Organizational Design

Can LeSS Help Dealing With DOGE Without Painful RIFs?

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Hello USA! How is your organization dealing with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative? On its surface, DOGE represents a well-intentioned drive to streamline federal operations, cut excess spending, and modernize information systems across agencies. By centralizing savings efforts and aiming for measurable performance improvements, DOGE has surfaced long-standing inefficiencies that warrant attention.  However, … Read more

LeSS Talks: Career Paths on Fire: How Tweaking HR Practices Supercharged Our Scaling Effort

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Tweet Do you wish learn about how improved HR norms and policies can further improve your company’s internal dynamics, employees’ relationships, happiness and willingness to stay with the company?  At Y-Soft, people have experimented with improving what has been historically “untouchable” and it made a lot of people happy.  Please play the recording and review Materials/Principles … Read more

Synchronized Sprint Cadence: Thoughtful Decision or Cargo Cult?

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Participate in LinkedIn Discussion What is Cargo Cult? It is a term used to describe certain religious movements that emerged primarily in Melanesia, particularly during and after World War II. These movements arose when indigenous populations, observing the influx of material goods (“cargo”) brought by Westerners, believed that these goods were of divine origin. In … Read more

(UN)FITNESS PARADOX: Why Scrum and LeSS May Not Fit Your Organization?

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Join LinkedIn Discussion Since the early 19th century, people have been using an idiomatic expression: “you can’t fit a square peg in a round hole“. What it means, essentially and metaphorically, is that something or someone is a misfit in a particular environment, situation, or role. For example, if a person describes himself as a … Read more

Dhaval Panchal & Gene Gendel AM Coffee Chat: Plan- vs. Results-Driven Orgs

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Dhaval Panchal of Evolve Agility and Gene G. of KSTS Consulting talked about plan vs. results-driven companies, in their morning coffee chat. What plan-driven companies pay most attention to? Speed of delivery. Efficiency/productivity of workers. High outputs. What results-driven companies pay most attention to? Adaptiveness. Agility. Short feedback loops. Business outcomes. What organizational structures usually … Read more

Large Scale Scrum (LeSS): Business Adaptiveness & Resilience

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What examples of resilience and survival of the fittest phenomenon do we know from the natural history of our planet?  Remember what happened to animals during the Ice Age Era that was caused by an asteroid impact? There were some adaptive animals that migrated towards the equator, with warmer weather. They were able to change certain … Read more