Date: Mar 27-29, 2023
Time: 8:30AM - 5:30PM Central
Venue: West End Conference Center
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Instructor: Craig Larman
Phone: 612-791-1388

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This course will be held in person.

For a video highlighting our COVID-19 safety procedures- click here.

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 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 canown 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.

Feedback from previous courses

“It was inspiring to discuss Large-Scale Scrum with Craig Larman. The content of the course was top-notch.” – Steve Alexander

“The delivery was outstanding and the supporting material vast and detailed.” – Simone Zecchi

“The best course I have ever been on. Totally blown away.” – Simon Powers

In addition to course material, each participant will also receive 2 books on LeSS:

• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

• Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

Agenda :

LeSS Overview

• descaling and simplifying over scaling: more with LeSS

• LeSS principles, frameworks, guides, experiments

• two LeSS frameworks: basic & LeSS Huge

Adoption

• pre-adoption: building interest

• the adoption guides

• 3 principles

• getting started

• scope of first adoption

• stories of LeSS adoptions 

Local Optimization & System Optimization 

• 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

Why LeSS?

• shu-ha-ri and frameworks

• empirical control

• why "More with LeSS"?

• systems optimization

• occupational psychology

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

LeSS Huge Framework

• Requirement Areas

• Area Product Owners

• role of Overall Product Owner

• Area Backlogs

• adoption

More on LeSS Roles

• Managers in a LeSS organization

• Scrum Masters at scale

• Product Owner in LeSS

Details :

After successful course completion (attending full-time, etc)...

All participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here you can find:

• (free) digital versions of the first and third LeSS books

• more LeSS learning (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