LeSS Newsletter - October 2025
2025-10-31Hi 👋
It's been an exciting two months with LeSS conferences in Singapore, Amsterdam and Tokyo. We hope you gained valuable insights! Presentation materials are being uploaded now, and video recordings will be available in the coming months so you can revisit key sessions or catch what you missed.
What’s inside this month?
- 🎯 Upcoming: LeSS Coach program - for scrum masters and coaches
- 🤖 Staying Adaptive in the Age of AI
- 🫱🏻🫲🏾 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the LeSS Community
- 🍿 New video with Viktor Grgić
- 🎙️Speakers overview at the TalkLeSS conference in November, Warsaw
- 🤠 Story by Craig Larman on AI
Enjoy, and keep learning!
— Bastiaan van Hamersveld
CEO at less.works (bastiaan@less.works)
Upcoming: LeSS Coach program
Are you a Coach or Scrum Master? You like to make more impact at your current and future jobs?
Lead deep change. Enable real adaptability.
Take the next step in your journey as a systems thinker and organizational change leader.
The LeSS Coach program helps you grow your impact, influence, and expertise — with mentorship and a global community behind you.
- Able to lead successful LeSS adoptions
- Gain tools to drive deep transformation
- Boost your career and market value
- Learn directly from your dedicated and experienced LeSS Mentor
- Join a global network of change leaders
- Attract more coaching opportunities
- Highly affordable
🚀🚀🚀 Get notified when LeSS Coach launches!
Join the next wave of Coaches and Scrum Masters shaping adaptive organizations!
Staying Adaptive in the Age of AI
How is AI influencing real agility in organizations?
LeSS and the Agile Consortium are running a short survey to understand how AI is affecting collaboration, learning, and delivery in real teams — beyond tools and hype.
Your insights will help shape practical guidance for staying adaptive and human-centred in our work.
The survey takes ~4 minutes, and we’ll share the results in our December newsletter!
We’d love to include your voice 👇
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
This year, at LeSS2025, DEI clearly struck a chord — from Saloni Seth-Watkins’ inspiring talk, the vibrant Open Space discussions, to the question in the Q&A on Day 2.
DEI is about making sure everyone has real access to contribute and be heard. Even in a global and diverse LeSS community, we can still improve how our system invites and supports different voices — which strengthens learning, collaboration, and product outcomes.
We recognize there is still work to be done and are excited to announce that DEI is a formal community topic!
You are invited to participate in the #dei channel to share your thoughts, ideas, suggestions or participate in improving LeSS, less.works content and future conferences & events.
- Step 1: Join the LeSS Slack community (free!)
- Step 2: Join the
#deichannel
Video: CafeTalk 5 - Rethinking rewards
Viktor Grgic and Bastiaan van Hamersveld talk about how you reward people in a way that truly supports learning, collaboration, and long-term product outcomes—without falling into the trap of measuring individual performance in complex work.
Click to play!
Talk LeSS Conference 2025 – November 17, Warsaw
The art of learning twice the knowledge in half the time
This November 17th, 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.
✅ Seats are limited — save your spot now! 🗓️ November 17, 2025 – Warsaw, Poland
What my daughter's film industry job taught me about AI and the future of work
I have a sister and a daughter who work in the film industry. What’s happening there should terrify every organization leader.
Productions that currently take 1,000 to 2,000 people to complete are shrinking dramatically. Not by 10%. Not by 20%. The scale of reduction is orders of magnitude larger.
This is happening right now. These are very early days for AI, and the disruption is already visible...