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Thorben Pantring: The Team That Learned How To Collaborate, and Avoid the “It's Not My Job” Anti-Pattern Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. In a revealing episode, Thorben shares lessons from a team in trouble. The team members worked in isolation, often saying "It's not my job" and addressing each other by their roles, not by their names. Thorben tried 2 experiments to help the team: a Work in Progress limit of 1 to foster collaboration and a workshop on the "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team" Model (inspired by the book by Lencioni) highlighting the need for commitment and accountability. Emphasizing a shared sprint goal, Thorben recommends assessing progress collectively. Eventually, a cultural shift occurred—team members adopted the motto "it's our job," fostering collaboration and breaking down role-based barriers. Featured Book of the Week: "Large Scale Scrum" by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman Thorben recommends "Large Scale Scrum" by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman as key book for Scrum Masters. Highlighting its practicality, he emphasizes its value in expanding Scrum beyond a single team. The book guides not just development but also incorporates management involvement for successful large-scale Scrum implementation. Thorben praises its emphasis on customer-centric development, making it an essential read for those striving to make agile magic happen. [IMAGE HERE] Do you wish you had decades of experience? Learn from the Best Scrum Masters In The World, Today! The Tips from the Trenches - Scrum Master edition audiobook includes hours of audio interviews with SM's that have decades of experience: from Mike Cohn to Linda Rising, Christopher Avery, and many more. Super-experienced Scrum Masters share their hard-earned lessons with you. Learn those today, make your teams awesome! About Thorben Pantring Thorben is an experienced Scrum Master & Team Lead in the eCommerce space, showcasing expertise in leadership, LeSS, Scrum, team management, and engineering. With an insatiable desire for learning and a relentless pursuit of progress, Thorben embodies a fervent passion for leadership, agility, and technology. You can link with Thorben Pantring on LinkedIn.
Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. Tinatin discusses the importance of the scrum values in a team and how well the team is living those values. She highlights the importance of team health checks to identify inefficiencies, which can often result from a lack of collaboration and trust between team members. Tinatin uses the example of the Spotify Squad health check (mentioned several times here on the podcast) that reveals a lack of trust between developers and testers, and offers tips for identifying a lack of trust in a team, such as monitoring levels of comfort among team members, monitoring communication, and observing meetings for signs of discomfort or silence. Featured Book Of The Week: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Sutherland In Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Sutherland, the author describes how to optimize work through Agile methodology and Scrum principles. In this episode, Tinatin also refers to Scaling Lean and Agile Development by Craig Larman, and Bas Vodde. Bas Vodde has been a previous guest on the podcast. And she also refers to Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age by Roman Pichler. [IMAGE HERE] Do you wish you had decades of experience? Learn from the Best Scrum Masters In The World, Today! The Tips from the Trenches - Scrum Master edition audiobook includes hours of audio interviews with SM's that have decades of experience: from Mike Cohn to Linda Rising, Christopher Avery, and many more. Super-experienced Scrum Masters share their hard-earned lessons with you. Learn those today, make your teams awesome! About Tinatin Tabidze Tinatin Tabidze is a Scrum Master currently working in Stuttgart, Germany. Originally she started out as a project manager. She has experience with multiple scrum and kanban teams, working with scaled agile frameworks. You can link with Tinatin Tabidze on LinkedIn.
Join Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Bas Vodde on LeSS. LeSS is true Scrum at Scale not just at the team level. LeSS applies the principles, purpose and elements of Scrum in a large-scale context, as simply as possible. Many scrum teams with one product, one product owner, one product backlog, one sprint, one sprint planning meeting, one sprint review and one retrospective. Large-Scale Scrum is Scrum. Empirical process control. Transparency. More with less. Whole-product focus. Customer-centric. Continuous improvement towards perfection. Systems thinking. Listen to the podcast on your favourite podcast app: | Spotify | Apple Podcasts | iHeart Radio | PlayerFM | Amazon Music | Listen Notes | TuneIn | Audible | Connect with Bas via Linkedin or https://less.works/ , Murray via email or Shane in the Twitter-sphere @shagility. The No Nonsense agile Podcast is sponsored by: Simply Magical Data
Read the full Show Notes and search through the world's largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. This week Jurgen is with us to talk about his latest project: unFIX.work.In this episode we talk about productivity in teams and organizations. Jurgen shares with us how he sees the current productivity paradigm, and what the productivity paradigms are missing: community. We explore why community, not only productivity, should be the focus of Agile and the frameworks around Agile adoption. In this episode we refer to The Toyota Way by Jeffrey Liker, Chris Smith from Redgate Software, the book Shift from Product to People by Pete Oliver-Krueger, and Michael Dougherty, LeSS and SAFe, which have both been covered here on the podcast with their respective creators: Bas Vodde and Dean Leffingwell. How can Angela (the Agile Coach) quickly build healthy relationships with the teams she's supposed to help? What were the steps she followed to help the Breeze App team fight off the competition? Find out how Angela helped Naomi and the team go from “behind” to being ahead of Intuition Bank, by focusing on the people! Download the first 4 chapters of the BOOK for FREE while it is in Beta! About Jurgen Appelo Jurgen Appelo is an entrepreneur, an author, and keynote speaker who applies Agile to his life and his businesses. He's also prolific writer on all topics business and agile. He wrote Management 3.0, How to Change the World, Managing for Happiness and his latest book about entrepreneurship and product development: Startup, Scale up, Screw up. You can link with Jurgen Appelo on LinkedIn and connect with Jurgen Appelo on Twitter.
