PandaDocs Agile Power Duo On Features and 5x Growth: Evgeniy Labunskiy & Denis Salnikov

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Evgeniy and Denis are both Heads of Agile Practice at PandaDoc. They joined Ben to share trials faced during the Global pandemic and when growing to five times their original size (whilst still getting their product to market). They also share how they started with Large Scale Scrum, LeSS, to achieve their dreams of Feature Teams.

The big questions for me were

• Why did they embrace Feature teams (teams who can deliver all features end-to-end)?  
• How do they get the whole organisation behind the idea of a whole organisational change? 
• What problems have they encountered, and what are they doing now to overcome them?

Here are some of the highlights

• 00:04:05 - Who or What is Panda Doc?
• 00:05:22 - What was the starting point for the journey of the Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) & Feature Teams? 
• 00:10:32 - Did they choose LeSS & Feature Teams, or did they choose them?
• 00:12:14 - Starting a LeSS Adoption with or without formal LeSS Training?
• 00:14:13 - The negative side effect of not getting Certified LeSS Training for their adoption
• 00:15:21 - How growth dilutes an organisation's purpose when using Feature Teams
• 00:18:22 - Then Denis joined...
• 00:22:16 - Top-Down and Bottom-Up Adoption
• 00:23:49 - How 5 x Growth can affect an outstanding engineering culture
• 00:27:00 - What effect did the Covid Pandemic & the war in Ukraine have on PandaDoc

Guest Bios

Denis Salnikov is a certified Scrum Master, Kanban Coach & Agile Coach who has been consulting, coaching, mentoring, and teaching cross-functional development teams, management, and organisations since 2014.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsalnikov23/

Evgeniy Labunski has over a decade of experience in Agile within Product Development, Enterprise & Startups.  He is a strategic thinker, a skilled resolver of conflict and lives and breaths flexibility and adaptability.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/labunskiy/

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.

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