, by Mike Beetle (Agile Manifesto Co-Signer) –
- October 18 – LeSS Talks: LeSS PBR Session Simulation, with User Story Mapping –
- September 13 – LeSS Talks: LeSS Conference in Amsterdam: Lessons Learned –
- August 30-31st: The 1st Large Scale Scrum Conference in Amsterdam –
- August 23 – LeSS Talks: Agile Budgeting & Finances: unveiling conventional management mistakes –
- Extending Agile Manifesto –
- Quotes from: Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential, by Bjarte Bogsnes –
- Handling Interruptions in Scrum –
- August 4 – LeSS Talks: Most Common Challenges in Product Ownership –
- “Who Moved My Cheese?”: Rethinking RACI –
- July 7-8: Certified Scrum Product Owner Course with ScrumInc –
- July 7 – LeSS Talks: Framing a perspective: LeSS, Nexus, Scrum @ Scale, SAFe –
- Managing Performance by Extrinsic “Motivation” –
- 2016 Big Apple Scrum Day Coaching Clinic | NYC –
- May 11 – LeSS Talks: Coordination and Management in Large Scale Scrum –
- SAFe: Market Share Increase. Rapid Growth. What is the recipe? –
- From LeSS Toolbox: Causal Loop Diagrams to visualize System Dynamics –
- Global SCRUM GATHERING® Orlando 2016 –
- April 16 – LeSS Talks: Discovery of System Relationships with Causal Loop Diagrams –
- APRIL 6TH-8TH: CERTIFIED LESS PRACTITIONER COURSE WITH CRAIG LARMAN | NYC –
- March 29th -LeSS Talks: Agility at Scale: Component vs. Feature Teams in LeSS –
- March 15 – LeSS Talks: LeSS Overview and Q&A –
- “How to make your teams faster” – with Dr Jeff Sutherland & Scrum Inc –
- Smart Competitive Bidding by Western Software Companies: How To Win And Not Lose? –
- The Nureva™ Span™ ideation system –
- Artificial Ring-Fencing And Separating Walls Crumble, Eventually –
- Coach’s Experience Report: Putting LeSS Teachings to Work –
- Quotes from “Get Rid of the Performance Review!: How Companies Can Stop Intimidating, Start Managing–and Focus on What Really Matters” by Culbert, Samuel A. & Laurence Rout –
- Quotes from: ““Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes” by Alfie Kohn –
- WaTerFall requirements in Agile Product Development???… –
- January 2016 CLP/CLE LeSS Newsletter –
- The Fallacy of Red, Amber, Green Reporting: Take It From Pilots –
- Agile Coaching – Lessons from the Trenches –
- Agile Estimating and Planning: Planning Poker – Mike Cohn Front Row Agile –
- Bad Smells: Appraisals and Performance Reviews Influenced by Agile Coaches –
- Unspoken Agile Topics –
- Non-IT Kanban Implementation at Scale –
- Your Company Hired A Coach. What Should You Expect? –
- Motivation 3.0 Is Required to Transition from Tribe Stage 3 to Tribe Stage 4 –
- Scrum and Kanban at the Enterprise and Team Levels –
- Handling Interruptions in Scrum: 4 Options (Part 2) –
- Handling Interruptions in Scrum: 4 Options (Part 1) –
- Long-Term Strategic Planning: Epic-Level Estimation –
- Reviews, Appraisals and Incentives –
- From Tickets to Trust: How Jira’s Issue Model Enables Lean, Transparent Software Delivery –