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In part two of my conversation with Rowan Bunning we get deep on the why we bother with agile and LeSS and what needs to be in place to make sure that your adoption dreams are not a folly.

How is this done?

If I wrote it all hear you would have no need to listen, so here are some teasers:

• What are Optimisation goals?
• Do organisations benefit from having a Perfection Vision?
• What the hell is a Gemba Sprint?
• Why you need both purpose and creation excellence? 
• Michael Sahota's Why Agile Workshop still has legs

So who is Rowan?
Rowan Bunning is an Australian pioneer of Scrum having become one of Australia's first ScrumMasters in 2003, Australia’s first Certified Scrum Practitioner® (CSP) in 2006 and Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) in early 2008. With a background in software development, including with eXtreme Programming, he was hired as an Agile Coach by one of Europe's foremost Agile consultancies in 2007.

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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They SUCK because they mean teams do not get to know their customer, solve problems for their users and appreciate how they are contributing to increased happiness and revenue.

And by "Technical Products", I mean Components and by Components I mean pieces of something that as a whole is valuable that has many components all working in unison, but no one component has value on its own.

This makes me sad; this is why I think "technical products" SUCK. 

Why do people end up in this dire situation? In part, it is because of the gap between what is taught is taught in many basic Scrum courses and what the essence of Scrum was.

Things to watch and read I mentioned in this episode: 

1. Dreams of Feature Teams
2. Who are the most important people when scaling agile?
3. How to Identify Copy & Paste (Aka) Fake Scrum

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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Ben Maynard

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This conversation is a fascinating insight into what it was like being one of the very early adopters of some of the most impactful agile techniques & Why LeSS Is Scrum Done Right

Rowan and I have decades of experience in the agile and what became clear during our conversation was that we got very lucky being around agile in the early days.

So who is Rowan?
Rowan Bunning is an Australian pioneer of Scrum having become one of Australia's first ScrumMasters in 2003, Australia’s first Certified Scrum Practitioner® (CSP) in 2006 and Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) in early 2008. With a background in software development, including with eXtreme Programming, he was hired as an Agile Coach by one of Europe's foremost Agile consultancies in 2007.

What Did We Speak About?

🗝️ What happens when the degrees of separation from the original Agile thinker's increases?
🗝️IsTeam Topologies trying to solve problems that Large Scale Scrum chooses not to prioritise addressing?
🗝️What is the Scrum little Black Book
🗝️ What is the relationship between XP, Smalltalk and Simplicity in organisation design?
🗝️What is it like begining a LeSS Adoption when the Organisation's goals do not align with LeSS?
🗝️ How does Rowan bring leadership misalignment into the light?
🗝️What would Rowan do with a clone of himself?
🗝️What is one of the first things that seems to degrade when an organisation gets bigger?
🗝️Why is orienting yourself with agile, as a beginner, more challenging these days?

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Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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Ben Maynard

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

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Want to have a solid argument for helping people see why fewer Product Backlogs and Product Owners are beneficial? Then this is the episode for you.

You can expect to here this and more:

• Why over-empowerment is a plague and how it leads to Micro Re-Prioritisation
• The HUGE effort to bring disparate parts together
•  What is value hide and seek?

Want to learn more about Large Scale Scrum from a pro?
Then you should check out Sheev's special introductory offer on LeSS Mentoring Circles from the UK's only Certified LeSS Trainer and Coach (Ben aka Me)

Related videos that are worth watching:

• Team Level Product Ownership Kills Agile at Scale
• Projects to Products
• What are the difficulties when scaling Scrum?

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Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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Ben Maynard

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

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So many critical agile ideas have been based around Dunbar's number.  What if I told you Team Topologies and SAFe had missed the point?

I had a gut feeling that something wasn't right, so I contacted Robin Dunbar, and he set me straight.

In this short teaser for my conversation with Certified Scrum Trainer and all round Agile legend Rowan Bunning, I share with how wrong the agile world (well parts of it) have got it.

