Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices
With LeSS co-creator Craig Larman
Certified LeSS Practitioner: Principles to Practices Course with Craig Larman
What will you receive:
- (Free) digital versions of the first, second, and third LeSS books
- More LeSS learning (videos, etc) & Access to exclusive Agile Thinkers Academy Digital library
- 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 & Agile Thinkers Academy Certificate of Attendance
Agile Thinkers Academy Slack community
The LeSS Practitioner Certification will expire after 2 years and will require a renewal fee.
PMI Professional Development Units (PDU)
Attendees may be eligible to apply for PDU towards their continuing education requirements with PMI
Description
Learn with Craig Larman—the co-creator of LeSS—in this 3-day highly-participative course. Participants (senior managers, product developers, ...) explore a deep understanding of LeSS, Large-Scale Scrum, for lean & agile development with many teams working together on one product. We explore adoption, new organizational design, systems thinking & optimization, the role of management, and concretely how to work together in a Sprint at scale in terms of coordination, architecture, planning, and more.
(Aside, but noteworthy: Course runs until 17:30 on all 3 days, including day 3; for certification, full attendance required)
Critically, we explore the Big Idea of more with LeSS: simplifying & descaling over "scaling", or... scaling product development by descaling the organization.
Perhaps most importantly and interestingly, this course runs mostly as a series of "at giant whiteboards" deep-thinking exercises involving systems modeling in small teams to explore why, so that people can own the ideas by discovering them for themselves, rather than "renting" the ideas. A focus on why and owning not renting are important elements of LeSS and how it's learned, and Craig emphasizes this in the course learning experience.
Join Larman for a deep dive into more with LeSS, based on his long experience with LeSS adoptions.
Agenda:
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 Product Owner
- Area Backlogs
- adoption
LeSS Sprint
- preparation before first Sprint
- Sprint Planning with many teams
- coordination & integration: from communities to architecture
- scaling Product Backlog Refinement
- scaling the Sprint Review & Retrospective
- multi-site development
Adoption
- pre-adoption: building interest
- the adoption guides
- 3 principles
- getting started
- scope of first adoption
- stories of LeSS adoptions
More on LeSS Roles
- Managers
- Scrum Masters
- Product Owner
Why LeSS?
- simplicity
- systems optimization
- adapting to learn
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