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As organisations grow, the complexity of managing multiple teams often leads to inefficiencies and a loss of agility. The challenge then becomes: can we scale what works so naturally in small-scale development across larger organisations? The answer is yes, with Large Scale Scrum (#LeSS). Created by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde, who sought to apply Scrum principles to larger organisations in a more streamlined and effective way. The LeSS is an agile framework designed for scaling Scrum across multiple teams working on a single product. Unlike other scaling frameworks that introduce complex layers, LeSS focuses on simplicity, transparency, and delivering customer value. Find out how to get large scale success through LeSS via our blog blow: Paul Hutton Michaela Broeckx 🌿 Gretel Darby Eric Wong CHEE THOE LOH Anis Shakirah

📣 Meet Phongsak Ritpitakphong and Chokchai Phatharamalai share their experience in "LeSS Example" at the LeSS Conference Singapore. 💡 Get to know the tangible evidence of how teams operate in large-scale product development environments. They will illustrate the challenges and outcomes of cultural transformation through actionable steps, offering real-life examples of how LeSS principles foster team collaboration and improve product development. This presentation aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice, showing the benefits of adopting LeSS in real-world scenarios. 📅 One more day before registration closes! https://lnkd.in/g2i6Pc2q

✨ Introducing Nicholas Li, speaker for “Battle for Agility: LeSSons from the Trenches” at the LeSS Conference Singapore! 💡 Gain valuable insights into how GovTech’s Business Grants Portal tackled challenges such as: - Siloed, inflexible teams - Multiple backlogs - A lack of product-centric focus 📅 Sign up before registration closes on 18 Oct https://lnkd.in/g2i6Pc2q #LeSSSG #LeSSWorks

A special mention to Titansoft Pte Ltd for sponsoring the first LeSS Conference in Singapore! We deeply appreciate their support in making this event possible. Be sure to visit their booth during the conference! #LeSSSG #LeSSWorks

Since 2016, LeSS Conferences have been running annually in the U.S. and Europe. November 4 will be the first time a LeSS conference happens in SE Asia, and thanks to the gracious energy and indomitable efforts of the LeSS Singapore community, our Little Red Dot is where LeSS is going to get its Asian spotlight. It is hoped that this will create awareness and support for Large Scale Scrum practitioners present and future in the region and globally. I have been into Scrum for a whole long while now. I have been writing about my Scrum journey intensively, a/o on Medium, and I am in the process of compiling a little book on the subject (ETA end of November). I have been teaching and advocating. I am a fan. And I am no stranger to Scrum community volunteering. But although I have earned my Scrum stripes in a great variety of sectors, both software and non-software, I am fairly new to the concept of scaling Scrum to large groups. Then again, my interest in working with large groups has been growing with the years - even in my facilitation work. Where earlier I would have expressed a preferable group size of no more than twelve, I currently love big rooms and I don't say no to groups of even 150 people. All the above is why when Stanly Lau, Salman Mohd Sultan, Ivan Zimine, PhD, Ziqing Lau, and Michaela Broeckx 🌿 asked me to join them as volunteers for the upcoming event, I didn't think twice and I said yes of course. So now I am looking forward to co-hosting a memorable day, learning from top-notch speakers and practitioners, and meeting up with friends old and new. To join us there, register here: https://lnkd.in/ggziXV6E #LeSSSG #scrum #largescalescrum #singapore #LeSSworks #agile #agilemethodologies #conference #LeSSconferenceSG2024

If you haven’t already heard about Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), it's one of the earliest approaches to scaling Scrum that stays true to Scrum principles. This is particularly important given that most unsuccessful attempts at scaling Agile are due to a misdirected focus on methods and practices, rather than organisational patterns — often leading to the framework being wrongly blamed. The LeSS Conference is worth attending because the speakers bring real, on-the-ground experience in helping large organisations become effective at Scrum, and therefore, Agile. If you’ve ever worked as a Scrum Master, you’ll know that no Scrum team exists in isolation — by both definition and necessity, your work involves the entire organisation. Without even a vicarious understanding of how to approach this, your chances of success are slim. For the first time ever, the LeSS Conference is coming to Singapore on 4th November. This presents a rare opportunity to learn from thought leaders who’ve worked their way up from Scrum Masters to become highly effective organisational change agents. These are great human beings who, for decades, have demonstrated the courage and humility to reflect on their approaches, own their mistakes, and improve every time — AT SCALE. Come join us at the 2024 LeSS Conference Singapore. Agile Singapore members and attendees of the Regional Scrum Gathering™ Singapore are eligible for a special discount — PM me for details. Craig Larman Bas Vodde Stanly Lau LeSS Singapore Odd-e #LeSS #Scrum #ScalingAgile #OrganisationalChange #ThoughtLeadership #CommunityLearning

