Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices
9000 Gent
Gent
9000
Belgium
Description :
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
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 ScrumMaster or a Professional ScrumMaster course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Agenda :
In this 3-day highly-participative course, participants get a thorough introduction to LeSS. And people are introduced to — and practice — Systems Thinking with Causal Loop Modeling. There will also be an in-depth clinic with Jurgen De Smet, Certified LeSS trainer, Licensed Management 3.0 Trainer, Qualified Innovation Games Trainer, based on his long experience with Large-Scale Scrum adoptions.
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
Details :
Introduction
- Why LeSS?
- Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
- LeSS Organizational Design
- LeSS Principles
- LeSS Rules
- Two LeSS Frameworks
LeSS Structure
- Multiple Feature Teams on One Product
- ScrumMasters in Large-Scale Scrum
- Role of Managers
- Adoption: From Smallish to Huge
- Multisite
LeSS Product
- Definition of Done and its Impact on Structure
- Product Owner and the Five Relationships
- Product Backlog: Organizing and Prioritizing Bigger Backlogs
- Product Backlog Refinement with Many Teams
- Multisite
LeSS Sprint
- Sprint Planning with Many Teams
- Coordination and Integration: From Communities to Architecture
- Scaling the Sprint Review and Retrospective
- Multisite
In-Depth Special Topics: A Deep-Dive Q&A Clinic
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 significant period of time at the end of this course is dedicated to a structured Q&A session that works through a group-prioritized list of burning issues and questions. Jurgen De Smet, drawing on his many years of experience of actual LeSS adoptions, will dialog and explore solutions with the group.
After course completion...
All participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here they can find additional information about LeSS, share course information and stay in contact with the other course participants.
Price: 2,500 EUR
Early Bird Price: 1,895 EUR (End Date: 2015-11-08)
Additional Price Information: Group discounts are available, contact the organisers for more information.