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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Ben Maynard

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

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💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/

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This year at the LeSS Conferences 2022,  eeping with tradition, the two Keynote speeches were from LeSS Creators Bas Vodde and Craig Larman

Bas Vodde - Maximizing Dependencies with Interdependent Teams

Craig Larman - TBD

Frederic and I got together to reflect on the two keynotes and share our sadness about a certain someone who wasn't there :-(


Dr.-Ing. Frederic Siepmann, Corporate Agile Coach at Brainlab, http://www.brainlab.com

Frederic on LinkedIn

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

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Its always exciting when a mentee achieves something epic.

Having mentored Robert through the Certified LeSS Trainer process it was a nothing but joy to meet up with him in Warsaw to talk about that journey and his brilliant case study.

Roberts Solarwinds Case Study

Robert on LinkedIn

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Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

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Konstantin Ribel is an Organisational Design Consultant & Certified LeSS Trainer with nearly a decade of experience.

This experience spans both hardware and software in the medical and automotive worlds. Understandably this leads him to have some unique and thought-provoking insights into making multi-team  agile really work. There is no better testament to this than his HUGE LeSS Huge case study at BMW Autonomous Driving.

He is a great conversationalist and apparently the world's youngest Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Trainer.

It will be no surprise to hear we have a 💥blast💥

We of course covered the standard Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) trainer questions:

✨ What is your elevator pitch for LeSS?
✨ Did you choose LeSSor did LeSSchoose you?
✨ What’s the one thing, above all others, you love about LeSS?
✨ What was your favorite LeSS adoption?
✨ If you could change one thing about LeSS what would it be?

Here is a bit of a tease as to what you will hear (just in case the above wasn't enough):

🏎️ Agile Convincers Vs. Agile Coaches
🏎️ Should people sell Large Scale Scrum?
🏎️ What is the difference between owning and renting ideas?
🏎️ Doe's the LeSS community ideal of "owning not renting" jar with the LeSS guidance of "adoption"?
🏎️ Konstantin's love of the purity and elegance of LeSS
🏎️How Scrum reduced Bens's Anxiety
🏎️What about LeSS that made Konstantin resonate like a tuning fork?
🏎️Why did Konstantin have to choose between hardware and software?
🏎️What doe's Konstantin believe are the "mechanics" of LeSS?
🏎️What feels better a quick fix or a more permanent one?
🏎️What has been Konstantisns favorite part of the BMW LeSS adoption
🏎️And what was his least?
 

Here are some tasty links for you:
🔗Konstantin's Website
🔗Konstantins LeSS Courses
🔗Konstantin Ribel on LinkedIn
🔗Extreme Programming
🔗HUGE LeSS Huge case study at BMW Autonomous Driving

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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Ben Maynard

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

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Artem grabbed me at the LeSS Conference 2022 because he wanted to talk about something important to him, turns out it was important to me too.

Why do Agile adoptions make agile coaches feel like imposters? And Why is the pull of status quo so hard?

There are a few golden nuggets in this chat,  Artem is wise beyond his years.

Here is what Artem would like you to know about him

Artem Bykovets - trainer, LeSS coach, leadership and organizational consultant

Conducts various trainings, workshops and lectures for companies of various sizes and specializations. Launches and supports companies on the path of organizational & Agile transformation.

More than 11 years on the market, worked with teams in the following areas: IT, retail and pricing, gambling, multimedia, hardware, telecom, banks, CRM and others.

Founder of Simplesense. and creator of the Simplicity Day conference. Co-organizer of the #AgileWithUkraine initiative.

Links:

+ https://www.abykovets.com/en 

+ https://www.agilewithukraine.com/

+ https://www.linkedin.com/in/abykovets

+ https://youtube.com/c/ArtemBykovets

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

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A talk in ten...

You can find details of the talk here

Hypergrowth (or “Blitzscaling” in words of Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman) has become an obsession and a "by default" path for successful start-ups. It is expected by investors, it is treated as means of producing more outputs by founders and it represents a significant challenge for both the structure and processes. In my talk, I would like to share my story of dealing with such a situation at two start-ups that were adopting LeSS. I will dive into the system dynamics the hypergrowth has produced in both cases, and share the challenges we have faced, experiments we have applied to address or mitigate those and outcomes they led to.

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.  

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💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ 

Product Agility Podcast 

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