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  • Death by Powerpoint, by Bob Galen
  • Large-Scale Agile Design & Architecture: Ways of Working, by Craig Larman
  • Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You, by Joel Spolksy
  • Donning the agile camouflage: 5 ways to tell if you’re agile in name only, by Stephen Frein
  • The time has come to close the curtain on the Agile Theater, by Yuval Yeret
  • AGILE 2016 – Ron Jeffries & Chet Hendrikson – What is Wrong with Agile?, written by Dave Prior
  • Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year, by Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini
  • Dark Scrum, by Ron Jeffries
  • The Flaw at the Heart of Bimodal IT, by https://continuousdelivery.com/
  • What Gartner’s Bimodal IT Model Means to Enterprise CIOs”, by Bernard Golden
  • The Return of the Waterfall, by Kent Beck

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ADVANCED LEARNING:
Organizational Design & System Thinking
Executive Management & Business Agility

(by Certified LeSS Coaching Company)

 

  • Friday, May 23, 2025 – Gene Gendel: System Modelling: Understanding PI Planning Shortfalls And Finding Alternatives
  • Friday, June 6, 2025 – James Gunaca: Amazon’s Product Operating Model: A Peek Behind The Curtain

Recent Posts

  • LeSS Talks: Using System Thinking & Modelling to Solve Tough Organizational Problems, with Gene Gendel May 2, 2025
  • Avoid False Equivalency In Selecting Your Guides April 26, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: AI is Going to Take All the Jobs… Or Is It?, with Dr. Bob Schatz April 25, 2025
  • What Is Your “Product” Operating Model? April 11, 2025
  • Agile Theater Chaos April 6, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Career Paths on Fire: How Tweaking HR Practices Supercharged Our Scaling Effort April 4, 2025
  • LeSS Works: Maria Paz Andrade: Beyond the Product Team: Rethinking Product Ownership March 28, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Jim Benson: Beyond Silos – Visualizing Work for Flow, Collaboration March 21, 2025
  • Business Agility (as a part of Organizational Agility) AND Business Resilience March 19, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Eylul Cesmeci: Surviving the AI Disruption When AI Leads, Does Agile Follow? February 28, 2025
  • Synchronized Sprint Cadence: Thoughtful Decision or Cargo Cult? February 21, 2025
  • (UN)FITNESS PARADOX: Why Scrum and LeSS May Not Fit Your Organization? February 21, 2025
  • Dhaval Panchal & Gene Gendel AM Coffee Chat: Plan- vs. Results-Driven Orgs February 17, 2025
  • Bringing It All Together: Developers “Shape” (I,T,M), DSEM and FTAM February 16, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Karen Kemerling, PhD: Psychological Safety: Foundation of High Performing Teams February 14, 2025
  • Practice What You Preach – Coach & Trainer Wants to Play Product/Manager Owner Role February 14, 2025
  • Large Scale Scrum (LeSS): Business Adaptiveness & Resilience February 9, 2025
  • Organization Improvements: Therapy Or Surgery? It Is Your Choice. February 8, 2025
  • Thought of The Week: Absolute vs. Relative Estimation February 2, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Michal Epstein: Agile Transformations In The Biotech Industry January 23, 2025
  • Future of Product Development: From Fake Productization Saga to Truly Product-Centric Organizations January 22, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Johanna Rothman: Fake “Agile” is the Norm – How to Instill Agility, not Agile January 10, 2025
  • Beyond Agile Theater with Gene Gendel: Product Centricity (Hosted by Andy Cleff) January 10, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Managing AI: Turning Data, Drama, Deadlines into Deliverables, with Bob Schatz December 13, 2024
  • Avoiding False Dichotomy: “If We Are Agile, We Are Not CMMI Compliant”. December 4, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Life Cycle of “Agile Power Tower”. EoL Expectations. Alternatives. December 3, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Embracing Brazilian and Portuguese Agile Communities November 29, 2024
  • BayALN: Demystifying Agile Industrial Complex: Errors & Omissions with Scaling November 18, 2024
  • Agile Share & Care: Should everything really be “a Product”? (What Is Fake “Productization”?… and how to avoid it) November 17, 2024
  • LeSS Works: Agile Sustainability: our responsibility, with Ines Garcia November 8, 2024
  • Future of Product Development: From Fake Productization Saga to Truly Product-Centric Organizations October 29, 2024
  • Scrum Master’s Resume To Steer Away From October 21, 2024
  • What Should A Good Scrum Master Know? SM “Stories”. October 21, 2024
  • LeSS Works: Continuous Improvement inspired by LeSS experiments, with Yi Lv October 17, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Why ATDD Is Important In A Multi-Team Environment, with Markus Gaertner October 4, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Agility at University. It’s Impact on Corporate World, with Rosie Hauck, PhD September 19, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Business Agility, as a part of Organizational Agility September 10, 2024
  • One Of The Best Maturity Metrics: Why should DoR “shrink” and DoD expand? August 9, 2024
  • Modern Software Engineering Building Better Software Faster, with Dave Farley July 18, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Scrum Beers Halifax: About LeSS, without saying “LeSS” June 18, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Can You Really Be Agile If You Are Afraid Of Your Code?, with Asaf Ronen June 14, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Not So Extreme Programming, with Amitai Schleier May 10, 2024
  • Gradual Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR) May 5, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: The Truth About Change Resistance And How to Overcome It, with Cherie Silas April 26, 2024
  • Important Organizational Enablers of Deep Systemic Improvements (e.g. LeSS Adoption) April 21, 2024
  • (no title) April 15, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: HR. Budgeting. [De]Scaling, with David West, Scrum.org CEO & PO April 4, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: You and AI: Navigating an Uncertain Job Market, with Heidi Araya March 22, 2024
  • Building Great Products with RIGHT!!! People – Chet Hendrickson & Hugo Lourenco March 15, 2024
  • Interview with Michael James (MJ): Scrum Master Checklist Author March 8, 2024
