From Principles to Practices

Together with Kurt Nielsen from ScrumMaster.dk in Denmark and 舎AgileLeanHouse A/S, we are proud to arrange a three-day certification course in LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum).

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 concretely how to work together in a Sprint at scale in terms of coordination, architecture, planning, and much more.

Bonus:
Each day includes an in-depth Q&A clinic with Craig Larman, based on his long experience with LeSS adoptions.

What participants say

“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

LeSS builds on top of the original Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that throughout the organization. LeSS provides easy-to-follow structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development. Less is in our opinion the most effective and coherent set of principles and practices today for applying Scrum in large settings.

The Training Course explores adoption, new organizational design, systems thinking & optimization, the role of management, and very concretely how to work together in a Sprint at scale in terms of coordination, architecture, planning, and much more. As a special treat, each day there is an in-depth Q&A session with Craig Larman, based on his long experience with LeSS adoptions.

Participants should have a good understanding of Scrum such as ScrumMaster or Product Owner education.

Agenda

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

Deep-Dive Q&A Sessions

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.

Practical information

The LeSS course is a three day event on the 3.-5. October 2016 (9:00-18:00) at Nordea, Strandgade 3, 1401 København K. After the course you will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and have two years membership of less.works.

Registration at https://goo.gl/JZERlz or by sending email to info@agileleanleadership.com. An invoice will then be issued. We send out invoices 30 days before the event for those who have registered as early birds. Terms of payment is 10 days net.

The list-price for the course is DKK 17.500 + VAT. Until 3. September an early bird price of DKK 16.000 + VAT applies. Course material, refreshment, lunch and certification is included. 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

Conditions

Upon registration we issue a confirmation of participation. Cancellation of participation can be done in writing until 1 month before the event without cost. Later than that the whole fee is payable, however another person can take over the seat at the course. Payment has to be received before the start of the course.

In the unfortunate event that we have to cancel the training course, then the whole amount paid will be returned without delay to the participant. We do not have any further responsiblites for re-compensation in the event of cancellation.

Download a PDF invitation here…

Certified LeSS Practitioner