03.12.2024 | Warsaw

Unveiling LeSS:
Scaling Agile for Simplicity and Success

Join us at the Talk LeSS conference to delve into Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), an agile framework designed to bring simplicity, flexibility, and efficiency to the world of scaled Agile development. LeSS provides practical strategies for larger organizations to foster collaboration, and deliver value at scale. 

Discover streamlined Agile approaches at our conference to boost organizational agility. Learn to simplify complexity in large-scale product development and enhance team empowerment. Gain insights from successful case studies on the LeSS framework, and leave with effective strategies for better performance and quicker market delivery. This essential event is your key to driving real change in Agile implementation at scale.

Learn from experts:

Gain practical insights through case studies, workshops, and keynotes.

Network:

Connect with Agile and LeSS professionals from diverse industries.

Ask the experts:

Get personalized guidance and advice from LeSS coaches.

Explore real-world examples:

See how LeSS enhances agility and reduces complexity.

Our Speakers & Trainers

Bas Vodde

Bas Vodde

Co-creator of LeSS

Dragan Stepanovic

Dragan Stepanović

Sr. Principal Engineer

Blazej Drobniuch

Błażej Drobniuch

Agile Coach

Jaga Biernacka

Jaga Biernacka-Urban

Social Psychologist

Paweł Urban

Paweł Urban

Staff Engineer

Adam Piekarczyk

Adam Piekarczyk

Adaptiveness enthusiast

Roland Flemm

Roland Flemm

Org consultant, PST

Alexey Krivitsky

Alexey Krivitsky

Org consultant, CST

Oskar Szewczyk

Oskar Szewczyk

Software Engineer

Agenda

9:00-9:45

Registration

9:45-10:00

Opening

10:00-11:00

Creating Elevated Organizations with Org Topologies
Alexey Krivitsky and Roland Flemm
Talk Description

This talk will briefly introduce the concept of Org Topologies, focusing on the innovative mapping idea that underpins the method. And then we’ll shift gears to explore the creation of elevated organization.

We will start by identifying the characteristics that set them apart from traditional ones. And we’ll discuss what we can borrow from methodologies like LeSS, CAO, FASTAgile, and others to forge our unique path. Once we understand the concept of ‘elevating an org’ we could dive into questions like:

– what are the supportive Elevating Structures™ that we recommend to use to get started creating an elevated org?
– how to navigate the popular ideas from Team Topologies which might inadvertently lead to more traditional structures?
– it possible to elevate a SAFe option?
– how to approach a popular concept such as ‘platformization’ or to avoid a downfall of an org?

Join Alexey Krivitsky and Roland Flemm as they delve into these complex questions and provide insights on how to elevate your organization.

11:00-11:20

Break

11:20-13:00

Workhop I:
The Big Five. What psychological elements are important for an effective team?
Jaga Biernacka-Urban & Paweł Urban
Workshop Description

The research has identified five elements that need to be addressed to create a high-performing team:

  • team leadership, 
  • mutual performance monitoring, 
  • backup behavior, 
  • adaptability, 
  • team orientation.

In addition, there are three coordination mechanisms: shared mental models, closed-loop communication and mutual trust. During the workshop, we will explain these eight concepts and show how to work with them in practice. We will show the perspectives of a Staff Engineer and a Scrum Master. The workshop consists of a short theoretical introduction followed by practical exercises. As a result, we will create a plan for working with a team described in a case study.

11:20-13:00

Workhop II:
Organizational design principles for scaling and a summary of their impact.
Bas Vodde
Workshop Description

Adaptive organizations are optimized to maximize value delivery and the ability to respond to changes in its environment, as opposed to efficiency and predictability. This has been the goal of the agile development movement. Unfortunately agile often ends up in organizations as a shallow process change without having a big impact. Agile processes do have it’s place but in order to achieve adaptiveness organizations have to create simpler organizational structures.

 This session will go over the seven organizational design principles to create simpler organization. Some examples will be shared for each principle usually taken from the LeSS organizational design system. The outcome of this session is an insight in the reasoning behind LeSS or an inspiration to make your organization simpler and more adaptive.

