Formation interactive de 3 jours, dans un magnificent chateau, sur l’innovation à (tres) grande échelle.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. Early bird discount expires April 15, 2021!
Detailed information is available on the registration page:
Formation different et encore plus valable qu’un typique “Certified Product Owner” cours, grace à l’experience appliqué et profonde du formateur. Apres plus que 10 ans d’experience en leadership produit à Silicon Valley, Greg a coaché les product managers et product owners en plusieurs domaines en Europe: FinTech, e-Learning, Voiture Autonome, Grande distribution, Luxe et Jeux en ligne.
Dessiné pour une experience engagent et interactive, participation sera limité à 15 participants.
Apprenez le framework LeSS pour vous inspirer de votre capacité de controller et guider votre propre transformation d’être plus lean et agile à grande échelle. Cinq demi-journées de formation. Chaque jour démarre a 8h30 et sera terminé par 13h30 CET, avec pauses fréquentes.
L’enregistrement est disponible en ligne. Financement par l’Etat est disponible en cas de besoin.
The online LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. Early bird discount expires March 12 2021!
Small groups of up to 12 people, highly interactive content and frequent short pauses keep the energy high and the learning effective.
Detailed information is available on the registration page:
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. Early bird discount expires January 22 2021!
Come join me for 3 days to learn in-depth about Lean, Agile and Large Scale Scrum!
This session is one of the rare public courses that I am giving this year, as I am very deeply involved in LeSS adoptions at current clients.
In addition to learning about LeSS from the first certified LeSS trainer (me!), we will explore how to adopt and adapt LeSS in the context of your or your client's companies.
Registration and hosting is being handled by my partner, Xebia, who will be glad to help you with logistics. For questions concerning the course content, please don't hesitate to contact me directly!
- Greg
Come join me for 3 days to learn in-depth about Lean, Agile and Large Scale Scrum!
This session is one of the rare public courses that I am giving this year, as I am very deeply involved in LeSS adoptions at current clients.
In addition to learning about LeSS from the first certified LeSS trainer (me!), we will explore how to adopt and adapt LeSS in the context of your or your client's companies.
Registration and hosting is being handled by my partner, Xebia, who will be glad to help you with logistics. For questions concerning the course content, please don't hesitate to contact me directly!
- Greg
This will be the 2nd course this year that I am co-training with Tomek in Warsaw - hope that you can make it!
To learn more and to sign up, please visit the LeSS.works website
After a very successful first LeSS training in Warsaw in Spring 2017, please come to this second session in partnership with Pro Cognita - it will be excellent! I am really pleased to be coming back to Warsaw and the growing Large Scale Scrum community.
To register: Procognita site
http://training.xebia.fr/formation/certification-less-practitioner/
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS.works gives an overview. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
This interactive course weaves the use of Innovation Games(tm) into the practices of LeSS to improve customer collaboration, multi-stakeholder alignment, better team collaboration, large scale retrospectives and a compelling way to facilitate product roadmap co-creation.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Certified ScrumMaster or a Professional ScrumMaster course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
The course is taught by Greg Hutchings, founder of Amelior Services. Greg is an expert in scaling Lean and Agile using LeSS; he is the first certified trainer after the creators of LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. He is also a certified collaboration instructor for Conteneo and an expert in Innovation Games(tm), and a CSM, CSPO and CSP with the Scrum Alliance. Greg has 12 years of experience teaching and coaching large scale agile at many innovative products and services companies around the world.
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS.works gives an overview. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
This interactive course weaves the use of Innovation Games(tm) into the practices of LeSS to improve customer collaboration, multi-stakeholder alignment, better team collaboration, large scale retrospectives and a compelling way to facilitate product roadmap co-creation.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Certified ScrumMaster or a Professional ScrumMaster course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
The course is taught by Greg Hutchings, founder of Amelior Services. Greg is an expert in scaling Lean and Agile using LeSS; he is the first certified trainer after the creators of LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. He is also a certified collaboration instructor for Conteneo and an expert in Innovation Games(tm), and a CSM, CSPO and CSP with the Scrum Alliance. Greg has 12 years of experience teaching and coaching large scale agile at many innovative products and services companies around the world.
