LeSS of a Story: An Introduction to Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Details
Note:
We are starting one hour later to accommodate Bas Vodde coming from Reston on his last day teaching the LeSS Practitioner Course. Also RSVP will be available 12 days before the event date.
Abstract:
This talk is based on story-telling, where Bas will share the creation of LeSS and within that side-track on explaining better how LeSS works.
LeSS (http://less.works/) is a lightweight (agile) framework for scaling Scrum to more than one team. It was extracted out of the experiences of Bas Vodde and Craig Larman while Scaling Agile development in many different types of companies, products and industries over the last ten years. There are several case studies (https://less.works/case-studies/index.html) available and an upcoming book describing LeSS in detail (http://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Scrum-More-Craig-Larman/dp/0321985710).
LeSS consists of the LeSS Principles, the Framework, the Guides and a set of experiments. The LeSS framework is divided into two frameworks: basic LeSS for 2-8 teams and LeSS Huge for 8+ teams. All of these are also available on the less.works website (http://less.works/).
LeSS is different with other scaling frameworks in the sense that it provides a very minimalistic framework that enables empiricism on a large-scale which enables the teams and organization to inspect-adapt their implementation based on their experiences and context. LeSS is based on the idea that providing too much rules, roles, artifacts and asking the organization to tailor it down is a fundamentally flawed approach and instead scaling frameworks should be minimalistic and allowing organizations to fill them in.
Bio:
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Bas Vodde (https://sg.linkedin.com/in/basvodde) is an experienced coach in agile and lean development (with a focus on Scrum and LeSS). He enjoys debugging organizations and has served on the leadership team of a large telecom product. He has worked for years on the largest LeSS Huge adoption he is aware of – large groups require patience. He also enjoys the actual software development and is an active contributor to Open Source (mostly in C++ and Ruby)
Bas has lived in Holland, China, Finland and Singapore and has a lot of experience in diverse working environment and seen how a lot of multi-national organizations work (or don’t work…). He loves reading books and writing software and keeps on learning from his two sons.
Bas is the author of Scaling Agile & Lean Development (http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Lean-Agile-Development-Organizational/dp/0321480961), Practices for Scaling Lean and Agile Development (http://www.amazon.com/Practices-Scaling-Lean-Agile-Development-ebook/dp/B0046EDOYU) and Large-Scale Scrum (http://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Scrum-More-Craig-Larman/dp/0321985710). He is maintainer of the CppUTest C++ unit test framework (https://github.com/cpputest/) and the Osaka Mac GUI automation library (https://github.com/basvodde/osaka)
Book Giveaway: 1 agile-related book
When: August 12th, 2015 at 7:00 pm (See Agenda Below)
Where: Excella Consulting, 6th Floor Arlington Tech Exchange, 2300 Wilson Blvd., Arlington VA 22201
Cost: Free thanks to our sponsors
Sponsors:
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Thank you to our main sponsor Excella Consulting for hosting our meetings and providing pizza and refreshments.
Excella is hiring! Check out the open job opportunities (https://www.meetup.com/DC-Scrum-User-Group/pages/Open_Job_Opportunity/) page. Excella is offering DCSUG members a discount for upcoming Agile training classes (http://excella.eventbrite.com/).
Agenda:
7:00 – 7:30 Arrive, mingle, pizza, network
7:30 – 8:45 Presentation/Discussion/Game/Workshop
8:45 – 9:00 Q&A and more networking
Can't make it this month?
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