Product Agility Beginnings of Agile and Beginnings Of LeSS Adoptions - Rowan Bunning Part 1 of 2
This conversation is a fascinating insight into what it was like being one of the very early adopters of some of the most impactful agile techniques & Why LeSS Is Scrum Done Right
Rowan and I have decades of experience in the agile and what became clear during our conversation was that we got very lucky being around agile in the early days.
So who is Rowan?
Rowan Bunning is an Australian pioneer of Scrum having become one of Australia's first ScrumMasters in 2003, Australia’s first Certified Scrum Practitioner® (CSP) in 2006 and Certified Scrum Trainer® (CST) in early 2008. With a background in software development, including with eXtreme Programming, he was hired as an Agile Coach by one of Europe's foremost Agile consultancies in 2007.
What Did We Speak About?
🗝️ What happens when the degrees of separation from the original Agile thinker's increases?
🗝️IsTeam Topologies trying to solve problems that Large Scale Scrum chooses not to prioritise addressing?
🗝️What is the Scrum little Black Book
🗝️ What is the relationship between XP, Smalltalk and Simplicity in organisation design?
🗝️What is it like begining a LeSS Adoption when the Organisation's goals do not align with LeSS?
🗝️ How does Rowan bring leadership misalignment into the light?
🗝️What would Rowan do with a clone of himself?
🗝️What is one of the first things that seems to degrade when an organisation gets bigger?
🗝️Why is orienting yourself with agile, as a beginner, more challenging these days?
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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