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Upcoming classes: 04/02-03 – Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Basics (CLB) – Virtual 04/09-10 – Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Basics (CLB) – Virtual  

Please meet Isaac Sacolick – Best Selling Author, Top 100 Social CIO / CDO, Digital Transformation Influencer. Agile, DevOps, Data Science Innovator. Isaac – held multiple CIO at a number of organizations, including McGraw Hill – Construction. Slide Deck used Today, Isaac is the founder and President of StarCIO, a services company that guides client … Read more

“This is not true Scrum!!!” – we often hear from people, pointing at omissions and pitfalls of fake Scrum implementations.  The list of classically seen Scrum anti-pattern could become pretty exhaustive.  Here are some examples of  “Dark Scrum” (as Ron Jeffries puts it): Multiple people playing the role of Product Owner No Scrum Master present … Read more

On June 13, Gordon Weir delivered his great presentation “Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution” at NYC Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) meetup. Here are some of the key points made in the presentation: In 2006, there was a decision made to stop using the concept of a ‘project’, as this … Read more

Another mind-blowing and core-beliefs-challenging performance has been delivered by Craig Larman – the co-founder of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS).  This time, the class size has reached it’s record high (40 people), coming from various parts of the globe, representing different organizations, industries and cultures.  The walls of the biggest available, so far, training auditorium were … Read more

Tweet Another Certified Large Scale Scrum Basics is compete! Such an engaging and participating crowd!!!  Tons of provocative questions and complex organizational scenarios. Some most intriguing and and actively discussed topics: Seeing and Hearing Local Optimization Feature Teams vs. Component Teams Mentor-ship vs. Ownership Individual motivation Organizational Design implications on LeSS adoption Organizational De-scaling as means … Read more

  This class brought together people of different skill set and domain expertise: hands-on software engineers, managers and analysts, agile coaches, trainers and Scrum Masters. It was a high-pace introductory review of LeSS framework, with the focus on organizational design, system dynamics, LeSS principles/rules/guides, local optimization vs. global optimization, feature vs. component teams, LeSS roles … Read more