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Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices with Craig Larman

Learn with Craig Larman—the co-creator of LeSS—in this 3-day highly-participative course. Participants (senior managers, product developers, ...) explore a deep understanding of LeSS, Large-Scale Scrum, for lean & agile development with many teams working together on one product.

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Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices with Craig Larman
Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices with Craig Larman

Time & Location

20. Sept. 2023, 09:00 – 22. Sept. 2023, 18:00

Berlin, "SANA Berlin Hotel", Nürnberger Str. 33/34, 10777 Berlin, Germany

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About the event

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Learn with Craig Larman—the co-creator of LeSS—in this 3-day highly-participative course. Participants (senior managers, product developers, ...) explore a deep understanding of LeSS, Large-Scale Scrum, for lean & agile development with many teams working together on one product. We explore adoption, new organizational design, systems thinking & optimization, the role of management, and concretely how to work together in a Sprint at scale in terms of coordination, architecture, planning, and more.

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.

AGENDA

Course runs until 17:30 on all 3 days, including day 3; for certification, full attendance is required.

LeSS Overview 

  • descaling and simplifying over scaling: more with LeSS
  • LeSS principles, frameworks, guides, experiments
  • two LeSS frameworks: basic & LeSS Huge

 Systems Thinking & Organizational Design 

  • local versus global systems optimization
  • local optimization in backlogs
  • local optimization in product definition
  • local optimization in planning
  • local optimization in analysis & design
  • local optimization in programming

 Product Definition 

  • redefining the scope of the product, and the impact on global optimization
  • portfolio management

 LeSS Huge Framework 

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

 LeSS Sprint 

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

 Adoption 

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

 More on LeSS Roles 

  • Managers in a LeSS organization
  • Scrum Masters in LeSS
  • Product Owner in LeSS

 Why LeSS? 

  • shu-ha-ri and frameworks
  • empirical control
  • why "More with LeSS"?
  • systems optimization
  • occupational psychology

PARTICIPATION, CERTIFICATION AND MATERIALS

After successful course completion (attending full-time, etc) all participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works

They will get access to:

  • (free) digital versions of the first, second, 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

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