Scrum

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

(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

Bringing It All Together: Developers “Shape” (I,T,M), DSEM and FTAM

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There are lot of discussions about capabilities (technical, business domain) and maturities of developers and entire teams that gets circulated today. Sometimes, information is too confusing and terminology gets mixed up.  This summary is an attempt to pull together a few very important concepts and make them easy for everyone to follow. Feature Team Adoption … Read more

Practice What You Preach – Coach & Trainer Wants to Play Product/Manager Owner Role

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LinkedIn Post I have spent more than 20 years of my career training and coaching agile, Scrum and Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), to hundreds of teams and thousands of team members.  I have upskilled hundreds Scrum Masters and Product Owners.  Many of my students were also certified by me. Many senior executives have received my … Read more

Avoiding False Dichotomy: “If We Are Agile, We Are Not CMMI Compliant”.

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“Our organization is trying to become more agile and we are using agile frameworks to deliver products to our customers. Therefore, it is going to be practically impossible for us to meet CMMI requirements”. – WRONG! If your organization wants to become Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) compliant because of direct government mandates or because … Read more