LeSS Newsletter - August/September 2025
September 4, 2025Hi 👋
Conference season is in full swing! Four professionally run, community-powered, LeSS Conferences are still coming this year— Singapore, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Warsaw. The places to be to get your organisation ready for the AI era!
What’s further inside:
- 🧩 How to unFIX your organisation with LeSS
- 🎙️ ProductMan Podcast: how Product Teams learn from Customers 🫣
- 🍿 New videos by Jurgen De Smet and Viktor Grgić
Enjoy—and hope to see you at LeSS2025 in Singapore, Amsterdam, Tokyo or Warsaw !
— Bastiaan van Hamersveld
CEO at less.works (bastiaan@less.works)
LeSS Conference Singapore is about to start!
Join us at 2025 LeSS Conference Singapore on 11-12 September Building Business Resilience for Changing Times
- 12 speakers, single-track!
- 3 keynotes
- Learning groups and Open Space
Discover how to build resilient organizations that thrive amid disruption:
- Lv Yi explores shifting from local efficiency to global value - leveraging both organizational design and AI to navigate change,
- Viktor Grgic reveals why hierarchical cultures can dramatically transform into agile, resilient ones - with stories from Asia and beyond,
- Tomasz Wykowski demystifies organizational patterns that enable companies to adapt what they build and deliver as markets shift.
➕ Plus insights on breaking through inertia, scaling in uncertainty, and building true learning organizations
LeSS Amsterdam: Build your Organization for the AI era
Build the Organization for the AI Era ✨
You’ve experimented with AI in products. Now tackle the bigger question: how should your organization evolve? At the LeSS2025 Amsterdam, leading thinkers in organizational design will dive deep—no fluff, no slide-ware marathons.
What you’ll get at LeSS2025:
- Real-world patterns for AI-ready structures and leadership
- Peer exchange with teams already doing this in practice
- Interactive sessions focused on learning, not lectures
🎤 High-impact lineup of practitioners and thought leaders at the forefront of LeSS & AI
- Akihito Enomoto & Kosuke Niwano- Robotics Startup with a Manager-less and Division-less Structure Using LeSS,
- Chai Feng - Critical aspects of dependency management in Large-Scale Software Engineering,
- Pascal Dufour - AI experiments supporting our decision-making,
- Run Eringa & Jaro Redczus - Culture-Driven Evolution: A New Path to Lasting Agility,
- Błażej Drobniuch - Practical BDD Go See Tips,
- Krzysztof Niewinski & Maciej Sochan - The Results-Focused Backlog: Prioritizing What Truly Matters.
Guarenteed ticket on time when your company has 30/60/90-day payment policy 💪 Need an invoice? Company pays by bank-transfer? We got you covered.
📚 We’ve scheduled premium courses around the LeSS Conference—starting with Systems Thinking in Action (📅 8 Oct, 📍 Amsterdam).
🎟️ LeSS Conference participants get 10% off—book your seat.
Join 9 and 10 October, Amsterdam, Get your ticket! ➔
unFIXing Your Organization With LeSS: the complete guide
Robert Briese, LeSS trainer and unFIX practitioner cleared the sky on how combining unFIX and LeSS can help your organization scale agility with structural clarity and collaborative product delivery.
Organizational agility is no longer a luxury but a necessity in today’s fast-moving business landscape. As you already know from working with unFIX, a flexible organizational design can help teams adapt swiftly to change, spark innovation, and deliver value to customers more effectively. Yet, when it comes to scaling product development across multiple teams, many organizations struggle to align structure with execution in a clear, cohesive manner.
This is where LeSS comes into play. While unFIX offers a versatile....
continue reading on less.works →
Videos: CafeTalk 4 & Creating culture of Continuous Improvement
Spotlight: Making LeSS work in the real world
- LeSS & Managers (CaféTalks Ep. 4): Move from managing by reports to managing at the gemba—observe, coach, and set steady routines so teams solve their own problems.
- Make it stick: Back it with education, ongoing coaching, and HR policies that reward growth without title inflation.
- From Good to Great (Jurgen De Smet): Turn intent into habit using Toyota Kata across reviews, refinement, planning, dailies, and retros.
- Work visibly: Simple whiteboards + lightweight Obeya rhythms keep learning focused and fast.
- Learn together: Goal-driven communities (born from real problems—and closed when solved), IKT sessions, book clubs, and hackathons.
Watch the two talks below—and run one small experiment this sprint!
Podcast: What LeSS really offers Product Management
I sat down with host Mateusz Glass on the ProductMan Podcast to unpack what LeSS offers Product Management—beyond delivery. Enjoy the podcast and don't forget to checkout his other episodes.
"Product Management is more than execution. Too often, PMs are confined to backlog management and delivery. In this episode, Bastiaan van Hamersveld (CEO, LeSS.works) explains what the Product Owner role is really about—outcomes, customer learning, and a learning culture—and why a healthy delivery system is the backbone of discovery."
In this episode:
- Who “product people” really are
- Product Managers vs. product people
- A LeSS perspective on SAFe
- How LeSS changes organisations in practice
- The ups and downs of adopting LeSS
Listen to the podcast on Spotify →
🎉 Talk LeSS Conference 2025 – November 17, Warsaw
The art of learning twice the knowledge in half the time
This November, Talk LeSS Conference returns.
Join the one-day, in-person conference focused on the realities of multi-team product development. We’ll examine it from various angles — business, user collaboration, internal processes, and engineering practices.
👥 You’ll hear real case studies shared by people working inside well-known organizations. Expect a friendly, intimate atmosphere, plenty of room for discussion, and an afterparty to keep the conversations going.
🗣️ With Gojko Adzic and Viktor Grgic delivering keynotes, and more sessions led by practitioners. It’s a chance to meet others working on real products at scale — without the noise.
🌆 And discover Warsaw, a city where history meets modern creativity. Take a walk through charming streets, explore castles and world-class museums, and enjoy the energy of one of Europe’s most vibrant capitals.
✅ Seats are limited — save your spot now! 🗓️ November 17, 2025 – Warsaw, Poland