Product Agility

Ben Maynard
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Sep 27, 2022 • 15min

Welcoming The Newest LeSS Trainer Robert Batůšek - LeSS Conference 2022

Send us a textIts always exciting when a mentee achieves something epic.Having mentored Robert through the Certified LeSS Trainer process it was a nothing but joy to meet up with him in Warsaw to talk about that journey and his brilliant case study.Roberts Solarwinds Case Study Robert on LinkedInHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 26, 2022 • 46min

Konstantin Ribel - Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Trainer Interview

Send us a textKonstantin Ribel is an Organisational Design Consultant & Certified LeSS Trainer with nearly a decade of experience.This experience spans both hardware and software in the medical and automotive worlds. Understandably this leads him to have some unique and thought-provoking insights into making multi-team  agile really work. There is no better testament to this than his HUGE LeSS Huge case study at BMW Autonomous Driving.He is a great conversationalist and apparently the world's youngest Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Trainer.It will be no surprise to hear we have a 💥blast💥We of course covered the standard Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) trainer questions:✨ What is your elevator pitch for LeSS?✨ Did you choose LeSSor did LeSSchoose you?✨ What’s the one thing, above all others, you love about LeSS?✨ What was your favorite LeSS adoption?✨ If you could change one thing about LeSS what would it be?Here is a bit of a tease as to what you will hear (just in case the above wasn't enough):🏎️ Agile Convincers Vs. Agile Coaches🏎️ Should people sell Large Scale Scrum?🏎️ What is the difference between owning and renting ideas? 🏎️ Doe's the LeSS community ideal of "owning not renting" jar with the LeSS guidance of "adoption"? 🏎️ Konstantin's love of the purity and elegance of LeSS🏎️How Scrum reduced Bens's Anxiety🏎️What about LeSS that made Konstantin resonate like a tuning fork?🏎️Why did Konstantin have to choose between hardware and software?🏎️What doe's Konstantin believe are the "mechanics" of LeSS?🏎️What feels better a quick fix or a more permanent one?🏎️What has been Konstantisns favorite part of the BMW LeSS adoption🏎️And what was his least?  Here are some tasty links for you:🔗Konstantin's Website🔗KHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 23, 2022 • 15min

Agile Adoptions, Why Do they Make Us Feel Like Imposters: Artem Bykovets at the LeSS Conference 2022

Send us a textArtem grabbed me at the LeSS Conference 2022 because he wanted to talk about something important to him, turns out it was important to me too.Why do Agile adoptions make agile coaches feel like imposters? And Why is the pull of status quo so hard?There are a few golden nuggets in this chat,  Artem is wise beyond his years.Here is what Artem would like you to know about himArtem Bykovets - trainer, LeSS coach, leadership and organizational consultantConducts various trainings, workshops and lectures for companies of various sizes and specializations. Launches and supports companies on the path of organizational & Agile transformation.More than 11 years on the market, worked with teams in the following areas: IT, retail and pricing, gambling, multimedia, hardware, telecom, banks, CRM and others.Founder of Simplesense. and creator of the Simplicity Day conference. Co-organizer of the #AgileWithUkraine initiative.Links:+ https://www.abykovets.com/en + https://www.agilewithukraine.com/+ https://www.linkedin.com/in/abykovets+ https://youtube.com/c/ArtemBykovetsHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 22, 2022 • 12min

LeSS Conference Talk in 10 - Błażej Drobniuch: Sprint Review: Our tendency for irrelevant things

Send us a textA talk in 10...Abstract:Let's discuss the crucial aspect of Sprint Review that is often overlooked due to our tendency to focus on irrelevant things.Description:On the talk, you will have an opportunity to participate in a small aquarium simulation based on a real business case of a Sprint Review.Together, we observe and evaluate where and why we spend most of our time.Finally I'll share my LeSS experiment helping to tackle this problem!Already curious?Website https://www.fesle.eu/LeSS talk: https://less.works/conferenza/sessions/2022-less-conference-warsaw-sprint-review-our-tendency-for-irrelevant-things-268His LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drobniuchHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 22, 2022 • 12min

LeSS Conference Talk in 10 - Denis Salnikov: Hypergrowth vs LeSS: experience from the trenches

Send us a textA talk in ten...You can find details of the talk hereHypergrowth (or “Blitzscaling” in words of Chris Yeh and Reid Hoffman) has become an obsession and a "by default" path for successful start-ups. It is expected by investors, it is treated as means of producing more outputs by founders and it represents a significant challenge for both the structure and processes. In my talk, I would like to share my story of dealing with such a situation at two start-ups that were adopting LeSS. I will dive into the system dynamics the hypergrowth has produced in both cases, and share the challenges we have faced, experiments we have applied to address or mitigate those and outcomes they led to.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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 22, 2022 • 39min

Is LeSS Betamax to SAFe's VHS - Ben Maynard Live From the LeSS Conference 2022

Send us a textThis is the uncut version of the talk Ben gave at the LeSS conference 2022 in WarsawIs Large Scale Scrum (#LeSS) Betamax to #SAFe's VHS (or perhaps S&S LaserDisc)? Betamax was a videotape (remember those) format that was superior to its main competitor VHS. History tells us that the customers mainly cared about cost rather than image, sound and build quality and, to compound this, JVC (creators of the VHS format) allowed anyone, regardless of their manufacturing quality to create VHS machines. The result? VHS was increasingly affordable, proliferated and soon Betamax was gradually resigned to the history books... Join me for an exploration into what the future may hold for LeSS and of the many untold LeSS stories that I have uncovered through the recording of my LeSS Matters podcast.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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 19, 2022 • 11min

Konstantin Ribel - What Should Have Been Bigger in the Agile World? What Will be the Next BIG Thing?

