CERTIFIED LeSS PRACTITIONER

See the full course description at LeSS.works. 

Trainer: Craig Larman, co-creator of LeSS

Learn with Craig Larman—the co-creator of LeSS—in this 3-day highly-participative course. Participants (senior managers, agile coaches, ...) get a thorough understanding of LeSS, Large-Scale Scrum, for scaling agile development to many teams working together on one product. In-depth, we explore adoption, new organizational design, systems thinking & optimization, the role of management, and very concretelyhow to work together in a Sprint at scale in terms of coordination, architecture, planning, and much more. 

(Aside, but noteworthy: Course runs until 18:00 on day 3; for certification, full attendance required)

Critically, we explore the Big Idea of more with LeSS: simplifying & descaling over "scaling", or... scaling product development by descaling the organization.

Perhaps most importantly and interestingly, this course runs mostly as a series of "at giant whiteboards" deep-thinking exercises involving systems modeling in small teams to explore why, so that people can own the ideas by discovering them for themselves, rather than "renting" the ideas. A focus on why and owning not renting are important elements of LeSS and how it's learned, and Craig emphasizes this in the course learning experience.

Join Larman for a deep dive into more with LeSS, based on his long experience with LeSS adoptions.

Feedback from previous courses

“It was inspiring to discuss Large-Scale Scrum with Craig Larman. The content of the course was top-notch.” – Steve Alexander

“The delivery was outstanding and the supporting material vast and detailed.” – Simone Zecchi“The best course I have ever been on. Totally blown away.” – Simon Powers

In addition to course material, each participant will also receive 3 books on LeSS:

• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
• Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
• Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

LeSS Overview

• LeSS principles, frameworks, guides, experiments
• two LeSS frameworks: basic & LeSS Huge
• learning resources

Adoption

• pre-adoption: building interest
• the adoption guides
• 3 principles
• getting started
• scope of first adoption
• stories of LeSS adoptions 

Local Optimization & System Optimization 

• local versus global systems optimization
• local optimization in planning
• local optimization in in analysis & design
• local optimization in programming & technology

Adoption: Organizing by Customer Value 

• towards global optimization: multiple feature teams on one product
• adoption & organizational design implications of feature teams
• 3 types of development
• where is the Product Owner?
• discovering/defining your product scope in LeSS
• incremental change: feature-team adoption mapping

Why LeSS?

• shu-ha-ri and frameworks
• empirical process control
• why "More with LeSS"?
• systems optimization
• occupational psychology
• lean thinking & value-driven

LeSS Sprint 

• preparation meetings before first Sprint
• Sprint Planning with many teams
• coordination & integration: from communities to architecture
• scaling Product Backlog Refinement
• scaling the Sprint Review & Retrospective
• multisite

Done & Undone in LeSS 

• perfect and imperfect Done
• improvement, organizational design, and Done
• handling Undone
• shipping and DevOps

LeSS Rules 

• rules for smaller LeSS framework
• rules for LeSS Huge

LeSS Huge Framework

• Requirement Areas
• Area Product Owners
• role of Overall Product Owner
• Area Backlogs
• adoption

More on LeSS Principles 

• systems thinking and causal-loop modeling
• whole-product focus
• lean thinking
• queuing theory

More on LeSS Roles

• Managers in a LeSS organization
• ScrumMasters at scale
• Product Owner in LeSS

Details:

After successful course completion (attending full-time, etc)...

All participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here you can find:

• (free) digital versions of the first and third LeSS books
• more LeSS learning (videos, etc)
• the course handout PDF and photos of everything created within the course that was on the walls
• contacts of all course participants
• a course certificate