Craig Larman – 11th – 13th February – 3 day course – LeSS for Practitioners
Details
Adventures with Enterprise Agile is very fortunate and proud to host a 3 day highly-participative course given by Craig Larman in Central London which will result in attendees becoming Certified LeSS Practitioners. Every attendee will also receive all 3 of Craig’s books on LeSS.
The course will be based in the coolest meeting room venue in London. You can check it out and review details at the bottom of this page.
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Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) gives us the ability to scale Scrum, the most popular Agile framework, remove organisational impediments and provide solutions and options that are not found elsewhere to common and not-so-common problems.
More information on LeSS can be found at http://less.works .
In this course, you will not only learn LeSS from its co-creator but also have access to his huge knowledge and experience in making Agile work in large multi-site organisations and be able to join in on discussions and Q & A, and network with other very experienced Agile attendees. If you have mastered Scrum and want to grow Agile beyond the team, LeSS and this course are the next step.
Places are limited to 30 and we expect them to go quickly, so please book now to avoid disappointment.
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Booking
The course is £2k + VAT and covers books, certification, all training, breakfast, lunches, unlimited snacks, teas, coffees, juices, soft drinks, biscuits and sweets..
Discounts are offered for group booking. Please email (simon@adventureswithagile.com) or call ((44)(0) 78 541 541 41) for details.
RSVP to book a place on the course, please RSVP to this event and I will send you an invoice.
Please note that places are limited to 30 and due to Craig’s popularity will likely go very quickly.
You can also email me at simon@adventureswithagile.com , please include the number of tickets, your full name, the company name and address for the invoice.
Alternatively you can call me on (44)(0) 78 541 541 41.
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This event will earn 24 Scrum Alliance SEUs. (3 x 8 hours).
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Craig Larman
Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and since 2005 has worked with clients to apply the LeSS framework for scaling Scrum, lean thinking, and agile development to big product groups. Much of his work is organizational-design consulting with senior-management teams of product groups adopting LeSS.
Craig has served as the lead coach of large-scale lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS at Ericsson, JP Morgan, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alcatel-Lucent, UBS, bwin.party, Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, and Ion Trading, among many other clients. Craig has also served as chief scientist at Valtech and while living in Bengaluru India, at Valtech’s development centre helped to create agile offshore development with LeSS.
In addition to his focus on hands-on LeSS consulting and product work, he occasionally speaks in public, such as keynoting on LeSS at the 2014 Software Executive Summit, the 2013 Agile India conference, and the 2011 QCon conference.
Craig has been named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time (see
https://www.valueflowquality.com/the-top-20-most-influential-agile-people) and is the author of several books on scaling lean & agile development with LeSS, including:
• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
• Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking & Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
• Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
• Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide
Don’t rush out and buy all these books! You will get copies when you attend the course!
(See below for details)
Craig was one of the first Certified Scrum Trainers, and helped kick off the Agile movement,
especially with his 2003 book “Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide”.
LeSS – Large-Scale Scrum
What is the strength of Scrum? That’s not an easy question to answer. Of course, the principles behind Scrum, such as transparency, empirical process control, iterative development, and self-managing cross-functional teams of multi-skilled workers are critical. But there’s something else, subtle but important: Scrum hits the sweet spot between abstract principles and concrete practices.
Thus, in order to keep Large-Scale Scrum as Scrum, we’ll need to find a similar balance, so that we will be able to say: For large groups, LeSS hits the sweet spot between defined concrete elements and empirical process control.
This leads to some decisions in the creation of LeSS:
• LeSS needs to be simple
When scaling, there is a tendency to add roles, artefacts, processes, etc. This should be avoided so that a process can empirically be created by the product group. Most other scaling frameworks fall into the trap of providing a detailed defined process with many prescribed methods. In LeSS we want to avoid that trap and keep LeSS minimal and simple.
• Large-Scale Scrum is truly Scrum scaled
Rather than having Scrum simply as a lower-level building block for a different scaled framework that is inconsistent with Scrum at higher levels, we need to look at Scrum and for each element ask “Why is it there?” followed by “If we have more than one team, how can we achieve the same purpose on a larger scale, and remain consistent with Scrum principles all the way up?”
For more information…
The website for LeSS, including case studies of various companies adopting LeSS (Ericsson, JP Morgan, and more) is http://less.works.
The course
In this 3-day highly-participative course, participants get a thorough introduction to LeSS.
Attendees are introduced to — and practice — Systems Thinking with Causal Loop Modeling. There will also be an in-depth clinic with Craig Larman, the co-creator of LeSS, based on his long experience with Large-Scale Scrum adoptions.
In addition to course material, each participant will also receive 3 books on LeSS:
• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
• Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
• Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum
The course outline:
Introduction
Why LeSS?
Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
LeSS Organizational Design
LeSS Principles
LeSS Rules
Two LeSS Frameworks
LeSS Structure
Multiple Feature Teams on One Product
ScrumMasters in Large-Scale Scrum
Role of Managers
Adoption: From Smallish to Huge
Multisite
LeSS Product
Definition of Done and its Impact on Structure
Product Owner and the Five Relationships
Product Backlog: Organizing and Prioritizing Bigger Backlogs
Product Backlog Refinement with Many Teams
Multisite
LeSS Sprint
Sprint Planning with Many Teams
Coordination and Integration: From Communities to Architecture
Scaling the Sprint Review and Retrospective
Multisite
In-Depth Special Topics: A Deep-Dive Q&A Clinic
Although there are some constants in a LeSS adoption, there are many variations, due to myriad contexts. And there are many special-topic questions that participants have, usually variations of “When scaling Scrum, how do we…?” These questions range from “contracts to career path.” Therefore, a full half-day to day of this course is dedicated to a structured Q&A session that works through a group-prioritized list of burning issues and questions.
Craig Larman, drawing on his many years of experience of actual LeSS adoptions, will dialogue and explore solutions with the group.
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Booking
The course is £2k + VAT and covers books, certification, all training, lunches, refreshments, etc. Discounts are offered for group booking. Please email (simon@adventureswithagile.com)for details.
RSVP to book a place on the course, please RSVP to this event and I will send you an invoice.
Please note that places are limited to 30 and due to Craig’s popularity will likely go very quickly.
You can also email me at simon@adventureswithagile.com , please include the number of tickets, your full name, the company name and address for the invoice.
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This event will earn 24 Scrum Alliance SEUs. (3 x 8 hours).
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Refund and Cancellation Policy
We are unable to offer refunds at this point as we are so near to the course date. Please only book if you are sure you will attend.
If however, someone takes your place then we would offer a refund minus any costs incurred with the transaction.
If for some reason, we have to cancel the course, you will of course get a full refund. We need a minimum amount of people to make it feasible.
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The venue
The venue is one of, if not the coolest place to have training in London. We have laid on breakfast as well as a 2 course lunch in Wallacespace's very trendy restaurant. We also have unlimited snacks, teas, coffees, juices, soft drinks, biscuits and sweets.
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You can find the location on Google maps (http://tinyurl.com/pzfygwr) and by their website (http://www.wallacespace.com/clerkenwellgreen/).
The address is:
18 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0D