On February 11, 2020, NYC Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) meetup was honored to host the event for a special guest-speaker Nicolas Chaillan – the first Air Force Chief Software Officer. Nicolas is also the co-lead for the Department of Defense Enterprise DevSecOps Initiative with the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer. His full bio is available … Read more
Tweet Running this method through an “organizational compiler” may improve health of your organization: (variables are “globally declared” and clickable hyperlinks. You can pass any arguments to this method, as long as they are valid arguments 🙂 ) public class LegacyOrganizationalEcosystem { public static void main(String[] args){ if((agile_framework == this_framework{ System.out.println (“Simplify your organisation. Try … Read more
NYC LeSS Meetup with Craig Larman (Video Recording) Summary by a featured guest-blogger, Enterprise Strategy & Organizational Design expert and Certified LeSS Practitioner – David Stackleather. I had the opportunity to watch the NYC LeSS Meetup with Craig Larman via video. I attended one of these when Craig was in California, and have attended two … Read more
Rick Waters is a Business Agility Coach and Trainer, from Chicago, with more than 15 years of technical software development experience, and almost 10 years of Agile leadership experience. Rick primarily trains Scrum, Enterprise Scrum Business Agility, and Kanban. This is what Rick wrote, in support of the recently released book by Gene Gendel (Adaptive … Read more
This was the second great presentation by Gordon Weir who delivered part-2 of his “Real life “war story” of LeSS adoption at Large Financial Institution” at NYC Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) meetup. Please download Gordon’s Presentation (light on context, with very rich story behind) This time, the event was made available globally, by using Nureva … Read more
Let’s face it, today, finding an experienced and credible agile coach, is not easy. If you disagree with this statement, you are either very lucky and have special access to some great talent (e.g. referrals or networking) OR …..your perception of the role may need to change. There is no need to be ashamed of … Read more
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) is an agile framework that has a history of implementations, trials & errors, experiments and experience reports collected and documented throughout more than a decade. LeSS is Scrum, performed by multiple teams (2-8) that work on the same widely defined product, for the same Product Owner. LeSS stresses the importance of … Read more
An amazing 2019 Global Scrum Alliance Gathering (May 19-22), organized by SA staff that brought together a record-high number of professionals from around the globe and had countless amazing events – too many to describe them all in one newsletter. 🙂 Here, I would like to recap what committed to my memory the most: Keynote … Read more
2019 Big Apple Scrum Day (BASD) was an amazing experience for many – again! The Coaches Clinic, supported by some top notch professionals in the industry, was one of the greatest hallmarks of the event – the tradition that has been maintained for the last 5 years. 2019 Big Apple Scrum Day 2018 Big Apple … Read more
Large Scale Scrum has a history of more than a decade. The first book about LeSS was published by C. Larman and B. Vodde (the co-creators of LeSS) in 2008. There were two more books on LeSS, subsequently written in 2010 and 2016. There is no surprise, why the collection of LeSS experiments from the … Read more
