Ran is an experienced software professional who has worked since 1995 in professional software development field. Currently, Ran is working as a consultant and trainer in process improvement field helping large multinational organizations to move from sequential product development to more agile ways of working. The primary focus has been on how to move big products (over 100 people) to use Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Lean. This work includes giving wide range of trainings, workshops, team coaching and management consulting.
Ran was visiting Poland and gave a short talk about LeSS in Warsaw Agile Meetup 23 Nov. 2015 for over 100 Agile enthusiasts.
There are two very different strategies in adopting Agile in a large organisation, horizontal or vertical. In other words, you may take one product first with narrow and deep focus. Or you may focus on the vertical coordination layer, which is often perceived as The Scaling Problem.
A new network gateway was developed from clean table in half the time. The work started with two teams and in the end there were over 20 distributed teams. LeSS principles were used all the time.
Agile Scaling frameworks LeSS and SAFe have a history with Nokia. What problem were they solving and how?
Experience report about Large-Scale Scrum and agile acceptance testing presented in XP2010 that was held in Trondheim, Norway.