Bas Vodde on LeSS, LeSS Huge and Descaling for Agility

07/13/20 • 25 min

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

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In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Quinn Slack, CEO of Sourcegraph, about becoming a fully remote company, ways to improve communication and collaboration and the value of Zoomcations Why listen to this podcast: • If working remotely really is optional then it’s really important not to put any subtle pressure that says to people that they need to be in the office – it causes stress and confusion • Coming into a half-empty office feels like being in a disaster movie, and generates subtle pressure on people to come into the office • Working remotely is a forcing function that causes you to tackle problems which get ignored when working in person, such as how you onboard new people and how you encourage collaboration • Making all policies and way-of-working public and visible enhances collaboration and communication • Zoomcations (taking a week and working completely asynchronously, without attending any synchronous meetings) allow for deep work and expose communication & collaboration shortcomings in organisation systems More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2ZLdzIq 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/2ZLdzIq

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