Recently, I was chatting with my friend (and a LeSS site developer) Terry Yin and we were reflecting on two different product development efforts. He had been working with a client and the Sprint Review was boring as hell. People didn’t really care. Also the teams didn’t care whether they...

Interview with Venkatesh Krishnamurthy in CA DevOPs Perspectives. First published in DevOps Perspectives, edition 4 “In this age of agile development, there’s an uncomfortable reality that needs to be acknowledged and that is that large scale development is still with us. That’s a problem that needs to be faced up...

This post is cross-posted from the Gosei page at their blog Scaling Agility or Bureaucracy There are two very different strategies in adopting Agile in a large organisation, horizontal or vertical. In other words, you may take one product first with narrow and deep focus. Or you may focus on...

Descaling Organizations with LeSS

I recently attended the first of hopefully many Certified LeSS Practitioner Courses in London. We were facilitated, trained and educated by Craig Larman, one of the co creators of the LeSS organizational design system to scaling agile in organisations. Over a year prior to the course, I had participated as...