The LeSS City Guide Simulation is an interactive, hands-on activity designed to help participants experience the dynamics of multiple teams working together on a single product.

In this updated version of the Nexus Zoo simulation, the focus is shifted to a practical project: creating a city guide for the city where the training is taking place. Unlike the Nexus Zoo simulation, this exercise incorporates events typically seen in LeSS adoptions, such as a Self-Design Team Workshop and Multi-Team Refinement, to better simulate LeSS dynamics.

Introduction

Spill-over or carryover items are common in many teams. Unfortunately. Focusing on avoiding spill-over can have a positive impact on the team and team dynamics. This article provides insights into what spill-over is, why it’s important, how to prevent it, and what not to do to avoid it, along with strategies for measurement and improvement.

In the first part of the Rise of Product Developers series, we explored how Product Developers focus on the domain and users’ problems to build a product. The true value developers bring lies in their critical assessment of what and how they’re building. This approach has always been essential, but it’s become more clear now than ever as AI’s capacity to generate code continues to advance. Because of this mindset, Product Developers refer to Product Backlog Items as hypotheses.