Guide: Three Adoption Principles 57
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
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: Dynamics of Requirement Areas 107
Guide: Transitioning to Feature Teams 108
Guide: LeSS Huge Organization 111
Guide: Understand Taylor and Fayol 117
Guide: Theory Y Management 119
Guide: Managers Are Optional 122
Guide: The LeSS Organization 123
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
Guide: Five Scrum Master Tools 143
Guide: Large-Group Facilitation 145
Guide: Promote Learning & Multiple Skills 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
Guide: What Is Your Product? 159
Guide: Define Your Product 164
Guide: Expanding Product Definition 170
Guide: Product over Project or Program 170
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: Product Owner Helpers 181
Guide: Customer Collaborations over... 189
Guide: Ship at Least Every Sprint 191
Guide: Don’t Let Undone Work Be Your Undoing 193
Guide: LeSS Huge Product Owner 195
Guide: Area Product Owners 196
Guide: PO Team Helped by Scrum Master 197
Guide: Don’t “Manage Dependencies” but Minimize Constraints 200
Guide: Dealing with Parents 206
Guide: Handling Special Items 209
Guide: Tools for Large Product Backlogs 212
Guide: More Outcome, less Output 215
Guide: New Area for Giant Requirement 225
Guide: Handling Gigantic Requirements 226
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: 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: Coordination-Friendly Environment 291
Guide: Communicate in Code 294
Guide: Integrate Continuously 295
Guide: Cross-Team Meetings 301
Guide: Multi-Team Design Workshop 303
Guide: Current-Architecture Workshop 305
Guide: Maybe Don’t Do Scrum of Scrums 310
Guide: Mix and Match Techniques 312
Guide: Adapt the Product Early and Often 317
Guide: Overall Retrospective 319