Appendix B: Guides

More with LeSS 1

LeSS 5

Adoption 55

Guide: Three Adoption Principles 57

Guide: Getting Started 61

Guide: Culture Follows Structure 66

Guide: Job Safety but not Role Safety 68

Guide: Organizational Perfection Vision 68

Guide: Continuous Improvement 71

Guide: Growing Your Adoption 73

Guide: Evolutionary Incremental Adoption 75

Guide: One Requirement Area at a Time 76

Guide: Parallel Organizations 76

Organize by Customer Value 79

Guide: Build Team-Based Organizations 81

Guide: Understanding Feature Teams 83

Guide: Feature-Team Adoption Maps 92

Guide: Prefer Specialization in Customer Domain 97

Guide: LeSS Organizational Structure 99

Guide: Organizing Multi-Site in LeSS 102

Guide: Requirement Areas 104

Guide: Dynamics of Requirement Areas 107

Guide: Transitioning to Feature Teams 108

Guide: LeSS Huge Organization 111

Management 115

Guide: Understand Taylor and Fayol 117

Guide: Theory Y Management 119

Guide: Managers Are Optional 122

Guide: The LeSS Organization 123

Guide: Go See 127

Guide: Managers as Teachers and Learners 130

Guide: Both Domain and Technical Capability 131

Guide: LeSS Metrics with Less Targets 132

Guide: Management Reading List 133

Scrum Masters 137

Guide: Scrum Master Focus 139

Guide: Five Scrum Master Tools 143

Guide: Large-Group Facilitation 145

Guide: Promote Learning & Multiple Skills 146

Guide: Community Work 146

Guide: Scrum Master Survival Guide 148

Guide: Scrum Master Reading List 151

Guide: Especially Pay Attention To... 152

Guide: Avoid Requirement Area Silos 153

Product 157

Guide: What Is Your Product? 159

Guide: Define Your Product 164

Guide: Expanding Product Definition 170

Guide: Product over Project or Program 170

Product Owner 173

Guide: Who Should be Product Owner? 175

Guide: Start Early or Messy with a Temporary Fake Product Owner 178

Guide: Who Are Those Users/Customers? 179

Guide: Prioritization over Clarification 180

Guide: Don’t Do It 180

Guide: Product Owner Helpers 181

Guide: Five Relationships 182

Guide: Customer Collaborations over... 189

Guide: Ship at Least Every Sprint 191

Guide: Don’t Be Nice 191

Guide: Let Go 192

Guide: Don’t Let Undone Work Be Your Undoing 193

Guide: LeSS Meetings 194

Guide: LeSS Huge Product Owner 195

Guide: Area Product Owners 196

Guide: PO Team Helped by Scrum Master 197

Product Backlog 199

Guide: Don’t “Manage Dependencies” but Minimize Constraints 200

Guide: Take a Bite 204

Guide: Dealing with Parents 206

Guide: Handling Special Items 209

Guide: Tools for Large Product Backlogs 212

Guide: More Outcome, less Output 215

Guide: Area Backlogs 217

Guide: Three Levels Max 224

Guide: New Area for Giant Requirement 225

Guide: Handling Gigantic Requirements 226

Definition of Done 231

Guide: Creating the Definition of Done 233

Guide: Evolve the Definition of Done 242

Product Backlog Refinement 249

Guide: Product Backlog Refinement Types 251

Guide: Overall PBR 253

Guide: Multi-Team PBR 254

Guide: Multi-Site PBR 256

Guide: Initial PBR 257

Guide: Splitting 262

Guide: Scaling Estimation 271

Sprint Planning 277

Guide: Sprint Planning One 278

Guide: Multi-Team Sprint Planning Two 282

Guide: No Software Tools for Sprint Backlog 283

Guide: Product Owner Team Meeting 285

Coordination & Integration 287

Guide: Just Talk 289

Guide: Coordination-Friendly Environment 291

Guide: Communicate in Code 294

Guide: Integrate Continuously 295

Guide: Communities 298

Guide: Cross-Team Meetings 301

Guide: Multi-Team Design Workshop 303

Guide: Current-Architecture Workshop 305

Guide: Component Mentors 306

Guide: Open Space 308

Guide: Travelers 309

Guide: Scouts 310

Guide: Maybe Don’t Do Scrum of Scrums 310

Guide: Leading Team 311

Guide: Mix and Match Techniques 312

Review & Retrospective 315

Guide: Adapt the Product Early and Often 317

Guide: Review Bazaar 318

Guide: Overall Retrospective 319

Guide: Improve the System 322

Guide: Multi-Area Reviews & Retrospectives 327

What’s Next? 331