LeSS Talks: LeSS Experiments @ Start-Up Product Company, with David Nielsen

Download Presentation Agenda: LeSS Experiments at a Product Start-up Company in Silicon Valley Team Self-Design Workshop & System Optimization Goal Workshop Result #1 – Whole Product Focus for Feature Teams Result #2 – Single Product Backlog & Product Owner Alignment with business objectives (OKRs) Observe alignments gained OKR Scoreboard Experiment LeSS Events Review Setup Review … Read more

Experience Report: Organizational Design & System Thinking Training with Craig Larman

Experience Report by Vaibhav Gandhi: As a senior coach working in a large financial institution that is on a continuous improvement journey it is key to understand what does “good look like” from an organizational perspective. I tend to have these deep conversations with my coaching partner George Pefanis. One of his suggestions was to … Read more

“Can We Measure Adaptiveness?”, with John Coleman

In this video, John Coleman of Xagility and Gene Gendel of KSTS consulting discuss important topics, such as the geographical restraint to agile adoption, whether LeSS is a framework and the importance of getting executives onboard with LeSS adoptions.   0:00 On the beginning of large scale scrum (LeSS) and his journey into LeSS 9:19 … Read more

DCSUG: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams: Exposing Local Optimization

Download Materials (DCSUG, UHC) References during the event: Feature Teams Primer Agile Contracts Primer Feature Teams Seeing (and Hearing) Local Optimization About Kanban(as an alternative) SAFe (References from: Agile Manifesto co-signers.  Scrum co-creators. Others.)   Additional references: Explore Training Classes on DE-scaling Join and support communities

“What is Parallel Organization?”, with Konstantin Ribel

On Tuesday, October 12, 2021, the Twin Cities LeSS meetup (note: all past recordings of the meetup can be found here). hosted a great webinar with Konstantin Ribel – Certified Scrum Master and LeSS Trainer from Germany. The recoding and materials are below: Download materials In this webinar, Konstantin covered the following topics: The meaning … Read more

08/19-Agile Experts Club – Exposing Uncomfortable Topics: Errors and Omissions with Scaling

Materials Other relevant assets: SAFE: MARKET SHARE INCREASE. RAPID GROWTH. WHAT IS THE RECIPE? Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Roman Pichler Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Bob Schatz  Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Mike Cohn Candid, Unscripted Conversation About SAFe, with Tom Mellor  Q & A on “The Spotify “Model”: Don’t Simply … Read more