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.
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 :)
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.
Great speaker, sees things from a very different perspective from traditional "agile coaches". Must see for sr. managers and sceptics.
Systems Thinking, deconstructing "fast thinking" false concepts, practical tips on implementation.
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.
