Tweet David Snowden divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of Cognitive Edge and the founder and Director of the Centre for Applied Complexity at the University of Wales. His work is international in nature and covers government and industry looking at complex issues relating to strategy, organisational decision making and decision … Read more
Another engaging and highly interactive Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) virtual class is complete. People attended from many corners of the map: NY, NJ, FL, MO, IL, NC, Peru, Bangladesh. The students engaged in a highly interactive collaboration, with questions and exercises, using Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) technique, exploring the following topics: Agile Big-Bangs, Internal Contracts, Local Optimization, … Read more
The role of Product Owner and Scrum Master are very clearly defined in the Scrum Guide. But the guide does talk about these two roles in a context of complex organizational settings, where products are large and many people are involved in product development. What happens then? Presentation Slides Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) has some … Read more
An accomplished senior technology leader in the financial services industry, Al Youssef shares his views on some LeSS experiments. Play Recording below: Questions raised (copied verbatim from Zoom chat script): For enterprise projects, compare and contract LeSS vs SaFE 5.0 -Were the automated tests all functional? or did you also have performance testing? Did you … Read more
Another engaging and highly interactive Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) virtual class is complete. People attended from many corners of the map: UK, USA, Canada, Argentina, Spain, Kuwait, Australia. The students engaged in a highly interactive collaboration, with questions and exercises, using Causal Loop Diagram (CLD) technique, exploring the following topics: Agile Big-Bangs, Internal Contracts, Local … Read more
Dr. Wolfgang Richter is the founder and CEO of JIPP.IT GmbH (https://www.jipp.it/), an Agile Change Agency. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Certified LeSS Trainer (CLT) and Coach and works with Scrum and Agile Methods since 1998. He and his team specializes in improving processes and structures by using agile methods and principles. Agile … Read more
Another engaging and highly interactive Certified LeSS Basics (CLB) virtual class is complete. People attended from many corners of the map: London, NYC, Chicago, Sarajevo, Dayton, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Atlanta, Phoenix and Florida 04/09-10 – Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Basics (CLB) – Virtual 04/15-17 – Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Basics (CLB) – Virtual … Read more
Bjarte Bogsnes has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is a pioneer in the Beyond Budgeting movement, and has been heading up the implementation of Beyond Budgeting at Equinor (formerly Statoil), Scandinavia’s largest company. He led a similar initiative in Borealis in the mid-nineties, one of the companies that inspired the … Read more
One of the most powerful techniques to understand organizational design and dynamics is to model them, with your colleagues, in front of a white board. Not according to ‘best practices and cook books 😉 but based deep system thinking and shared understanding, by all participants. But what if you cannot get together in front of … Read more
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
