Certified Less Practitioner (CLP^®)

This is a two day, highly participative course to explore a deep understanding of Large Scale Scrum for lean and agile development with many teams working on one product. Although there is no compulsory pre-reading for this course but I suggest to go through on LeSS website https://less.works/ and get familiar with LeSS principle and Framework

In this 2 days, 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.

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 modelling 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 our trainers emphasize this in the course learning experience.

AGENDA

LeSS Overview

• LeSS principles, frameworks, guides, experiments
• two LeSS frameworks: basic & LeSS Huge
• learning resources

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 process control
• why "More with LeSS"?
• systems optimization
• occupational psychology
• lean thinking & value-driven

LeSS Sprint

• preparation meetings before first Sprint
• Sprint Planning with many teams
• coordination & integration: from communities to architecture
• scaling Product Backlog Refinement
• scaling the Sprint Review & Retrospective
• multisite

LeSS Huge Framework

• Requirement Areas
• Area Product Owners
• role of Overall Product Owner
• Area Backlogs
• adoption

More on LeSS Roles

• Managers in a LeSS organisation
• Scrum Masters at scale
• Product Owner in LeSS

What You Will Receive:

After successful course completion, all participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here you can find:

1. (Free) Digital versions of the first, second, and third LeSS books
2. More LeSS learning (videos, etc)
3. The course handout PDF and photos of everything created within the course that was on the walls
4. Contacts of all course participants
5. A course certificate