Includes Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices Course

What will you receive:

• Attendee workbook

• All participants get access to the draft of the new upcoming book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

• Access to exclusive Agile Thinkers Academy Digital library

• Agile Thinkers Academy Slack community

• Agile Thinkers Academy Certificate of Attendance

Attendees will receive the Certification Credential:

• 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, 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

The LeSS Practitioner Certification will expire after 2 years and will require a renewal fee.

PMI Professional Development Units (PDU)

Attendees may be eligible to apply for PDU towards their continuing education requirements with PMI

Description

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. 

(Aside, but noteworthy: Course runs until 17:30 on all 3 days, including 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.

Agenda:

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 in analysis & design
• local optimization in programming

Product Definition 

• redefining the scope of 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 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 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

Course Audience and Pre-Requisites

The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Certified Scrum Master or a Professional Scrum Master course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.

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

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