Certified LeSS Practitioner with Craig Larman
Organizational design of large-scale agile product organization with the co-author of the LeSS framework
May 13–15, 2024Mon–Wed
49 000 Kč / € 2.000(until Apr 13)54 000 Kč / € 2.200without VAT
Who should attend
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
What will you learn
Simplifying organizations using Systems Thinking
Collaboration of many teams in a Sprint
Role of management in LeSS
Own vs rent
Topics
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
Certified LeSS Practitioner
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
Customer reviews
This class is thought-provoking and makes you rethink everything you've learned so far.
– Paweł Kałkus, QAgile
Mind-blowing and very insightful! Great investment of your time if you want to get a more adaptable organization focusing on business value. And great food :)
– Barbara Richter, ŠKODA AUTO
Where & When
Hauch Gallery
Pobřežní 20a
186 00 Prague 8 – Karlín
When: 8:30–17:30 every day
For certification, full attendance required. Please arrange you travel accordingly.
Customer reviews
Eye-opening approach to solving issues organizations create for themselves by not thinking slow. Recommended for everyone who influences organizational design.
– Anna Malá, ABRA Software
Great speaker, sees things from a very different perspective from traditional "agile coaches". Must see for sr. managers and sceptics.
– Martin Kolombo, Bohemia Interactive Simulations
Systems Thinking, deconstructing "fast thinking" false concepts, practical tips on implementation.
– Daria Radoszewska, DHL IT Services
Your trainer Craig Larman
Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), with his friend and colleague Bas Vodde.
He works as an organizational design consultant, introducing LeSS with executive teams for very large and multisite product development (often, HW-SW systems).
He also works with product management for highly complex product definitions, and hands-on as an embedded-systems legacy-code C and C++ TDD coach, to keep in touch with the real work and workers.
Craig will give a talk to ScrumDojo Beer community, when he will be in Prague in May.
