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ADVANCED LEARNING:
Organizational Design & System Thinking
Executive Management & Business Agility

(by Certified LeSS Coaching Company)

 

  • Friday, 07/18 – Business Value Estimation with Chris Sims
  • Friday, 08/08 – Is the “Product Manager” Title Still Meaningful? – with Jordan Bergtraum

Recent Posts

  • Before You Cancel Out Agile Coaching And Say “Agile Is Dead” – Read This! July 2, 2025
  • Dhaval & Gene: Evolution of Agility June 30, 2025
  • 10 Signs That Your Agile Transformation is NOT an “Agile Theater” June 28, 2025
  • Local Optimization: Fragmented Agility. Root Causes. Consequences. June 28, 2025
  • Fair, Critical Review of “Becoming a Product Coach” by SVPG June 24, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Generative vs Prescriptive: Comparing Agile Scaling Frameworks w/ Dhaval Panchal June 20, 2025
  • Can LeSS Help Dealing With DOGE Without Painful RIFs? June 14, 2025
  • “Agile Coaches Are Not Product Coaches” – Repercussions of a False Dichotomy Explained June 14, 2025
  • Dependency Management Is Wasteful June 12, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Amazon’s Product Operating Model: A Peek Behind The Curtain, with James Gunaca June 6, 2025
  • LeSS Works: System Modelling: Understanding PI Planning Shortfalls And Finding Alternatives May 23, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Using System Thinking & Modelling to Solve Tough Organizational Problems, with Gene Gendel May 2, 2025
  • Avoid False Equivalency In Selecting Your Guides April 26, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: AI is Going to Take All the Jobs… Or Is It?, with Dr. Bob Schatz April 25, 2025
  • What Is Your “Product” Operating Model? April 11, 2025
  • Agile Theater Chaos April 6, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Career Paths on Fire: How Tweaking HR Practices Supercharged Our Scaling Effort April 4, 2025
  • LeSS Works: Maria Paz Andrade: Beyond the Product Team: Rethinking Product Ownership March 28, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Jim Benson: Beyond Silos – Visualizing Work for Flow, Collaboration March 21, 2025
  • Business Agility (as a part of Organizational Agility) AND Business Resilience March 19, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Eylul Cesmeci: Surviving the AI Disruption When AI Leads, Does Agile Follow? February 28, 2025
  • Synchronized Sprint Cadence: Thoughtful Decision or Cargo Cult? February 21, 2025
  • (UN)FITNESS PARADOX: Why Scrum and LeSS May Not Fit Your Organization? February 21, 2025
  • Dhaval Panchal & Gene Gendel AM Coffee Chat: Plan- vs. Results-Driven Orgs February 17, 2025
  • Bringing It All Together: Developers “Shape” (I,T,M), DSEM and FTAM February 16, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Karen Kemerling, PhD: Psychological Safety: Foundation of High Performing Teams February 14, 2025
  • Practice What You Preach – Coach & Trainer Wants to Play Product/Manager Owner Role February 14, 2025
  • Large Scale Scrum (LeSS): Business Adaptiveness & Resilience February 9, 2025
  • Organization Improvements: Therapy Or Surgery? It Is Your Choice. February 8, 2025
  • Thought of The Week: Absolute vs. Relative Estimation February 2, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Michal Epstein: Agile Transformations In The Biotech Industry January 23, 2025
  • Future of Product Development: From Fake Productization Saga to Truly Product-Centric Organizations January 22, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Johanna Rothman: Fake “Agile” is the Norm – How to Instill Agility, not Agile January 10, 2025
  • Beyond Agile Theater with Gene Gendel: Product Centricity (Hosted by Andy Cleff) January 10, 2025
  • LeSS Talks: Managing AI: Turning Data, Drama, Deadlines into Deliverables, with Bob Schatz December 13, 2024
  • Avoiding False Dichotomy: “If We Are Agile, We Are Not CMMI Compliant”. December 4, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Life Cycle of “Agile Power Tower”. EoL Expectations. Alternatives. December 3, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Embracing Brazilian and Portuguese Agile Communities November 29, 2024
  • BayALN: Demystifying Agile Industrial Complex: Errors & Omissions with Scaling November 18, 2024
  • Agile Share & Care: Should everything really be “a Product”? (What Is Fake “Productization”?… and how to avoid it) November 17, 2024
  • LeSS Works: Agile Sustainability: our responsibility, with Ines Garcia November 8, 2024
  • Future of Product Development: From Fake Productization Saga to Truly Product-Centric Organizations October 29, 2024
  • Scrum Master’s Resume To Steer Away From October 21, 2024
  • What Should A Good Scrum Master Know? SM “Stories”. October 21, 2024
  • LeSS Works: Continuous Improvement inspired by LeSS experiments, with Yi Lv October 17, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Why ATDD Is Important In A Multi-Team Environment, with Markus Gaertner October 4, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Agility at University. It’s Impact on Corporate World, with Rosie Hauck, PhD September 19, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Business Agility, as a part of Organizational Agility September 10, 2024
  • One Of The Best Maturity Metrics: Why should DoR “shrink” and DoD expand? August 9, 2024
  • Modern Software Engineering Building Better Software Faster, with Dave Farley July 18, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Scrum Beers Halifax: About LeSS, without saying “LeSS” June 18, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Can You Really Be Agile If You Are Afraid Of Your Code?, with Asaf Ronen June 14, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Not So Extreme Programming, with Amitai Schleier May 10, 2024
  • Gradual Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR) May 5, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: The Truth About Change Resistance And How to Overcome It, with Cherie Silas April 26, 2024
  • Important Organizational Enablers of Deep Systemic Improvements (e.g. LeSS Adoption) April 21, 2024
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  • LeSS Talks: HR. Budgeting. [De]Scaling, with David West, Scrum.org CEO & PO April 4, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: You and AI: Navigating an Uncertain Job Market, with Heidi Araya March 22, 2024
  • Building Great Products with RIGHT!!! People – Chet Hendrickson & Hugo Lourenco March 15, 2024
  • Interview with Michael James (MJ): Scrum Master Checklist Author March 8, 2024
  • 10 Common Mistakes With LeSS Adoptions February 20, 2024
  • Organizational Design, with Lance Rochelle – Distinguished Engineer at Large Bank February 9, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Impact of AI on HR, with Dave Snowden January 19, 2024
  • LeSS Talks: Agile Sustainability, with Jutta Eckstein December 15, 2023
  • Dec 11-13: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC December 13, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Beyond Budgeting – Business agility in Practice, with Bjarte Bogsnes December 7, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: The Balance between Alignment and Autonomy, with Mark Bregenzer November 24, 2023
  • Job Retention & Job Security: AI, HR, Budgeting November 10, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Designing Agile Ecosystems with Org Topologies, by A. Krivitsky & R. Flemm November 3, 2023
  • LeSS Works: Tangible Software Quality, with Gojko Adzic October 27, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: The “Impossible” LeSS Adoption (remote experience), with Błażej Drobniuch October 20, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Ending the Age of Misery, by Andy Hunt ( Agile Manifesto Co-Creator) September 14, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Shift From Frantic and Stressful to Focused and Strategic PBR September 8, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Meeting with CEO of the LeSS Company – Bastiaan van Hamersveld August 17, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Maximizing Dependencies with Interdependent Teams, with Bas Vodde August 10, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: GLAD Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Organizational Design with Craig Larman July 12, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: How 17 Techies Changed The World: (Agile Manifesto History, by Jim Highsmith) June 23, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Systemic Adaptiveness of Ukrainian People During Crisis, with O. Buratynskyi May 12, 2023
  • Optimizing Your Organizational Structure For Agility, with Wolfgang Steffens April 21, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Output of SW developer: is knowledge, NOT code!, with Viktor Grgic April 13, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: “Inspire Agile Transformation from Bottom-Up“ LeSS Experiments @ German Company with Sofia Pelzl March 28, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: GEMBA SPRINT Go, See and Do!, with Ahmad Fahmy March 10, 2023
  • Another False Dichotomy? Do You Really HAVE to choose between Scrum and XP? February 26, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT, with Columbia Professor Chuck Garcia February 24, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Jon Kern February 15, 2023
  • LeSS Works: Conversation With Agile Manifesto Co-Creator – Uncle Bob Martin January 26, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Professor Snowden, Answering Tough Questions For: Individuals, Companies, Industry January 25, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Why Agile Roles Are Being Eliminated? What Are Systemic Root Causes Of This? January 22, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Communicate in Code & Integrate Continuously January 22, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Internal [Unintentional] Distortions of LeSS January 20, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Navigating the LeSS Complete Picture January 17, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Agile Transformation And The Elephant In The Room, with Bjarte Bogsnes January 10, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Don’t Confuse Prioritization and Clarification January 9, 2023
  • LeSS 5000: Community Success Index January 3, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: Should Design Teams Sprint Separately From Feature/Product Teams? January 3, 2023
  • LeSS with Gene and James: LeSS Training Alone Is Not Enough January 2, 2023
  • LeSS Talks: EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT, with Columbia Professor Chuck Garcia December 27, 2022
  • LeSS with Gene and James: Focusing on Fundamentals. Reducing “Second Market” Frameworks. December 26, 2022

