1. More with LeSS

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren’t there.

—Gordon Bell

• Why LeSS? •

Why did Scrum adoption explode during the last decade? This is the question we toyed with at a hawker center in Singapore, over a beer.

Some say it was due to the simplistic certification model. Perhaps. But another agile method, DSDM, provided certification before Scrum yet never became as widespread.

Others say the availability of Scrum Master courses made the difference. Ken Schwaber’s original Scrum Master course has indeed had a strong influence. Yet, Extreme Programming had the XP Immersion course first and isn’t as common.

Perhaps it’s the simplicity of Scrum that made the difference? Compared to XP, Scrum provides ...

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