Event 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.

The course runs from 9:00 until 18:00 on all 3 days, for certification, full attendance is 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

Location: Warsaw
Date: October 3-5th 2022 from 9:00 until 18:00 on all 3 days
Trainer: Craig Larman
Event Language Please, notice this event will be held in English. There won't be any translation into your native language.
Payment
Partial Payments may be received. You have the option of making multiple payments for Certified LeSS Practitioner training. This training must be paid in full prior to the start date of the training in order to participate.

Health and Safety Measures

• We ask that all participants use discretion in attending the event. If you are feeling ill or exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19, please exercise common sense and do not attend the training that day.

Trainer

Craig larman

The co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), Certified LeSS Trainer

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