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LeSS Talks: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Jon Kern
Download Materials Synopsis: Hear how Agile Manifesto Co-Author Jon Kern approaches software development. Jon will discuss the foundations he considers to be necessary for producing a successful software product. He will also touch on what he has recently discovered as a missing piece to his practice of helping teams become high-performing. Bio: Jon Kern – … Read more
LeSS Works: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Uncle Bob Martin
Recording Part 1 Recording Part 2 Download materials In this talk, Uncle Bob transports you into an alternate reality where he is your new CTO. This is what he expects from you. As you listen, notice how reasonable these expectations are to customers and users. Notice also how impossible they appear to programmers. … Read more
LeSS Talks: Professor Snowden, Answering Tough Questions For: Individuals, Companies, Industry
This topic was based on the questions, crowdsourced from the audience, for Professor Snowden. The questions covered: Complexity management vs. complexity reduction. This jives so much with dependency management vs. dependency reduction. Companies tend to skillfully MANAGE complexity and dependencies, with more tools, processes and processors, as opposed to reducing them. Any thoughts on this? … Read more
LeSS with Gene and James: Communicate in Code & Integrate Continuously
The following two LeSS guides for technical excellence are captured in LeSS book 1 and 2: Guide: Communicate in Code. This is the best way for developers to exchange information and understand each other’s work. Reading someone’s clean code and not having the need to be given additional interpretation of what the code means is … Read more
LeSS with Gene and James: Don’t Confuse Prioritization and Clarification
Source: Large-Scale Scrum: “More with LeSS”, page 178
LeSS Talks: Should Design Teams Sprint Separately From Feature/Product Teams?
Materials Sometimes, we see traditional component teams, adopting Scrum dynamics and trying to sprint within narrow dimensions of their component specialty. They [teams] go through ‘motions’ of sprinting (attending Scrum events, creating Scrum artifacts, assigning Scrum roles), yet at the end of a sprint, they are not able to deliver a PSPI. Such teams tend … Read more
LeSS with Gene and James: Focusing on Fundamentals. Reducing “Second Market” Frameworks.
Summary: Why do we need more fancy frameworks? Why not re-focus on having small successes with good-n-old fundamentals? The history of Agile Manifesto (AM) and Scrum has 20+ years. Yet, the % of companies that are consistent with basic principles of AM that can demonstrate rudimentary success with Scrum is still very low. These are … Read more
12/21- LeSS Talks: Understanding Organizations as a complex adaptive system, with Dave Snowden
Download Chat Script Synopsis: Understanding the organization as a complex adaptive system offers many opportunities to organizations to increase the rate of innovation and remove excessive costs by understanding what can actually managed. This session will provide some of the background principles to managing complexity and will also look at pragmatic methods and tools that … Read more
Lunch & Learn @ Large Bank: LeSS Overview & Q&A
Connect with Gene Download materials Feature Teams vs. Product Teams? Organizational Implications of False Dichotomy LeSS and SAFe: Understanding The Differences LeSS ‘Getting Started’ steps Product Discovery & Definition Workshop (download free templates) Virtual Events(Tips & Tricks) Self-Assessments Upcoming LeSS training You Get What you Ask For: Agile Coaches-“Centaurs” (about coaching & coaches) Global … Read more