Karim Harbott (6 Enablers of Business Agility Author), Certified LeSS Trainer Interview

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How has Karim Harbott been so immensely successful?

Is it his charm, his looks or his ridiculously in-depth knowledge of all things agility?

Well, you can be the judge. In this episode, Karim Harbott, author of the Six Enablers of Business Agility and host Ben Maynard chat about what matters most to them about Large Scale Scrum, why scaling agile is such a challenge and how they have been successful in doing so in the past.

So if you want to:

• Learn more about what it takes to become a Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) trainer
• Discover why Agility and Efficiency are an OR not an AND
• Is it more rewarding, in Karim's opinion, to do things the hard way or the easy way
• Understand why agile transformations are like trying to bend 100-year-old trees with your bare hands
• Find out what Karim's 2 favourite Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Adoptions are (well one was LeSS Like but we will let him off)
• Learn what Karim think's should have been more popular in the agile world
• Discover what provoked Karim to write his book, The 6 Enablers of Business Agility 

Stuff that was spoken about

• Karim's LeSS Case Study - TomCommerce
• Specification by Example - Here at LeSS.Works
• This is Bas and Craig's First LeSS Book, the once Karim read and learnt LeSS from - Scaling Lean & Agile Development Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
• This is their second book, the one Ben read and learnt LeSS from - Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
• For completeness, here is the third bo

Host Bio

Ben is a seasoned expert in product agility coaching, unleashing the potential of people and products. With over a decade of experience, his focus now is product-led growth & agility in organisations of all sizes.

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