One of the most powerful techniques to understand organizational design and dynamics is to model them, with your colleagues, in front of a white board. Not according to ‘best practices and cook books 😉 but based deep system thinking and shared understanding, by all participants. But what if you cannot get together in front of … Read more
Presentation on Slideshare To be product-aligned and customer-focused, everyone in your product development ecosystem needs to agree on the answer to the question, “What is Your Product?” Many organizations don’t have clarity on what their product or products are. Ambiguity and disagreement on the answer contribute to slow response to changing customer and market needs … Read more
Tweet First and most importantly: Ron Jeffries and Chet Hendrickson are long time friends and colleagues who both had a huge impact on what defines AGILITY. About Ron: Ron Jeffries is author of Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, the senior author of Extreme Programming Installed, and was the on-site XP coach for the original Extreme … Read more
Recently, Evan Campbell wrote an article on SolustionsIQ site: The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply Copy-Paste. It resonated strongly with many people. This LinkedIn feed alone attracted more than 23,000 viewers and it is growing. On February 27, Evan was a guest-speaker at Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) meetup of NYC, answering questions about his views and … Read more
Tweet Erin Perry and Gene Gendel (his site) have known each other for almost a decade through past work and continuous networking. They both had agreed to have a candid talk about some of their personal work experiences. The whole recording is about 35 minutes. But there is no fluff. This is slides-free dialogue of two … Read more
Tweet Tsvi Gal is an accomplished technology business leader, the winner of the Einstein Award for technology excellence. Tsvi had served as CTO and CIO at a number of large enterprises: Morgan Stanley, Bridgewater Associates, Deutsche Bank Investment Banking, Time Warner Music Group and other companies. Tsvi has extensive experience in technology and operations, mostly … Read more
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
Tweet One of a few under-served (ignored) dimensions of agile transformations that frequently limit chances for success is vendor management – and it can be traced back to legal contracts between a client company and supplier/vendor. Vendor management norms and guidelines define relationships and interaction between a company’s own employees and external workers, individually and … Read more
