Please, join Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Meet-Up group in NYC
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Bjarte Bogsnes (left) has a long international career, both in Finance and HR. He is currently heading up the Beyond Budgeting implementation at Statoil, Scandinavia’s largest company with operations in 36 countries and a turnover of 130 bn USD. On Fortune 500, the company was recently ranked #1 on Social responsibility and #7 on Innovation. Transparency … Read more
On Thursday, July 28th of 2016, there was a Americas Architecture Forum at Credit Suisse in NYC, with participation of Jeff Sutherland – the co-creator of Agile Manifesto and co-founder of Scrum and Co-author of The Scrum Guide. Below, are some additional artifacts that are available to everyone: Copy of “Shu-Ha-Ri of Scrum@Scale” presentation deck … Read more
On July 7th and 8th, in New York, there was Certified Scrum Product Owner Course delivered by two co-trainers: Avi Schenier, representing Jeff Sutherland’s company ScrumInc and Robin Dymon, CST from Innovel. The class (size of about two scrum teams) was engaged in heated discussions, practical exercises and games. I had the honor of attending and participating in the course and was … Read more
This event was about comparing and contrasting the following four known scaled agile frameworks: For LeSS (Craig Larman’s and Bas Vodde’s) For Nexus (Ken Schwaber’s) For Scrum @ Scale (Jeff Sutherland’s) For SAFe (Dean Leffingwell’s) The discussion was very engaging but conclusive and many topics remained to-be-discussed in a future. Below, please find the … Read more
“The idea of a merit rating is alluring. The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. The effect is exactly the opposite of what the words promise.” -Edward Deming, “Out of Crisis” This article took … Read more
Tweet First, we covered basic dynamics of Scrum (roles, artifacts, ceremonies). Then, we shifted gears to ‘activities on a typical project’ and the group 20, or so, did a “brain dump” of all possible activities they could think of at the moment. Then, we removed redundancies, cleaned up the board ….played “Who Stole my Cheese?” game, … Read more
Tweet IMPORTANT: >>> References (bottom of page) Some time ago, there was a webinar recorded by VersionOne: How to use SAFe® to Deliver Value at Enterprise Scale Q&A Discussion with Dean Leffingwell). If you fast-forward to about 23 min, 20 seconds into the recording, you will hear the following statement: “…We don’t typically mess with your organizational structure because … Read more
Introduction: When it comes to scaling, there is a common misconception that “bigger always means better”. This misconception is also traceable to agile arena, where companies look for ways to expand their agile practices beyond a single organizational domain (e.g. many teams, numerous departments, multiple lines of business, etc.). Usually, it is an existing (inherited) … Read more
It was a great event, with more than 1200 people attending from all over the world. Tons of great presentations and collaborative sessions. Below, are some captured moments with my peers and colleagues – the people that made my personal experience at the gathering so rich and memorable. The coaches and trainers of Scrum Alliance have always … Read more
Please, join Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Meet-Up group in NYC