Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices
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Braunschweig
38118
Germany
Description :
Course Highlights
- Understand why agility at the team level is not enough to build an agile organization that is adaptable and delivers customer value quickly
- Learn the principles that lead to building an agile organization
- Master rules, guidelines, and experiments that drive agility, and apply new ways of thinking
- Gain from real world experience at BMW Group’s (Autonomous driving division) 100+ team LeSS adoption
- Enjoy decades of agility expertise in complex hardware design and embedded software projects
- + How to start a change in your work environment with clear guidance and tools
Additional Advantages
- A flexible refund policy up to 7 days before the class & 100% money-back-guarantee after the course if you’re not completely happy with the experience provided
- Lifetime Post-class support for all participants via a dedicated Slack group
- Download all 3 LeSS books for free as PDF
- Access to all course materials used via your own less.works account
- Receive your Certified LeSS Practitioner certification
- + One free post-course mentoring session
Course Summary
Quickly delivering value and innovating in ever-faster cycle times has become a key differentiator between good and great enterprises. Large product-development organizations are turning to agile principles and large-scale Scrum to sustainably deliver that innovation at a fast pace.
The key questions many large product development organizations face are:
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How to apply what works well on a small scale to large-scale developments?
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What’s the design of an organization that optimizes for learning, agility, and customer value?
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Can I redesign my organization to create an environment to succeed in the long run?
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is to organizations what Scrum is to teams: a simple, powerful, large-scale product development framework designed to evolve into something that fits perfectly within any unique context. LeSS builds on top of Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional, self-managing teams, and provides a framework to apply them at scale. It presents simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
In this 3-day certified LeSS-training, you will learn the LeSS rules, principles, guides, and experiments. Key learnings of this course are:
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Explain what LeSS is and what LeSS is not
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Explain the LeSS roles and their purpose
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Explain how LeSS is a Scrum-based approach to scaling
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Explain the dynamics of component teams vs. feature teams
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Summarize the impact of LeSS on organizational design (structures, policies, etc.)
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Understand how your current organizational design influences the agility of your organization
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Understand whether and how your organization can benefit from implementing LeSS
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Explain how LeSS scales over approx. 8 teams
What is special about this course?
This course will allow you to take in information in a multisensory way (hearing, seeing, discussing, writing, reflecting, and teaching it to others) and engage in an active review of your knowledge. At the end of the course, you will know how to use your new skills in your organization.
In this “Certified LeSS Practitioner” course, participants work in small groups on how to identify and avoid local optimization in a wide variety of areas and instead optimize the overall system. A good organizational design that supports the company's goals is the most important key to success in major product developments. In many practical "systems modeling" sessions, the participants get the answer to the question: Why? By that, they develop a deep understanding of a successful organizational design with large-scale Scrum.
The course includes experience reports from some LeSS adoptions, many exercises on specific questions of the participants, and detailed Q&A sessions to ensure that the interests of the participants are fully taken into account. Konstantin will also share his many years of experience from challenging development projects at BMW, thus illustrating the theory with practical examples.
What do participants say about this course?
"The LeSS Training was excellent and I hope to have the chance joining Konstantin for another training." - Eva Schmid, Corporate Audit IT BMW Group
"I have been working together with Konstantin many times over a longer period of time.
Konstantin is a calm, energetic and extremely knowledgeable person who can always provide
valuable feedback with different approaches on how to approach the situation.
It is fun to work with him and you will learn a lot without even noticing. I can highly
recommend him. You will get new perspectives combined with a lot of background
knowledge and also identify new solutions." - Anonym, Proven Expert
"Mr. Ribel introduced our department to agile ways of working and the LeSS framework in a very successful workshop. Highly recommended." - Anonym, Proven Expert
See all reviews of Konstantin Ribel on ProvenExpert.com
Certification
At the end of the course, you will receive the CLP certification and an account on less.works. You will also receive digital copies of all LeSS books.
In addition, after attending the course, you will be able to claim up to 24 SEUs (Scrum Education Units) under Category C, towards Scrum Alliance CSP (Certified Scrum Professional) credential.
Agenda :
Foundational Knowledge
After the course completion you will be able to:
- Articulate why LeSS
- Explain how LeSS is a Scrum-based approach on scaling
- Summarise what impact this has on the organisational design (structures, policies, etc.)
- Explain the dynamics of component teams vs. feature teams
- Explain all LeSS roles and their purposes
- Explain why there is one and only real PO and not so-called team POs
- Explain the LeSS Complete diagram, organising LeSS information in terms of the principles, rules, guides, and experiments
- Explain how LeSS scales over ~8 teams
- Know the existence of and location of major learning resources at less.works
Application Goals
After the class you will have skills to:
- Analyse your current organisations’ state
- Evaluate the applicability of LeSS in your current work environment
Integration Goals
After the class you will be able to make the following connections:
- LeSS is Scrum
- What organizational impacts LeSS adoption may cause
- What impact would LeSS adoption make to your work life
- LeSS is building on top of modern management thinking. Eg. Peter Senge, John Seddon, W. Edwards Deming, Taiichi Ohno, Richard Hackman, Robert Sutton and Jeffrey Pfeffer. The authors and practitioners of LeSS advocate understanding leading management thinkers and prevailing evidence in terms of management thinking, and you are encouraged to continue learning post training
Details :
Target Audience
We welcome all Scrum Masters and Agile practitioners, team and organizational coaches, organizational leaders and senior managers, product owners and stakeholders, software engineers, hands-on technologists, and others.
This course is of particular interest to those involved in product development; pure software or hardware and embedded software products.
Prerequisites
The only prerequisite to the course is basic Scrum knowledge. That can be picked up 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.
About the Trainer
Konstantin Ribel is a Scrum Master – the first fomenter, or the lone nut, of the LeSS Huge adoption at BMW Group’s Autonomous Driving division.
Konstantin worked in various engineering fields such as complex hardware design, embedded SW development and project management in United Kingdom and Germany.
He is convinced that today’s organizations need a radical structural change to shift mindsets, and unleash collective intelligence. His vision is to foster organizations where human intelligence and efforts are highly respected.
Strong desire to learn and question the status quo helped him in bringing LeSS Huge to BMW Group’s Autonomous Driving division.
You can connect with Konstantin here.
Price: 2,490 EUR
Early Bird Price: 1,990 EUR (End Date: 2022-02-14)
Additional Price Information: Group bookings of 3 people or more receive a 650 euro discount per participant on the normal price. || Private courses on request