Language: English
Description :
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS.works gives an overview. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
This in-depth, interactive course is taught by Greg Hutchings, founder of Amelior Services. Greg is an expert in scaling Lean and Agile using LeSS and Innovation Games(tm), who has 10 years of experience teaching and coaching large scale agile at many innovative products and services companies. He shares this experience and centers the course on the context and questions of the students who participate actively.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Certified ScrumMaster or a Professional ScrumMaster course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Want to learn more about how companies have implemented LeSS? Please visit the LeSS Case Studies page.
Agenda :
The following topics will be covered in the Certified LeSS Practitioner course:
Organizing around Customer Value and Feature Teams
Organizational impacts and typical LeSS organizational structure
Details :
TRAINERS
This in-depth, interactive course weaves the use of Innovation Games™ into the practices of LeSS to improve customer collaboration, multi-stakeholder alignment, better team collaboration, large scale retrospectives and a compelling way to facilitate product roadmap co-creation.
Greg Hutchings, Certified LeSS Trainer
The course is taught by a Certified LeSS Trainer - Greg Hutchings, founder of Amelior Services. Greg is an expert in scaling Lean and Agile using LeSS; he is the first certified trainer after the creators of LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. He is also a certified collaboration instructor for Conteneo and an expert in Innovation Games™, and a CSM, CSPO and CSP with the Scrum Alliance. Greg has 12 years of experience teaching and coaching large scale agile at many innovative products and services companies around the world.
Greg began the teaching and coaching phase of his career after many years of leading the development of successful software products in Northern California in small and large teams, having adopted early agile and innovative product management methods since the early 90's.
In his training, he shares this experience and centers the course on the context and questions of the students who participate actively. You can read more about Greg at LeSS trainer's profile, his company website, and on LinkedIn.
Additionally all participants will be able to receive Innovation Games Certification credits and access to its online platform.
All participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here they can find additional information about LeSS, share course information and stay in contact with the other course participants.
Alexey Krivitsky, Certified Scrum Trainer
Additionally to Greg - the main trainer, Alexey Krivitsky - an organizer of this class and an agile activist - will be co-training during these wonderful three days.
Alexey is a big proponent of system thinking and organizational descaling achieved with LeSS.
Alexey's frequent blog posts on Agile at Scale.
Alexey's profile.
Additional Price Information: See registration link for additional possible price discounts!
Ce cours certifiant intensif de 3 jours permettra aux participants de maîtriser les principes sous-jacents, les règles et les guides de Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Come to my first training in Warsaw - in partnership with Procognita. To register and for more information: Procognita site
This will be my first training in Mumbai, after years of teaching Bangalore and Hyderabad. Looking forward to it! To register and find out more, visit the Eventbrite site.
Hosted at Conteneo, to enroll, please visit: Eventbrite
Hosted at Xebia, to enroll visit: http://training.xebia.fr/formation/certification-less-practitioner/
(this training will be in French - please contact me if you would like a private session in either french or english!)
Cette formation intensive de 2 jours vous enseignera comment les jeux d’Innovation peuvent vous faire découvrir plus profondément les besoins de client.
Basé sur le livre de Luke Hohmann, Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play, Greg Hutchings, instructeur et facilitateur certifié des Jeux d’Innovation™ avec des décennies d’expérience réelle va vous apprendre comment utiliser les serious games et les techniques de facilitation collaborative pour augmenter considérablement la valeur de vos interactions de groupe. Cet atelier interactif de deux jours vous apprend comment appliquer les serious games et des frameworks de collaboration en ligne et en personne. Des entreprises telle que Adobe, Avaya, Cisco, HP, Marie Eugenie, PayU, Bwin.party, Rackspace et Total, ainsi que des ONG et des institutions gouvernementales ont utilisé cette approche pour améliorer leurs produits et services.
