Transformation
LeSS Talks: Ending the Age of Misery, by Andy Hunt ( Agile Manifesto Co-Creator)
Click to Download Click to Download The the following key “AVOID” points were made: Avoid endless ticketing systems and [JIRA] “ticket-driven development” Avoid seeing “agile” now == Half-assed Scrum plus Jira tickets Avoid small tasks disconnected with context Avoid bogus “snake oil” tools & methods Avoid disconnected leadership, stakeholders, product owners, etc. Avoid destructive Social … Read more
LeSS Talks: Shift From Frantic and Stressful to Focused and Strategic PBR
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: GLAD Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Organizational Design with Craig Larman
Synopsis: AI & Org Design: AI tools are going to disrupt many existing knowledge-worker roles, including those in product development. This talk and follow-up Q&A explores probable impacts AI will have on the organizational design of development organizations, and will be of interest to those working in and managing development, plus HR/People groups. Download materials
LeSS with Gene and James: Navigating the LeSS Complete Picture
Synopsis: How to embrace and digest the entire body of knowledge that Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) offers? How to understand what is foundational, what is minimally required and what is optional? There is an image on less.works site that graphically illustrates LeSS Principles, Frameworks (Rules), Guides & Experiments. However, how the aforementioned relate to one … Read more
12/21- LeSS Talks: Understanding Organizations as a complex adaptive system, with Dave Snowden
Download Chat Script Synopsis: Understanding the organization as a complex adaptive system offers many opportunities to organizations to increase the rate of innovation and remove excessive costs by understanding what can actually managed. This session will provide some of the background principles to managing complexity and will also look at pragmatic methods and tools that … Read more
LeSS with Gene and James: Internal [Unintentional] Distortions of LeSS
Multiple Component (or even Feature/Product Teams) Teams, sprinting concurrently != LeSS Is this and attempt to scale? This is copy-pasting, at best. If different products are involved, why same sprinting schedule matters? If teams build the same product but do not share a backlog/PO – what is the benefit of concurrency? Is this just a … Read more
LeSS with Gene and James: Improving Quickly Requires Fixing Structure
Deep and narrow organizational design changes aligned with adaptability can produce fruitful outcomes far faster than applying management pressure to squeeze improved performance out of the status quo system. A deep and narrow LeSS adoption will rapidly produce improvement in adaptability and value delivery, even when the discomfort resulting from increased transparency sometimes makes it … Read more