Social Aspects of LeSS

TRENDS

Team
System
Continuous Integration
People
Environment
Human Behavior
Growing
Coordination between teams
Cross-team coordination
Interdependent work
Shared responsibility
Shared work product
Cross-functional teams
Co-located teams
Long-lived teams
Organizational coaching
The Product Owner is outward focused on customers as well as inward focused on the teams, i.e he/she behaves as a connector between the two.
Synchronizing work with other members of the team as part of ‘continuous integration’.
The feature teams are aligned to creating end-to-end customer centric features.

Mailing lists
Chat
Occasional meetings
Leadership meetings-leads or managers getting together for a leadership meeting
Some concepts that relate to Product Owner are- product development, internal (product) development, project development.
Teams must adopt ‘continuous integration’ of code which involves taking time out to go through code written by peers as well.
When there is much preference given to a customer domain, teams are led to more structuring decisions.
Teams need to be self-managing in terms of being able to execute tasks and manage and monitor process and progress.

Daily Scrum meetings
The Product Owner works on activities such as prioritizing items in the product backlog and clarification of items in the backlog.
Coordination between teams takes place through “Just talking”.
Most teams and manager follow lean management.

Large changes to a stable system will destabilize and break it in large ways
People working together creates conflict
Unresolved conflict has a negative impact on team performance and creates a dysfunctional team atmosphere
Sometimes, the goal of a Scrum Meeting can become obsolete, in such a case if the Product Owner stills continues to go ahead with it, the session becomes less productive.
If people working on the same components/modules are not in constant communication about the status of their work, there could be overlap of feature or other functional implementations.