Case Study: LeSS Adoption at Federal Pension Service in Belgium (SFPD)

Ever since 2015 we get our customers so proud on what they achieved that they go on stage. This time we are happy to share a recording of our LeSS Case Study at the Federal Pension Service in Belgium (SFPD). An amazing story of technical excellence and internal change agents. [siteorigin_widget class=”WP_Widget_Media_Video”][/siteorigin_widget] If you are […]

Case Study – applying LeSS Kaikaku (Flip-Forward) events

A Kaikaku event is there to facilitate a serious system change to grow product development capabilities within an organization. One can go with Kaizen events and related incremental improvement until the limits of the system you apply them in, in order to improve further one will need to apply some kind of Kaikaku or choose […]

Outcome Based Product Backlogs in Large-Scale Scrum

Many organisations are struggling to setup outcome based Product Backlog for their teams, they were stuck in output or scope based backlogs before and kept that behavior. Even though scope isn’t a bad thing, understanding its link to business outcomes and what assumptions are behind is (to me) better. I do address this working with Product […]

Why should most organizations ditch Scrum?

I took a challenge for my talk at Agile Prague 2019: “How to deliver a 1h talk in 30mins?” — Title of the talk: “Why should most organizations dtich Scrum?” Why would I do that? Well, because being a speaker at Agile Prague is tremendously enjoyable and I didn’t want to miss out on an opportunity […]

LeSS No More Majors Story at SFPD – Webinar Recording

We are proud to share the story of the No More Majors Community at the governmental institute of pensions in Belgium (SFPD) which was initiated as part of their LeSS adoption preparations and strategy. This recording was made on August 28th when Tom Jans & Thierry de Pauw did a pre-run of their Munich LeSS Conference […]

Case Study: Large-Scale Scrum at BASE Company

Base Company was the third Mobile Operator in Belgium and stayed within the top 3 market leaders, even today now the organisation has gone through a new change. Their IT was part of the technology department that was also responsible for the mobile network, from design to operations. Within the IT organization were a couple of hundred […]

Re-Thinking the Organization: Sociocracy 3.0 – Reversify – LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)

If you are not moving at the speed of the marketplace you’re already dead – you just haven’t stopped breathing yet. – Jack Welch The organizational structure in which most of us operate today can be quite an obstacle to respond adequately to a fast-changing business environment. In fact, traditional organizational structures are not designed […]

How organizations go nuts?

It is amazing how easily organizations go nuts in the sense of complicated structures, amount of roles, process and so on and the reasons are very obvious. Organizations with money to spend will make mistakes by going for quick solutions and not allowing their teams to find more appropriate ways to deal with issues at […]

One year into a Large-Scale Scrum adoption at Base Company

This blog is different from many others as the author is not really the author at all. We do not see value in telling a customer story by ourselves and as such we let them do it for us, let them explain why LeSS, what challenges and what succesthey see being about 1 year into the adoption. […]