Certified LeSS Practitioner - Principles to Practices
For more about LeSS, see http://less.works
In this 3-day highly-participative course, participants get a thorough introduction to LeSS. And people are introduced to — and practice — Systems Thinking with Causal Loop Modeling. There will also be an in-depth clinic with Craig Larman, the co-creator of LeSS, based on his long experience with Large-Scale Scrum adoptions.
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
The course outline includes...
Why LeSS?
Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
LeSS Organizational Design
LeSS Principles
LeSS Rules
Two LeSS Frameworks
Multiple Feature Teams on One Product
ScrumMasters in Large-Scale Scrum
Role of Managers
Adoption: From Smallish to Huge
Multisite
Definition of Done and its Impact on Structure
Product Owner and the Five Relationships
Product Backlog: Organizing and Prioritizing Bigger Backlogs
Product Backlog Refinement with Many Teams
Multisite
Sprint Planning with Many Teams
Coordination and Integration: From Communities to Architecture
Scaling the Sprint Review and Retrospective
Multisite
Although there are some constants in a LeSS adoption, there are many variations, due to myriad contexts. And there are many special-topic questions that participants have, usually variations of “When scaling Scrum, how do we…?” These questions range from “contracts to career path.” Therefore, a full half-day to day of this course is dedicated to a structured Q&A session that works through a group-prioritized list of burning issues and questions. Craig Larman, drawing on his many years of experience of actual LeSS adoptions, will dialog and explore solutions with the group.
For more information...
The website for LeSS, including case studies of various companies adopting LeSS (Ericsson, JP Morgan, and more) is http://less.works.
There are three books on LeSS:
Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
Bio of Craig Larman, co-creator of LeSS
Bio of Greg Hutchings, LeSS coach and expert
Greg Hutchings is the Founder and President of Amelior Services, a privately held French company. Amelior helps you and your organization to work better together in building compelling products and services that delight your customers and beat your competition. We lead change management programs that we co-design with you in your current context, and provide Innovation, Lean and Agile training and coaching services for executives, technology, marketing and HR teams.
We have found LeSS - the Large Scale Scrum approach written about and coached by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde - to be invaluable in working with organizations in the process of improving, typically as a part of a larger transformation initiative. We have deep experience with LeSS "in the trenches", which helps us to help you not only to get started with training, but to follow through with coaching until desired results are obtained. Our experience with LeSS is why we’ve chosen to partner with The LeSS Company BV. Find out how we can help.
Amelior Services http://www.ameliorservices.com
