Certified LeSS Practitioner
Introduction
Are you currently working on a product that is developed by multiple teams? Are you struggling with the specific challenges and inefficiencies that multi-team development inevitably brings? Would you like to gain clarity on why these issues persist and receive practical guidance on how to enact real change?
You’ve come to the right place! LeSS is a proven organizational design system for scaling agile development across many teams without sacrificing the flexibility and speed typical of small companies and startups.
Our trainers:
- have successfully applied LeSS and its principles in multiple enterprises and have managed the long-term consequences of those organizational decisions, often for several years.
- possess 20 years of combined industry experience across various senior roles.
- are certified directly by the creators of LeSS and maintain direct, continuous contact with them.
What problems will this course help you solve?
You will gain a deep understanding of how multi-team (software) product development truly operates and learn how to implement lasting organizational changes. These changes are designed to ensure all teams cooperate smoothly and seamlessly on the development of a single, shared product.
For Scrum Masters / Agile Coaches
Do the changes you implement tend to revert to the old ways after a while? The culprit is your organizational design. We will define what organizational design is and identify the specific elements you must monitor to achieve deep and lasting change within the company.
Could your company be described by the phrase: “Everyone is working hard, but almost nothing is being delivered”? You will learn the crucial difference between a Component Team and a Feature Team and why Component Teams are an inherent source of delay and inefficiency.
Are you effective with one team but hitting a wall when scaling to multiple teams? You will discover the refined roles of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Manager in a multi-team environment, and learn how to structure and nurture teams to achieve the highest possible degree of autonomy and self-management.
For Product Owners / Product Managers
Do you feel overloaded? Does everyone constantly demand your time and input? You will learn that a significant part of the Product Owner’s work can be delegated to the development teams, and why this delegation is beneficial for both the company and the product.
Would you like the development of your product to be driven by business priorities, rather than technical constraints? You will discover that the way you define your product fundamentally affects how the development team is able to respond to new business opportunities.
Do you feel like the delivery of every new feature is painfully slow? Using the principles of Lean Thinking, we will explain the root cause of the slowdown and show you how to deliver key features much sooner.
For Managers
Is planning development within your company complicated to the point of absurdity? You will learn the primary factors that cause this complexity and how to radically simplify the planning process.
Is technical debt gradually increasing, leaving your team with no time for new development due to errors and maintenance? You will learn about “The Contract Game” and its significant impact on the accumulation of technical debt within an organization.
Would you like to increase satisfaction among your employees? You will discover how to compose teams in a way that aligns them with the end customer, which will increase satisfaction for both your customers and your employees.
Topics
This training has been designed for employees and managers of companies that require multiple (potentially many) teams to collaborate on the development of a single, shared product. The training will help you understand why your company operates the way it does now and provide you with concrete guidance on how to initiate change, as well as mental models suitable for assessing future organizational challenges.
Agenda
- What is LeSS and its Principles
- Local Optimization
- System Modeling
- Lean Thinking
- Lean Wastes
- False Dichotomies and how to avoid them
- Feature Teams - what they are and how to form them
- LeSS Adoption - two approaches
- Product and its definition
- LeSS Huge, Requirement Areas
- Taylorism, Theory X and Y
- Organizational Design
- Collective Ownership of Shared Resources
- Vision of Perfection
- Coordination of Multiple Teams
- Multi-Team Events - Planning, Review, Retrospective
- Product Backlog Refinement
Certification
Every participant in the Certified LeSS Practitioner course receives an official certificate from The LeSS Company, along with access to training materials and books via the less.works portal.
The LeSS Company is renowned for its stringent standards in selecting and authorizing trainers for certification. To date, only 30 people globally have successfully met and surpassed this high bar.
About The LeSS Company
The LeSS Company was founded in 2014 by the creators of LeSS, Bas Vodde and Craig Larman, who are recognized experts in multi-team product development.
Bas and Craig have been practicing agile development with multiple (and sometimes many) teams for several decades across various companies and industries. They documented their practical insights in three books that summarize their extensive experience.
The goal of The LeSS Company is to promote LeSS, provide certified training, and supply qualified coaches who are capable of assisting mid-size companies and large enterprises with necessary organizational changes.
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