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Common Misconceptions About Agile Multi-team Software Development

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Michael Jamesis a software process mentor, team coach, and Scrum trainer with skills in Product Ownership (business), Scrum Mastery (facilitation), and the development team engineering practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming) that allow Scrum to work. MJ has been involved with LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) longer than anyone else on the US West Coast. … Read more

03/24 – LESS TALKS: Virtual Collaboration & Facilitation Lab – Part 1

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Presentation slides This session was the first one in a series of experiential sessions designed to help you navigate complexity of collaboration in a virtual space. The original agenda was, as follows: How can you keep it simple? What on-line collaboration tools are available for free or low cost? What’s useful in your Scrum events, … Read more

03/17 – LESS TALKS:: LeSS Experiments, Described From non-LeSS Perspective, by CIO

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Please meet Isaac Sacolick – Best Selling Author, Top 100 Social CIO / CDO, Digital Transformation Influencer. Agile, DevOps, Data Science Innovator. Isaac – held multiple CIO at a number of organizations, including McGraw Hill – Construction. Slide Deck used Today, Isaac is the founder and President of StarCIO, a services company that guides client … Read more

03/03 – LESS TALKS: “What is Your Product?”, with Ellen Gottesdiener

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Presentation on Slideshare To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?” Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs … Read more

Some Best Coaches May Face Some Biggest Challenges. Why?

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Have you ever found yourself in a situation, where you feel that you have so much great value to bring to your potential client, that you are so much better than anyone else they may have considered for the role so far …. yet, a client is hesitant to bring you in. Why?  First, You … Read more

03/03 – LESS TALKS: Meet Ron Jeffries & Chet Hendrickson @ LeSS NYC (‘Dark Scrum’ and more…)

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Tweet First and most importantly: Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson are long time friends and colleagues who both had a huge impact on what defines AGILITY. About Ron: Ron Jeffries is author of Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, the senior author of Extreme Programming Installed, and was the on-site XP coach for the original Extreme … Read more

02/27 – LESS TALKS: Q & A on “The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste”, with Evan Campbell

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Recently, Evan  Campbell wrote an article The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste.  It resonated strongly with  many people. This LinkedIn feed alone attracted more than 23,000 viewers and it is growing. On February 27, Evan was a guest-speaker at Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) meetup of NYC, answering questions about his views and the writing.  The … Read more

Discussion of Two Agile Coaches (Erin Perry & Gene Gendel): Uncomfortable Topics Addressed

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Tweet Erin Perry and Gene Gendel (his site) have known each other for almost a decade through past work and continuous networking.  They both had agreed to have a candid talk about some of their personal work experiences.  The whole recording is about 35 minutes. But there is no fluff. This is slides-free dialogue of two … Read more

02/18 – LESS TALKS: Tsvi Gal, CIO/CTO @ multiple Fin-Techs: sharing experiences about organizational agility

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Tweet Tsvi Gal is an accomplished technology business leader, the winner of the Einstein Award for technology excellence.  Tsvi had served as CTO and CIO at a number of large enterprises: Morgan Stanley, Bridgewater Associates, Deutsche Bank Investment Banking, Time Warner Music Group and other companies.  Tsvi has extensive experience in technology and operations, mostly … Read more