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

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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

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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

FINALLY!!! “Agile Maturity Calculator” Has Arrived

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(click on the image to enlarge) Finally!!! – The magic formula to calculate AGILE MATURITY  LEVEL has arrived!  All we have to do, is to plug vanity metrics that we can easily collect throughout our organization – and the job is done: agility is measured! Unfortunately, NOT…So many companies tirelessly chase *measurable outcomes*, OKRs, KPIs, … Read more

Feature Teams vs. Product Teams? Organizational Implications of False Dichotomy.

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This post is an extension of an older discussion and therefore, briefly, about the history: Back in 2019, the Founder and Partner of SVPG (Silicon Valley Product Group), Marty Cagan wrote the post “Product vs. Feature Teams”, where he defined two types of teams: product and feature, and then compared-contrasted them.  He also contrasted them … Read more

“Can We Measure Adaptiveness?”, with John Coleman

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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