Litteratur-kanon og agile rimer temmelig dårligt. Men i denne episode gør Ole og Katrine alligevel forsøget og skaber den ultimative agile læseliste. Ole går som sædvanlig struktureret og systematisk til værks med det komplette overblik over enhver tænkelig kategori. Og ikke overraskende har Katrine en mere følelsesladet tilgang, hvor hun fortæller personlige historier om sine bog-anbefalinger. Sådan er mennesker jo heldigvis forskellige
Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. It seems like a “no brainer” to choose the best people available and form a team with them. However, as Ben reminds us, that’s not always the case. Sometimes the “best” people available don’t have compatible personalities, and the Scrum Master must be able to understand and tackle that together with leadership. In this episode, Ben shares the story of a team of “stars” that just couldn’t work together and describes the things he tried (and which worked… or not) to help that team grow. In this episode, we refer to LeSS and to an episode with Bas Vodde, one of the creators of the LeSS framework. In this segment, we refer to Deming and the concept of Gemba walks. Featured Book of the Week: Practices For Scaling Lean & Agile Development, by Vodde and Larman Thanks to Bas Vodde’s and Craig Larman’s Practices For Scaling Lean & Agile Development, Ben changed his career. First, he started by applying many of the ideas in the book, and started to like the approach that the authors take in the book: suggesting experiments for readers to try. While reading the book, ben found many ideas that he could try at work, which ultimately led him to become a large scale Scrum trainer. About Ben Maynard Ben is an experienced coach, trainer, and mentor assisting senior leaders in medium to large organizations with organizational design and the cultural repercussions. You can link with Ben Maynard on LinkedIn and connect with Ben Maynard on Twitter.
En esta serie de capítulos dedicados a los marcos de Agile Escalado, en nuestro podcast hemos ya conversado de SAFe, Kanban Escalado, Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), y Nexus. En este nuevo episodio continuamos con esta serie hablando de LeSS.LeSS es un acrónimo para referirse a "Large–Scale Scrum" - Scrum a Gran Escala - y sus prácticas se crearon en base a la experiencia en este campo y a la colaboración de Craig Larman y Bas Vodde.En el último Annual State of Agile Report (el número décimo cuarto reporte, de 2020), Nexus aparece en el séptimo lugar con un 3% de uso según los encuestados.Para conocer este marco de escalado, contamos con un nuevo amigo, experto en LeSS: Juan Banda.Para conocer más sobre este y los demás episodios, puedes consultar: https://medium.com/hormigas-agilistas
This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences. In this podcast recorded at Agile 2019, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Bas Vodde, one of the formulators of Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) about how LeSS is designed to descale an organisation rather than scaling up to cope with complexity Why listen to this podcast: • LeSS is based on the idea of de-scaling and reducing complexity rather than scaling to cope with complexity • A characteristic of LeSS adoptions is that the concepts of projects and programs tend to completely disappear in favour of product-based working • With LeSS, you have always one Product Owner for the entire product. Product owners per team are considered to be an exceptionally bad idea from a LeSS perspective • LeSS is based on having largely stable, cross-functional teams working on customer centric functionality • LeSS is based on a set of ten principles which guide the approach, and then imperical feedback based on experiments and constant learning More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2WcEiwy You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2WcEiwy
Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. In this team, the developers only wanted to focus on their own tasks and did not care to help the Product Owner. This was, as it turned out, a recipe for disaster. We discuss with Dimitri, what drives teams to be task-focused, instead of impact-focused, and discuss techniques we might be able to use to bring the team’s attention to the overall goals and the collaboration with the Product Owner. Featured Book for the Week: Creating Great Teams In Creating Great Teams: How Self-Selection Lets People Excel by Sandy Mamoli and David Mole, Dimitri discovered an approach that helps create teams who are motivated from the start. In this segment, we also refer to the books by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. Bas was a previous guest on the podcast. We also refer to Anton Zotin, who has also been on the podcast before. About Dimitri Favre Dimitri is a business, transformation, and agile coach and a repented project manager. Dimitri works side by side with executives, managers, and teams to uncover better ways of developing software and delighting customers. Dimitri is the author of a recent book, on the topic of #NoProjects: Live Happily Ever After Without Projects: A #NoProjects book. You can link with Dimitri Favre on LinkedIn and connect with Dimitri Favre on Twitter.
Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website. When George joined this company, he was told that they were already “pretty agile”. This is usually a sign that somethings are not really working well, and this was no exception. When he joined, George found out this was a project manager-driven organization, where project managers tried to get the work done but wanted to reduce the budget at the same time. The anti-patterns followed, and George learned a few important lessons about being a Scrum Master in a project-driven organization. In this episode, we refer to the episode with Bas Vodde, where we discuss organizing product development without projects, and the #AgileOnlineMeetup with Bob Galen where we talk about the self-care Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches must take to sustain their work over the long term. About George Mathews George Mathews is a Scrum Master at SentryOne for two fully remote teams. Prior to that, he had experience as a Customer Service Representative, Operations Analyst and Finance Technical Analyst allowing him to employ a broad practical point of view as he coaches Agile teams at SentryOne. You can link with George Mathews on LinkedIn.
In this SoundNotes live with Bas Vodde, we’ll chat about the LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) community. We’ll also delve into the role of the product owner in LeSS, and how it compares to their role in Scrum.
Craig is at YOW! Singapore and catches up with Stanly Lau, organiser of the Agile Singapore conference and the Agile Singapore meetup: Bas Vodde was one of the early advocates for Agile in Singapore The state of Agile in Singapore has progressed from “doing a standup” in 2010 to now many companies thinking about how … Continue reading →
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This week in New York City the Lower East Side is host to the 3rd Annual LeSS Conference. I stopped by the conference today and had the chance to sit down with Bas Vodde to talk about Large Scale Scrum and the annual event they hold to bring the coaches, trainers and practitioners of LeSS together. The LeSS Conference is not like a standard IT Conference. During the interview Bas explains how their approach to setting up and running the event focuses on letting the on-site attendees drive the content and work together to develop new tools, games, and techniques to help the growth, adoption and practice of Large Scale Scrum. If you aren’t familiar with LeSS, this interview will help you get an understanding of how this approach to scaling has a philosophy that aims to simplify things as much as possible in order to create greater understanding of what is blocking an organization from being able to truly adopt an agile approach to work. During the conversation we dig into what happens to the traditional portfolio and program view when you adopt LeSS and take a more product focused approach to work. We also discuss the difference between LeSS and LeSS Huge, which is designed to help organizations running upwards of 8 teams create products using agile. If you’d like to learn more about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), including case studies, please check: http://less.works If you are having trouble finding someone to help you implement LeSS, send an email to support@less.works And if you’d like to reach out to Bas directly, send an email to basv@odd-e.com
Bas Vodde, in the bay area. One of the founders of less. Boss: How can we get the same fun dynamics of a single team but working with multiple teams? Because often they add so much stuff and bureaucracy and distance between the teams and the actual users, that it's no fun anymore.
Bas Vodde in the bay area, one of the founders of LeSS on “Why Scaling?”