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  • Trust, Care, and Love June 12, 2025
    Build the culture of Trust, Care, and Love for the shared mental and physical space. Five significant patterns that are essential for group dynamics in teams. They happen all the time and have an essential function in the beginning. Skillfully facilitating them, again and again, will gradually develop a culture of Trust, Care, and Love […]
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  • The Hidden Cost of High Performance - Why optimizing teams in isolation can cripple organizational outcomes May 19, 2025
    The Parts vs. System Paradox “Changing parts will have little impact on the system. But changing interactions or purpose can create a massive impact.” — Steven Schuster Systems thinkers have long understood this. So why do many organizations still obsess over optimizing individual teams — driving up local efficiency while system-wide performance stagnates or declines? […]
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  • What Is Your “Product” Operating Model? April 25, 2025
    📢 Special Event: On May 2, please attend this free webinar "Using System Thinking & Modelling to Solve Tough Organizational Problems", delivered by Certified LeSS Trainer and Coach Gene Gendel and hosted by Lean, Agile and Large-Scale Product Development (LeSS) Global Community. Some of your pressing questions could be asked there! What is your “Product” […]
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  • AI-supported Org Design April 15, 2025
    AI, of course, can be used to improve the performance of individual single-skilled specialists, and this is what we see as of 2025, but there is a large landscape. Let me share. AI-Supported Org Design (“AI OD” for short) will be becoming a hugely impactful topic affecting all of us and all the organizations in […]
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  • Requirement Areas March 21, 2025
    In the last months, I’ve had many conversations in the LeSS community as well as in the product I work for, about Requirement Areas. From those discussions, I’ve discovered new ways of explaining them. Here, I’d like to share some of these. What are Requirement Areas? Requirement Areas is a grouping of items on the product […]
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