Publications
Own models, talks and case studies
Everything here came out of practice, usually out of a concrete question that had been left open in a team or in a leadership meeting.
Articles and blogs
Five items
My view on Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
What LeSS actually is, what people usually get wrong about it, and when it does not fit. Experience from practice since 2007.
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Team Knowledge Model
Recognize how knowledge is distributed in the team, motivate learning, and visualize how the team develops.
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Backlog Visualization
The key to the success of agile organizations lies in visualizing the product backlog.
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The Supermarket Principle
Can we learn from supermarkets for product development? Why feature teams matter so much.
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Change Management, An Ambiguity
Change Management is essential to succeed in transformation processes.
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Eight items
LeSS Talk Madrid 2024
The Feature Team Adoption Map (FTAM) is a fabulous tool to transform from Component Teams to value delivering Feature Teams.
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Processes: blessing and curse
At the Celix Solution Day 2024 I talk about the excellence needed in dealing with open processes. In German.
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Backlog Visualization, LeSS Conference 2023
With Frank Preiß, Domain Agile Master at BMW, on visualizing the product backlog. Background in the article Backlog Visualization.
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Team Knowledge Model, LeSS Conference 2022
Experience report from Warsaw: real TKMs of real teams, the measures they derived and what they achieved with them.
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Agility, self-organization and the use of AI
In engagement@work, episode 19, I talk with Dr. Alexander Hildenbrand and Rüdiger Frey about why agility works beyond rituals and why AI only amplifies what is already there. 32 minutes.
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The Balance of Alignment & Autonomy
Talk at the LeSS Meetup New York. Aligned autonomy is an illusion. Alignment and autonomy pull against each other and have to be balanced over and over.
Mark, what is LeSS?
With Andreas Kolmer I talk about Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), give an introduction and tell stories from practice. In German.
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How does ownership work?
With Andreas Kolmer I talk about how ownership can work in large corporations and how you make ownership possible. In German.
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Publicly documented
BMW Autonomous Driving
Introducing Large-Scale Scrum as the organizational structure. Division: autonomous driving, BMW Group AG.
BMW i, Unified Sales Platform
Introducing Large-Scale Scrum in the Unified Sales Platform (USP) project at BMW Group AG.
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