A LeSS Story - Episode 3 - Multi-Team Product Backlog Refinement in LeSS

What really happens after the sprint starts in a LeSS organization?

In this third video of our LeSS story series, you step inside a living, breathing product organization and see how multiple teams collaborate as one system—without heavy coordination overhead, handoffs, or central control.

You’ll watch how:

  • Communities of practice emerge naturally to align teams and accelerate learning
  • Teams reach out directly to real users for early feedback—before it’s “done”
  • Product Backlog Refinement becomes a shared, multi-team activity, not a meeting owned by one person

The video brings to life how LeSS works in practice:

  • A testing community experiments with new tools—driven by curiosity and ownership
  • Developers collaborate with customer support, trainers, traders, and even legal experts
  • Five teams refine backlog items together in a multi-team Product Backlog Refinement workshop
  • The Product Owner shares direction and intent, while teams take ownership of the details

You’ll see a powerful refinement approach where:

  • Backlog items are visible to everyone
  • Teams self-select work based on interest and priority
  • Every refinement group includes members from all teams
  • Learning, alignment, and shared understanding happen continuously

What you’ll learn by watching

  • How LeSS enables fast feedback across teams and users
  • How to run effective multi-team Product Backlog Refinement
  • How Product Owners balance direction with shared ownership
  • Why cross-team collaboration beats handoffs and specialization
  • How communities strengthen alignment without adding bureaucracy

If you’re curious about scaling product development without losing agility, this video shows what that looks like day to day—concrete, practical, and human.

🎬 In the final video of the series, you’ll see how a single Product Backlog guides the whole product and how the sprint concludes with review and retrospective.
Stay tuned.