Has your organization decided that it no longer wishes to be fooled by the “Agile Theater” that peppers tens of thousands of people with shallow, superficial and fake changes? Do you feel that you wish to improve your organizational design more systemically, by bringing delivery people closer to users/stakeholders/customers, while reducing redundant org layers? Great! … Read more
Materials: LeSS Adoption @ Large Server Hardware Company Case Study Presenter’s contact information: LinkedIn Presenter’s LeSS training listing.
What we have covered (~13 minutes): Where do great Product Owners and Area Product Owners come from? What are some of the most classic omissions with selecting candidates for the roles? Addressing the issue from the standpoint of product centricity and organizational design
The New New Product Development Game (NNPG) [Takeuchi, Nonaka, 1986] introduced to a far greater audience what the most successful product companies were doing at the time. The research found that the most significant influence for successful products is the creation of teams that follow “a holistic or “rugby” approach—where a team tries to go … Read more
Download Materials The speaker Leor Herzfeld can be contacted here.
(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
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
Additional References: Coaching Tool/Technique: System Modelling (w/ Causal Loop Diagram – CLD) LESS TALKS: System Modelling of HR-Related “Nuances” System Thinking & Modelling (reference library)
Related reading: Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR) When a team is not able to deliver a product increment (PSPI) at the end of a sprint, we should not automatically assume that its developers poorly estimated, refined or planned their work. There could be other reasons. In fact, there are many teams that … Read more
