Top 10 Typical Cases of Misunderstanding LeSS

Let’s press Control + Alt + Delete on most common LeSS misunderstanding. Many companies, in their attempts to become more product centric and customer-focused (THANKS!!!), jump on the idea of experimenting with Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), as the mechanism to deliver incremental value to their customers and users/stakeholders. However, due to the lack of qualified … Read more

LeSS Talks: LeSS Experiments @ Start-Up Product Company, with David Nielsen

Download Presentation Agenda: LeSS Experiments at a Product Start-up Company in Silicon Valley Team Self-Design Workshop & System Optimization Goal Workshop Result #1 – Whole Product Focus for Feature Teams Result #2 – Single Product Backlog & Product Owner Alignment with business objectives (OKRs) Observe alignments gained OKR Scoreboard Experiment LeSS Events Review Setup Review … Read more

Experience Report: Organizational Design & System Thinking Training with Craig Larman

Experience Report by Vaibhav Gandhi: As a senior coach working in a large financial institution that is on a continuous improvement journey it is key to understand what does “good look like” from an organizational perspective. I tend to have these deep conversations with my coaching partner George Pefanis. One of his suggestions was to … Read more

“Can We Measure Adaptiveness?”, with John Coleman

In this video, John Coleman of Xagility and Gene Gendel of KSTS consulting discuss important topics, such as the geographical restraint to agile adoption, whether LeSS is a framework and the importance of getting executives onboard with LeSS adoptions.   0:00 On the beginning of large scale scrum (LeSS) and his journey into LeSS 9:19 … Read more

DCSUG: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams: Exposing Local Optimization

Download Materials (DCSUG, UHC) References during the event: Feature Teams Primer Agile Contracts Primer Feature Teams Seeing (and Hearing) Local Optimization About Kanban(as an alternative) SAFe (References from: Agile Manifesto co-signers.  Scrum co-creators. Others.)   Additional references: Explore Training Classes on DE-scaling Join and support communities