Jack Skeels is the CEO and Founder of AgencyAgile. There are many organizations devoted to helping companies transform to agile, but AgencyAgile is the only one that is solely focused on helping Digital Agencies adopt Agile. In this interview Jack shares his thoughts on Agile and what makes it succeed or fail in a Digital Agency context. SHOW NOTES 00:10 Interview Begins 00:40 Background on Jack and Agency Agile 01:24 How Jack ended up helping Digital Agencies adopt Agile 05:10 Trying out different types of Agile 06:10 Taking a job so you can run experiments in how to manage projects 08:12 You can’t make people trust 09:13 Jack’s initial questions for management: How much pain are you in? How much gain do you want? 09:52 What is the hardest part for a Digital Agency adopting Agile? 11:52 Transforming the agency AND their clients. Training is not enough 13:40 Do we need a new flavor of Agile tailored to Digital Agencies? 17:26 Does Agile actually make things work better? Are there actual business benefits? 18:38 How does AgencyAgile “sell” Agile to companies? 21:32 We need to stop disempower team members. They care as much as we do. 24:39 Can we actually get consistent cross-functional teams in an Agency? 25:22 Designing work stream teams of 25 26:07 Transforming the whole agency at once 27:31 Are there clients who are not ready to transform yet? 31:10 Letting go of learned behavior 32:30 What do we need for Agile to work in a Digital Agency? 33:19 Agile will work when it becomes a management initiative NOT a Project Management Initiative 34:53 How you can learn more about the AgencyAgile approach 36:10 Books about Agile that Jack recommends 37:00 Jack response to “We can’t do Agile because we’re fixed bid.” 38:10 Advice from Jack for those who want to adopt Agile in a digital agency 39:07 Where you can learn more about Jack 40:11 Interview Ends Links Mentioned in the Podcast 2017 Digital PM Summit: http://bureauofdigital.com/summits/digital-pm-2017/ Books by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development http://amzn.to/2uCR6AV Scaling Lean & Agile Development http://amzn.to/2wXVKWG Contacting Jack: Website: https://www.agencyagile.com Blog: https://www.agencyagile.com/insights/ Medium: https://medium.com/@jackskeels Twitter : https://twitter.com/agencyagile LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackaskeels/ If you are interested in this topic, please stay tuned for more. In preparation for a session I am leading at the 2017 Digital PM Summit (ttp://bureauofdigital.com/summits/digital-pm-2017/), I have been doing lots of interviews about how to make Agile work in a digital environment.
In this edition of the Agile India Podcast, Chris and Sean will be discussing an upcoming talk by Jez Humble titled "Why Scaling Agile Doesn't Work" - https://confengine.com/agile-india-2017/proposal/3551/why-scaling-agile-doesnt-work Chris and Sean explore some of the challenges of scaling agile and what can be done about it. Below are some of the various resources discussed during this podcast: Scaling Lean & Agile Development - Craig Larman and Bas Vodde - https://www.amazon.in/Scaling-Lean-Agile-Development-Organizational-ebook/dp/B001PBSDIE?ie=UTF8&keywords=bas%20vodde&qid=1483152241&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3 12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory - https://hackernoon.com/12-signs-youre-working-in-a-feature-factory-44a5b938d6a2 Jez Humble - Principles of Lean Product Management - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH6bnQzJojo Dynamic Reteaming - Heidi Helfand - https://leanpub.com/dynamicreteaming Team of Teams - General Stanley McChrystal - http://www.amazon.in/Team-Teams-Rules-Engagement-Complex/dp/1591847486/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1483152096&sr=8-1&keywords=team+of+teams Bridget Kromhout - Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjhIA6QTy5k Nicole Forsgren - Continuous Delivery + DevOps = Awesome - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuYS5NF1Uaw Agile Scaling Frameworks: Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) - http://www.scaledagileframework.com/ LeSS - http://less.works/ Nexus - https://www.scrum.org/Resources/The-Nexus-Guide Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) - http://www.disciplinedagiledelivery.com/ Agile India 2017 will take place 6-12 March in Bengaluru. For more information, please visit 2017.agileindia.org/
LeSS is a lightweight (agile) framework for scaling Scrum to more than one team. It was extracted out of the experiences of Bas and Craig while Scaling Agile development in many different types of companies, products and industries over the last ten years.LeSS consists of the LeSS Principles, the Framework, the Guides and a set of experiments. The LeSS framework is divided into two frameworks: basic LeSS for 2-8 teams and LeSS Huge for 8+ teams.But what does that all really mean? Find out.
LeSS is a lightweight (agile) framework for scaling Scrum to more than one team. It was extracted out of the experiences of Bas and Craig while Scaling Agile development in many different types of companies, products and industries over the last ten years.LeSS consists of the LeSS Principles, the Framework, the Guides and a set of experiments. The LeSS framework is divided into two frameworks: basic LeSS for 2-8 teams and LeSS Huge for 8+ teams.But what does that all really mean? Find out.
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In this episode Michael talks with Bas Vodde about how to apply agile principles to large and distributed development organizations.