  • 10 Common Mistakes With LeSS Adoptions February 20, 2024
  • Organizational Design, with Lance Rochelle – Distinguished Engineer at Large Bank February 9, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Impact of AI on HR, with Dave Snowden January 19, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Agile Sustainability, with Jutta Eckstein December 15, 2023
  • Dec 11-13: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC December 13, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Beyond Budgeting – Business agility in Practice, with Bjarte Bogsnes December 7, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: The Balance between Alignment and Autonomy, with Mark Bregenzer November 24, 2023
  • Job Retention & Job Security: AI, HR, Budgeting November 10, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Designing Agile Ecosystems with Org Topologies, by A. Krivitsky & R. Flemm November 3, 2023
  • LeSS Works: Tangible Software Quality, with Gojko Adzic October 27, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: The “Impossible” LeSS Adoption (remote experience), with Błażej Drobniuch October 20, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Ending the Age of Misery, by Andy Hunt ( Agile Manifesto Co-Creator) September 14, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Shift From Frantic and Stressful to Focused and Strategic PBR September 8, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Meeting with CEO of the LeSS Company – Bastiaan van Hamersveld August 17, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Maximizing Dependencies with Interdependent Teams, with Bas Vodde August 10, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: GLAD Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Organizational Design with Craig Larman July 12, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: How 17 Techies Changed The World: (Agile Manifesto History, by Jim Highsmith) June 23, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Systemic Adaptiveness of Ukrainian People During Crisis, with O. Buratynskyi May 12, 2023
  • Optimizing Your Organizational Structure For Agility, with Wolfgang Steffens April 21, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Output of SW developer: is knowledge, NOT code!, with Viktor Grgic April 13, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: “Inspire Agile Transformation from Bottom-Up“ LeSS Experiments @ German Company with Sofia Pelzl March 28, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: GEMBA SPRINT Go, See and Do!, with Ahmad Fahmy March 10, 2023
  • Another False Dichotomy? Do You Really HAVE to choose between Scrum and XP? February 26, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT, with Columbia Professor Chuck Garcia February 24, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Jon Kern February 15, 2023
  • LeSS Works: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Uncle Bob Martin January 26, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Professor Snowden, Answering Tough Questions For: Individuals, Companies, Industry January 25, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Why Agile Roles Are Being Eliminated? What Are Systemic Root Causes Of This? January 22, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Communicate in Code & Integrate Continuously January 22, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Internal [Unintentional] Distortions of LeSS January 20, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Navigating the LeSS Complete Picture January 17, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Agile Transformation And The Elephant In The Room, with Bjarte Bogsnes January 10, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Don’t Confuse Prioritization and Clarification January 9, 2023
  • LeSS 5000: Community Success Index January 3, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Should Design Teams Sprint Separately From Feature/Product Teams? January 3, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: LeSS Training Alone Is Not Enough January 2, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT, with Columbia Professor Chuck Garcia December 27, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Focusing on Fundamentals. Reducing “Second Market” Frameworks. December 26, 2022
  • 12/21- LeSS Talks: Understanding Organizations as a complex adaptive system, with Dave Snowden December 21, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Internal [Unintentional] Distortions of LeSS December 7, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Improving Quickly Requires Fixing Structure December 5, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Multi-Team Refinement November 29, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Selecting a LeSS Trainer November 22, 2022
  • Nov 15-17: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC November 17, 2022
  • Lunch & Learn @ Large Bank: LeSS Overview & Q&A November 14, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Structuring Agile Transformations November 13, 2022
  • Count Down Timer November 5, 2022
  • LeSS Talks: LeSS Adoption Large Server Hardware Company, with James Carpenter October 19, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Choice of Product Owner October 17, 2022

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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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  • From Silos to Synergy - Our Journey to One Product Backlog with LeSS February 13, 2025
    In this episode, we have the privilege of having Mauro Sacchi, an esteemed leader in digital R&D at Wärtsilä, whose innovative approach and vast experience in transforming traditional industries into agile powerhouses. I’m excited to share our transformation story at Wärtsilä, where we’ve embraced Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) principles to break down organizational silos and unlock […]
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  • LeSS Simulation - Create A City Guide December 15, 2024
    The LeSS City Guide Simulation is an interactive, hands-on activity designed to help participants experience the dynamics of multiple teams working together on a single product. In this updated version of the Nexus Zoo simulation, the focus is shifted to a practical project: creating a city guide for the city where the training is taking […]
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