Send us a textKonstantin Ribel is an Organisational Design Consultant & Certified LeSS Trainer with nearly a decade of experience. This experience spans both hardware and software in the medical and automotive worlds. Understandably this leads him to have some unique and thought-provoking insights into making multi-team  agile really work. There is no better testament to this than his HUGE LeSS Huge case study at BMW Autonomous Driving. He is a great conversationalist and apparently the world's youngest Certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Trainer. In this episode, Konstantin does a brilliant job at explaining why the next big thing in the agile world should be something that should have been bigger and it makes Ben think about how that thing could act as something between a rigorous and dedicated yoga programme and industrial strength pain killers that can make organisational flexing, ultimately, less painful.And what else??!🏎️ What is the seismic shift that's needed to make Konstantin's agile dreams come true?🏎️ If it is true that the bigger the organisation the more painful it is to remain flexible, is this why when they adapt too far too soon it's painful and often snaps back to the status quo? (this is what Ben calls the FIP). 🏎️ An update on how is Ben's mid-life crisis manifesting? Here are some tasty links for you:🔗Konstantin's Website🔗Konstantins LeSS Courses🔗Konstantin Ribel on LinkedIn🔗Extreme Programming🔗HUGE LeSS Huge case study at BMW Autonomous DrivingHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 12, 2022 • 41min

Wolfgang Steffens - Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Trainer Interview

Send us a textWolfi is a passionate coach with more than 10 years of experience in large-scale Lean and Agile Product Development. What did he do when Craig Larman and Bas Vodde arrived at his place of work in 2005? He started learning. Since coaching his first Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) adoption in 2007 he has continued to support several organizations within Nokia Siemens Networks, and in 2010 he coached a 1000+ people organization on their SAFe adoption.With all this experience and expertise in project and programme management, it was always going to be another great interview to add to the list.We of course covered the standard Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) trainer questions:👟 What is your elevator pitch for LeSS?👟 Did you choose LeSS or did LeSS choose you?👟 What’s the one thing, above all others, you love about LeSS?👟 What was your favourite LeSS adoption?👟 If you could change one thing about LeSS what would it be?Not only that by listening to this you will be able to:🐶 Tell your friends what in Wolfi's opinion is the crucial element of LeSS🐶 Save yourself time by being told what do you get when you google "Descaling"🐶 Know forever how Wolfi describes the term "Descaling"🐶 Still have no idea what apples have to do with descaling🐶Know whether or not  Wolfi and Ben be opening a Kettle company.🐶Finally know what was the big thing about LeSS that made sense to Wolfi's ex-Programme Manager's mind?🐶Answer the question "Does Programme and Project Management ever have a role in a Large Scale Scrum environment?"🐶 Know what is it about LeSS that Wolfi believes makes it rigorous?🐶Describe Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) can help with your mould problem in your bathroom🐶Explain what are 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Sep 5, 2022 • 4min

Wolfgang Steffens - What Will Be The Next Big Thing In Agile?

Send us a textWolfgang Steffens is a passionate, energetic, inspiring, and authentic coach with 10+ years of experience in large-scale Lean and Agile Global Product Development💼He is a Certified LeSS Trainer &  Coach, Systems Thinker who started his agile learning in 2005 when he was introduced to Scrum and Agile for the first time⏰Wolfi is a sterling chap (as we would say in England) and I was excited to ask him...📣"What Will Be the Next Big Thing in the Agile World"📣His response was not at all what I was expecting!!Stay up-to-date with us on our social media!LeSS Matters website - https://www.lessmatters.co.ukLinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/less-matters-communityTwitter - https://twitter.com/LeSSMattersCommHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80
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Aug 29, 2022 • 17min

Ben Maynard & Jac Hughes - The Swimmers Body Illusion

Send us a textJac Hughes spends most of his days providing presently surprising agile support at his company Everday Agile.If you haven't already done so you should really check out his videos, they make me jealous they are so good 💘In this episode, Jac educates me about something I knew nothing about, The Swimmers Body Illusion. At first, I thought it was a classic magic trick, but no, turns out it is actually something very useful for us agile change agents. 🏊 Will swimming every day alone make you as ripped as a swimmer with chees grater abs? 🏊What does it have to do with copy and paste agility (definitely not talking about the Spotify model)🏊Why Jac feels like agility like a full tank of petrol🏊Why overlaying scrum on what already exists, is always bad news🏊 What are the effects over empowerment? 🏊 What was Ben's big app idea you are welcome to steal?🏊 Hear Jac say the words "Sexy UI in front and Dog Toffee at the back", still not sure what it means💥💥!!Boom!!💥💥Useful linksA brilliant book on Team Coaching - Building Top Performing TeamsSome stuff on the Swimmers body illusion that isn't as good as what we said, honestKanban maturity model to show leaders like Jac doesAdaptivity fit - a really interesting and useful tool for engaging with leaders on an agile journeyHost 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. Stay up-to-date with us on our social media📱! Ben Maynard 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/benmaynard-sheev/ 🐦 https://x.com/BenWMaynard 💻 https://sheev.co.uk/ Product Agility Podcast 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/company/productagilitypod/ 💻 https://productagilitypod.co.uk/ 🖇️ https://linktr.ee/productagility Listen & Share On Spotify & iTunes Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/0lkwAYJzVSuk5zfJ1vIDZq?si=4c691fb12f124a56 iTunes - https://apple.co/3YvTX8p Want to come on the podcast? Want to be a guest or have a guest request? Let us know here https://bit.ly/49osN80

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