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:30

From Conway’s Law to Cognitive Load: Rethinking Organizational Agility
Błażej Drobniuch
Talk Description
We will dive into some ideas that have been trending in top management circles recently, which actually hinder organizational agility. We will explore, in a thought-provoking way, why these ideas might not be as great as they seem and how to challenge them with solid arguments.
Topics we will explore include:
  • Conway’s Law
  • Cognitive Load
  • Code Ownership
  • “Having to fix someone else’s shitty code at 2 am!”
  • The Flow
In this talk, Blazej will challenge the recently trending approach to designing organizations while engaging the audience interactively. Learn what better organizational design patterns you can use to improve your company’s agility in the era of rapid introduction of GenAI tools for software developers. Get ready for an exciting exchange of ideas and insights!

14:30-15:00

A journey with adaptiveness in a heavily regulated, legacy environment – SoftNet Case Study
Adam Piekarczyk & Oskar Szewczyk

15:00-15:20

Break

15:20-15:50

Async Code Reviews Are Choking Your Company’s Throughput
Dragan Stepanović
Talk Description

“Never had a huge Pull Request that didn’t look good to me”.

We’ve all been there. A PR is so big you don’t even bother properly reviewing. It’s already too late to build the quality in, so you make a sad face, comment “Looks good to me”, and click approve. That’s still the case in lots of teams, but after a long time our industry, on average, learned the value of small batches idea from Lean applied to PRs. And that’s a step in the right direction. We do a bit of coding, raise a PR and then ask for feedback. People are more likely to engage on smaller PRs, it takes them less time to review, and they feel that they can course-correct if something goes astray. PRs go sooner out of the door, and we feel productive as a team.

But, here’s the surprise. What if I told you that teams doing small PRs (with async code reviews) actually have way lower throughput than teams doing big PRs. “Wait, what?!” Yes.

I got this surprising systemic insight from analyzing more than 40,000 PRs, and in this talk, I’ll present you with the results of that study. On the bigger PRs side of the spectrum, we tend to lose quality, while on the smaller PRs end of the spectrum we lose throughput. We’re forced to make a trade-off.

But! There’s a parallel universe of ways of working where you get to have a cake and eat it too. Where you can have both throughput and quality. That universe is called co-creation patterns (Pair and Mob programming).

Join me on a journey where I’ll show you the data invalidating the assumption that two or more people working on the same thing, at the same time will hurt a team’s throughput, and why the opposite is actually the case.

15:50-16:20

Empowering teams through collective knowledge acquisition. Let’s explore the strategies for effective learning.
Jaga Biernacka-Urban & Paweł Urban
Talk Description

Most time spent in the software development process is spent to understand exactly what and why we need to develop (or fix if we got it wrong). therefore knowledge acquisition and sharing is one of the most important assets a high-performing team may have.

This talk addresses key aspects:

  • How deep (or shallow) should team members share the knowledge?
  • Is it more effective to learn from others?
  • Why do people avoid sharing knowledge?
  • Why are mental models so important?
  • What is transactive memory?

During the presentation we will discuss how you can work in a structured way to improve your team’s learning and sharing culture. All this from two complementary perspectives – a developer who happens to act as a Staff Engineer and a Scrum Master.

16:20-16:40

Break

16:40-17:40

How to do a LeSS adoption
Bas Vodde
Talk Description

While LeSS is not hard to understand, it is counterintuitive for organizations. It usually requires structural changes of which the importance is often underestimated. After many many LeSS adoptions, we know what changes and decisions need to be made in your adoption. Not making these changes will lead to predictable problems.

A typical LeSS adoption requires a preparation phase in which certain decisions need to be made. Following that the change is made which is also referred to as the flip. The change is only the beginning and the first six months will require gradual improvement.

This talk describes a typical LeSS adoption. It will cover:

  • The main decisions to be made in the preparation phase.
  • Usual activities done during the flip.
  • What the improvement focus should be in the first six months.
  • What the continuous improvement paths are afterwards.

17:40-18:00

Closure

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till May 1st 2024

400 PLN + VAT

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till September 1st 2024

600 PLN + VAT

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till November 1st 2024

800 PLN + VAT

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till December 2nd 2024

1000 PLN + VAT

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Venue

TalkLeSS Conference Venue

ADN Conference Center

Browary Warszawskie
Building GH; Entrance B
Grzybowska 56 Street
00-844 Warsaw

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