Scrum
LeSS with Gene and James: Choice of Product Owner
What we have covered (~13 minutes): Where do great Product Owners and Area Product Owners come from? What are some of the most classic omissions with selecting candidates for the roles? Addressing the issue from the standpoint of product centricity and organizational design
Agile Vietnam Conference 2022: Majority of “Agile Transformations” Are Fakes And Failures. But There Are Exceptions.
Synopsis: Most of ‘agile transformations’ are failures and/or fakes. Many people that claim triumphing successes with agile transformations, do this to simply to advance upwards on their own career ladder, since their compensation and promotion are dependent on their own claims of success. Nowadays, the words “agile”, “enterprise” and “scaling” are mostly misunderstood and frequently … Read more
Feature Teams vs. Product Teams? Organizational Implications of False Dichotomy.
This post is an extension of an older discussion and therefore, briefly, about the history: Back in 2019, the Founder and Partner of SVPG (Silicon Valley Product Group), Marty Cagan wrote the post “Product vs. Feature Teams”, where he defined two types of teams: product and feature, and then compared-contrasted them. He also contrasted them … Read more
Highlights of LeSS Adoption at Big Dutch Bank, with Cesario Ramos
Reference Materials – TBD
Following FTAM By Expanding DoD VS. Becoming A Hostage To Traditional Org Structure
Related reading: Maturation (Simplification) of Definition of Ready (DoR) When a team is not able to deliver a product increment (PSPI) at the end of a sprint, we should not automatically assume that its developers poorly estimated, refined or planned their work. There could be other reasons. In fact, there are many teams that … Read more
LeSS Talks: German Big Insurance Case Study Discussion, with Wolfgang Steffens
Case Study | Wolfgang Steffens – Author/Presenter | LinkedIn Profile Initial Questions Submitted to Wolfgang Steffens: Why in Faux (Fake) Scrum =”Scrum” with component teams, there a 1-to-1 ratio between a team and “PO”. Who and How was involved in defining Requirement Areas (RAs)? How were people chosen? Who validated that they were right people? … Read more
LeSS Talks 01/29: Extreme Ownership In Scrum: How To Become Accountable Leaders?, with Chris Roan
Download Materials Chris Roan’s Biography | LinkedIn profile
Dec 01-03: Certified LeSS For Executives with Craig Larman | NYC
Erin Perry’s reflection on the course: Reflection Day 1 Reflection Day 1 Reflection Day 1 Kodak Moments: Teams @ Work System Modelling with Causal Loop Diagrams (CLD)