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Can LeSS Help Dealing With DOGE Without Painful RIFs?
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
What Is Your “Product” Operating Model?
Tweet Analogy: Your Restaurant Experience By way of analogy, imagine you come to a restaurant and willing to spend a lot of money on a bowl of an expensive and exotic soup. You sit at a table and wait for your dish to be delivered. When a waiter comes, you see that on his tray, … Read more
LeSS Talks: Career Paths on Fire: How Tweaking HR Practices Supercharged Our Scaling Effort
Tweet Do you wish learn about how improved HR norms and policies can further improve your company’s internal dynamics, employees’ relationships, happiness and willingness to stay with the company? At Y-Soft, people have experimented with improving what has been historically “untouchable” and it made a lot of people happy. Please play the recording and review Materials/Principles … Read more
LeSS Talks: Eylul Cesmeci: Surviving the AI Disruption When AI Leads, Does Agile Follow?
Note: Please, use the materials to follow the discussion. Due to some technical difficulties, the recording captured, only the audience, not the presentation itself.
(UN)FITNESS PARADOX: Why Scrum and LeSS May Not Fit Your Organization?
Join LinkedIn Discussion Since the early 19th century, people have been using an idiomatic expression: “you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole“. What it means, essentially and metaphorically, is that something or someone is a misfit in a particular environment, situation, or role. For example, if a person describes himself as a … Read more
Practice What You Preach – Coach & Trainer Wants to Play Product/Manager Owner Role
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
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS): Business Adaptiveness & Resilience
What examples of resilience and survival of the fittest phenomenon do we know from the natural history of our planet? Remember what happened to animals during the Ice Age Era that was caused by an asteroid impact? There were some adaptive animals that migrated towards the equator, with warmer weather. They were able to change certain … Read more
Avoiding False Dichotomy: “If We Are Agile, We Are Not CMMI Compliant”.
“Our organization is trying to become more agile and we are using agile frameworks to deliver products to our customers. Therefore, it is going to be practically impossible for us to meet CMMI requirements”. – WRONG! If your organization wants to become Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) compliant because of direct government mandates or because … Read more