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Following FTAM By Expanding DoD VS. Becoming A Hostage To Traditional Org Structure

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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 Talks: German Big Insurance Case Study Discussion, with Wolfgang Steffens

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Case Study | Wolfgang Steffens – Author/Presenter | LinkedIn Profile Initial Questions Submitted to Wolfgang Steffens: Why in Faux (Fake) Scrum =”Scrum” with component teams, there a 1-to-1 ratio between a team and “PO”. Who and How was involved in defining Requirement Areas (RAs)? How were people chosen? Who validated that they were right people? … Read more

DCSUG: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams: Exposing Local Optimization

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Download Materials (DCSUG, UHC) References during the event: Feature Teams Primer Agile Contracts Primer Feature Teams Seeing (and Hearing) Local Optimization About Kanban(as an alternative) SAFe (References from: Agile Manifesto co-signers.  Scrum co-creators. Others.)   Additional references: Explore Training Classes on DE-scaling Join and support communities

“What is Parallel Organization?”, with Konstantin Ribel

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On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, the Twin Cities LeSS meetup (note: all past recordings of the meetup can be found here). hosted a great webinar with Konstantin Ribel – Certified Scrum Master and LeSS Trainer from Germany. The recoding and materials are below: Download materials In this webinar, Konstantin covered the following topics: The meaning … Read more