Organizational Design

LeSS Talks: Designing Agile Ecosystems with Org Topologies, by A. Krivitsky & R. Flemm

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Download Materials Synopsis: The legacy of the original lightweight barely sufficient Agile ideas (namely XP and Scrum) has been impeded by the difficulties of applying them beyond a single team without losing the key principles and the promised gains. ​ Over the last decade, that challenge has led to a rose in heavy-weight methods, especially … Read more

LeSS Talks: Shift From Frantic and Stressful to Focused and Strategic PBR

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Download Materials   Synopsis: AVOID Projects being added to your “product” backlog TRY Starting with impact and outcome during ideation AVOID Trying to make everyone happy TRY Thinking about what you’re saying “no” to…when you say “yes” AVOID Starting/working on everything TRY Visualizing intake to surface tradeoff discussion TRY Rationalizing stakeholder requests with user/customer behaviors … Read more

LeSS Talks: GEMBA SPRINT Go, See and Do!, with Ahmad Fahmy

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Also, watch: “Introducing the Gemba Sprint” (4 min) Synopsis: If teams are self-managing, why do you need managers? This was the question that Google’s Larry page and Sergey Brin debated in 2001. Ultimately, they decided that that management was unnecessary and initiated what they called a Disorg and fired all managers. A year later, there was an intellectual … Read more

LeSS Talks: Professor Snowden, Answering Tough Questions For: Individuals, Companies, Industry

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This topic was based on the questions, crowdsourced from the audience, for Professor Snowden. The questions covered: Complexity management vs. complexity reduction. This jives so much with dependency management vs. dependency reduction. Companies tend to skillfully MANAGE complexity and dependencies, with more tools, processes and processors, as opposed to reducing them. Any thoughts on this? … Read more