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Product Owner’s Influence & Empowerment “Meter”

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When Organizations Get the Product Owner Role Wrong When organizations begin adopting lean, agile ways of working, there is usually a moment that quietly determines whether the entire effort has a real chance of succeeding or is already heading toward disappointment. Oddly enough, it is not the tooling decision, the framework selection, or even the … Read more

Before You Cancel Out Agile Coaching And Say “Agile Is Dead” – Read This!

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Are you an organization that is experiencing a fatigue of dealing with agile coaching roles saga, illustrated below, and trying to build an optimal and minimally necessary fleet of highly qualified and experienced coaches? Are you a highly qualified and experienced coach who is struggling to find your own ways for how to stand out … Read more

Dhaval & Gene: Evolution of Agility

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What does it mean to evolve? In this short talk, Dhaval and Gene discuss what has changed and what has remained the same. Companies that prioritize the development of internal software capabilities have performed better than those that treat IT as a standalone function. The implications of these organizational choices on people and their careers … Read more

Can LeSS Help Dealing With DOGE Without Painful RIFs?

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Hello USA! How is your organization dealing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative? On its surface, DOGE represents a well-intentioned drive to streamline federal operations, cut excess spending, and modernize information systems across agencies. By centralizing savings efforts and aiming for measurable performance improvements, DOGE has surfaced long-standing inefficiencies that warrant attention.  However, … Read more

Practice What You Preach – Coach & Trainer Wants to Play Product/Manager Owner Role

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LinkedIn Post I have spent more than 20 years of my career training and coaching agile, Scrum and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), to hundreds of teams and thousands of team members.  I have upskilled hundreds Scrum Masters and Product Owners.  Many of my students were also certified by me. Many senior executives have received my … Read more