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LeSS with Gene and James: Definition of Done (DoD) And Its Organizational Design Implications

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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

LeSS Talks: Empowered Product Teams; Let’s Revisit The NNPG, with Gordon Weir

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The New New Product Development Game (NNPG) [Takeuchi, Nonaka, 1986] introduced to a far greater audience what the most successful product companies were doing at the time. The research found that the most significant influence for successful products is the creation of teams that follow “a holistic or “rugby” approach—where a team tries to go … Read more

LeSS with Gene and James: From Component Teams to Feature Teams

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Two Certified LeSS Coaches and Trainers (Gene Gendel and James Carpenter) have exchanged the ideas on the subject “From Component Teams to Feature Teams: Slow Expansion vs. All At Once From Start”.  The whole recording is about 15 minutes long. If you are interested in LeSS training with James and/or Gene, please bookmark this page. … Read more

LeSS Talks: LeSS Experiments @ Start-Up Product Company, with David Nielsen

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Download Presentation Agenda: LeSS Experiments at a Product Start-up Company in Silicon Valley Team Self-Design Workshop & System Optimization Goal Workshop Result #1 – Whole Product Focus for Feature Teams Result #2 – Single Product Backlog & Product Owner Alignment with business objectives (OKRs) Observe alignments gained OKR Scoreboard Experiment LeSS Events Review Setup Review … Read more

Experience Report: Organizational Design & System Thinking Training with Craig Larman

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Experience Report by Vaibhav Gandhi: As a senior coach working in a large financial institution that is on a continuous improvement journey it is key to understand what does “good look like” from an organizational perspective. I tend to have these deep conversations with my coaching partner George Pefanis. One of his suggestions was to … Read more

FINALLY!!! “Agile Maturity Calculator” Has Arrived

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(click on the image to enlarge) Finally!!! – The magic formula to calculate AGILE MATURITY  LEVEL has arrived!  All we have to do, is to plug vanity metrics that we can easily collect throughout our organization – and the job is done: agility is measured! Unfortunately, NOT…So many companies tirelessly chase *measurable outcomes*, OKRs, KPIs, … Read more