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