Last week, I finished the first Certified LeSS Practitioner course in Helsinki, Finland. It went really well I think. A lot of my training material is in a new order than I’m used to so that caused me to be somewhat uncertain about timing and things like that. Also the participants were probably above average in LeSS knowledge as some of them I’ve been working with for years (whereas some were quite new).

The first day, we focused on the LeSS overview and the LeSS principles. We also did some causal loop diagramming. One team decided to use it to ‘proof’ that offshoring was a bad idea but the further they went the better it started to loop. It wasn’t what they were expecting making it quite amusing. We also looked at feature teams and component team structures.

Today, we’ve finally ‘released’ the site. Calling it released is a bit funny for us as we continuously deployed it, but we deleted the “under construction” sign :)

I’m typing this small post as I’m in the plane to Korea for a short training session. The last weeks have been amazingly busy yet exciting. The upcoming LeSS book is really shaping up well and this site also. It has been quite a struggle to get the design right and the content right. On the site, I don’t think we’re there yet, but at least it is good enough now and hopefully useful for people.