Course description
We bring you this course in collaboration with ScrumDōjō.
Target audience
This class is not about a "scaling framework". It is primarily focused on
first principles of designing and
simplifying large-scale agile organizations. Must-attend for:
- Senior managers and executives
- Engineering managers and directors, CTOs
- Product managers, Product Owners, CPOs
- Scrum Masters, agile coaches and agile transformation consultants
- Anyone who wants to understand why product development on large-scale is such a pain
Course content
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 Product Owner
- Area Backlogs
- adoption
LeSS Sprint
- preparation before first Sprint
- scaling Sprint Planning to PBR to Retrospectives with many teams
- coordination & integration: from communities to architecture
- multi-site development
Adoption
- pre-adoption: building interest
- owning vs renting change ideas
- the adoption guides
- 3 principles
- getting started
- Parallel Organization
Why LeSS?
- simplicity
- systems optimization
- adapting to learn
Certification
After successful course completion, you will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and get an account on less.works. Here you can find:
- digital versions of the three LeSS books (see below)
- more LeSS learning resources (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
Materials
Materials are in electronic form.
