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Two Certified LeSS Coaches and Trainers (Gene Gendel and James Carpenter) have exchanged the ideas on the subject “Definition of Done (DoD) And Its Organizational Design Implications”. The whole recording is about 15 minutes long. This is what they discussed: DoD as a maturity ‘metric’ DoD – shared by multiple teams in large scale product development … Read more
Related reading: Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR) When a team is not able to deliver a product increment (PSPI) at the end of a sprint, we should not automatically assume that its developers poorly estimated, refined or planned their work. There could be other reasons. In fact, there are many teams that … Read more
LeSS Adoption Journey Map | LeSS Product Expansion Worksheet Virtual Events in LeSS | System Modelling Exercises | LeSS “Onion” Feature Team Primer | Agile Contracts Primer This summary, is an experience report from the recently conducted online LeSS class (provisional CLP). Specifically, this writing is about a few discussion topics, accompanied by in-class exercises … Read more
Participate in LinkedIn Discussion What is Cargo Cult? It is a term used to describe certain religious movements that emerged primarily in Melanesia, particularly during and after World War II. These movements arose when indigenous populations, observing the influx of material goods (“cargo”) brought by Westerners, believed that these goods were of divine origin. In … Read more
There are lot of discussions about capabilities (technical, business domain) and maturities of developers and entire teams that gets circulated today. Sometimes, information is too confusing and terminology gets mixed up. This summary is an attempt to pull together a few very important concepts and make them easy for everyone to follow. Feature Team Adoption … Read more
How often do we hear inspirational-motivational speeches from C-level executives, when they present at a town hall? Their reassurance about being on the same page about goals, mission, vision, alignment on strategy and execution is usually so strong! They often talk about a successful transition to becoming a true customer-centric organization and winning hearts and … Read more
“Our organization is trying to become more agile and we are using agile frameworks to deliver products to our customers. Therefore, it is going to be practically impossible for us to meet CMMI requirements”. – WRONG! If your organization wants to become Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) compliant because of direct government mandates or because … Read more
How often do we hear inspirational-motivational speeches from C-level executives, when they present at a town hall? Their reassurance about being on the same page about goals, mission, vision, alignment on strategy and execution is usually so strong! They often talk about a successful transition to becoming a true customer-centric organization and winning hearts and … Read more
Related reading: Following FTAM By Expanding DoD VS. Becoming A Hostage To Traditional Org Structure. Maturity of Definition of Done (DoD) has been the area of focus for many teams and organizations. Expansion (maturation) of DoD can be aligned with a Feature Team Adoption Map (FTAM), and it is covered on this page. In … Read more