📆 We are less than one month away from the 4 Nov LeSS Conference here in Singapore! Did I already tell you how excited I am about this?🤪 That's the reason why I volunteered to be part of the marketing team... hence this post. There is one talk in particular that I want to highlight with this post, and that's Maya Kartika's about '𝙁𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙂𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙎𝙚𝙡𝙛-𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨'. I see, experience and feel the impact of her work at DKATALIS every time I meet those self-managing teams. Maya will be sharing stories about Bank Jago's journey towards the scalable and adaptive organisation it is today, and the challenges and learnings along the way. As Head of Communication, Culture, and Sustainability at PT Bank Jago Tbk she knows like no other what it takes to build a culture of growth for self-managing teams and what they need to succeed, shift and soar on the winds of change. 🍃 Hope to see you all there at One Farrer Hotel, on Nov 4. 💌 If you really want to join and require some financial assistance please let me know. We have some 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗮! More info: https://lnkd.in/g-cqtZn8 #LeSSWorks #SystemsThinking LeSS Singapore LeSS.works Odd-e #LeSSSG #LeSSconference2024 #Scrum #LargeScaleScrum Gratitude to Ekipa Agile Consultancy Singapore

I used not to be too worried about certifications. Better qualification and no cert than certification but no quality. Also in the culture and generation that I grew up it all mattered less. Of great importance was earning at least one but preferably two or three Master degrees. Only a select few of us would go on and get a doctorate, after which that was it. A doctorate used to be the qualification of a researcher - and unless one stayed on in academia and one devoted their life to actual methodological research, it made little sense to keep using the title - and I dare say, the "honoris causa" has always been more of a political issue than anything else. The certification industry was virtually non-existant, then. Because yes, it truly is this: an industry, where one spends loads of money to buy a certain badge, which generally says very little or close to nothing about one's true qualities and qualifications. Unless one chooses programs and delivery facilitators or teachers with due diligence and care. I had formidable teachers teaching me Sanskrit, Tokharian dialects, and Pali. There is not a day I do not feel blessed to have been in their gurushishyaparamparā (teacher-student lineage). In the world of Scrum, getting a first level Scrum Master or Product Owner certification is all too easy. In most cases, spend some money and sit in for a day or two and it's done. We are very fortunate that this changes with levels 2 ("advanced") and 3 ("professional"). In my case, both these certs have come hard-earned one after the other, with many years of intense practice, study, reflection, community service, and many hundreds of hours of analysis, writing, sharing, mentoring, and teaching. And I have had the enormous pleasure of having crossed lifepaths with Tobias Mayer, the best imaginable Scrum advocate, teacher, mentor, and friend. Even the first level cert program, Tobias manages to transform into a piece of art. Then, imagine staying the whole curriculum. From where in my case the paramparā now seems to lead to LeSS. LeSS is large-scale Scrum as practiced and taught by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman and others. LeSS makes a lot of sense and #LeSSworks. I am doing baby steps, one at a time. I am not ready yet for certs in this field. But perhaps you are? One of my baby steps is voluneering for the community at the #LeSSconference in Singapore, Nov 4, where you can meet up with me and a whole razmataz of much more proficient practitioners and gifted speakers and teachers. If you are anywhere in SE Asia, surely you'll bless us with your participation? Register here: https://lnkd.in/ggziXV6E LeSS Singapore, LeSS.works, Odd-e #LeSSSG #LeSSconference2024 #Singapore #Scrum #LargeScaleScrum Michaela Broeckx 🌿, Salman Mohd Sultan, Stanly Lau, Ivan Zimine, PhD, Ziqing Lau [image: working with large groups in Jakarta, 2023]

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After a fantastic week spent with facilitation work and friends old and new in Hong Kong, there can hardly be a better way to come home to Singapore than crossing roads and having brunch with Mark McKergow and Jenny Clarke, the warm and inspiring initiators, space creators, and hosts of both the Solutions Focused Coaching and Host Leadership communities worldwide and here in Asia in particular. My long-lasting interest and involvement with both practices are of course no secret to anyone who is or has been praticipating in any of my programs. My particular take on leading or facilitating communities as a host, rests on a wide foundation of practices, from buddhist monastic principles to Ashok's Decade of Good Governance, Rabindranath Tagore, Batesonian philosophy, Yoshi Oida, Scrum mastery, Agile coaching, and common-sense social constructivism in modern OD and organizational design and development. And there: what tops it all is sharing a sense of being each other's easy guests and having meaningful conversations with Mark and Jenny and Michaela Broeckx 🌿 on a Saturday morning at Tiong Bahru, Singapore. Jérôme Bourgeon, Ruben Canlas Jr., Brent Byron Q., Baijesh Ramesh, Nora Bateson, Ludovic Curtil, Sam Chia 谢惠森 #solutionsfocus #hostleadership #kishotenketsu #resourcefulexformation