Vous abordez les sujets suivants :
L’atelier de deux jours repose sur le modèle « apprendre en faisant » de l’éducation, en s’appuyant sur des études de cas réels, de pratique et d’échanges.
Jeux spécifiques couverts
Greg ajuste dynamiquement les jeux spécifiques abordés dans le cours selon vos besoins. Si vous êtes déjà familier avec la Speed Boat, ne vous inquiétez pas – nous allons explorer un nouveau jeu qui est adapté à vos besoins. N’hésitez pas à poser des questions précises sur des jeux spécifiques – Greg est apte à travers sa grande expérience dans la production, la facilitation et les innovation games a satisfaire votre curiosité !
Inclus dans cette formation certifiante :
Notre formation de deux jours permet aux participants d’otenir 120 crédits d’expérience dans le programme certifié Architecte de Collaboration — équivalent à une ceinture Orange.
Certified LeSS for Executives:
Principles, Organization and Change
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams of multi-skilled people, and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
What’s a key insight for senior managers to understand about LeSS? That it is not a practice or process. Rather, LeSS implies an organizational design change, which impacts group structures, hierarchy, team formation, roles, positions, processes, and basic policies (such as career path).
The Certified LeSS for Executives course is an in-depth course covering the (1) LeSS principles, (2) adoption, (3) the role of management, and (4) broadly, what a senior manager needs to know and do to help. The course includes stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises, and extensive Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
The Certified LeSS for Executives course is for people in manager roles that support a LeSS effort. And since a change to LeSS involves both Product Management and R&D (or “business” and “IT”) together, senior representatives of both groups will want to attend together.
This course will be given by Greg Hutchings, Certified LeSS Trainer.
Price, including certification, lunches and materials: 1800 Euros per person.
20% Early bird discount by October 30, 2016. 10% discount for groups of 3 or more enrolled from the same company.
Please send registration inquiries to greg@ameliorservices.com.
Hosted by:
Xebia
Paris
France
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS.works gives an overview. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Practioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
I'm pleased to announce that Ari Tikka, partner at Gosei Oy, and a very knowledgeable LeSS coach and trainer, will join me as co-trainer for this training. Ari and I have had the pleasure of working together on a LeSS adoption at PayU, the leader in online payments, in Bucharest in 2015.
For questions regarding the training, please contact greg@ameliorservices.com directly, and to register, please visit the website of Mosaic Works, our training partner in Bucharest, at http://mozaicworks.com/public-trainings-and-workshops/certified-less-practitioner-principles-to-practices/.
We hope to see you there!
- Greg and Ari
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS.works gives an overview. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism and cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
The Certified LeSS Practioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting and improving LeSS to your product development group. The course contains an overview of LeSS, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
In this 3 day intensive course, we'll devote roughly 50% of the time to presented information and 50% to exercises, questions, answers and specific case studies based on Greg's long experience in scaling agile in large organisations. Come with specific questions about your organization's needs in scaling agile, and Greg will be glad to address as many concrete needs as possible during the 3 days.
Greg has worked extensively in Bangalore with Agile development teams since 2005, when he first provided agile training there working with Naresh Jain at ThoughtWorks. We hope you can join us!
Contact us for questions, and to enroll for the training please visit the site of our training partner, Lean Pitch:
http://leanpitch.com/events/large-scale-scrum-less-training-in-bangalore/
Thanks and hope to see you there!
Ce cours certifiant intensif de 3 jours permettra aux participants de maîtriser les principes sous-jacents, les règles et les guides de Large Scale Scrum (LeSS).
La formation deroule en francais, avec un support en anglais. 50% presentation et 50% travaux pratiques, questions et reponses.
Je partagerai plusieurs cas d'etude et je vous aide de planifier la mise-en-place du LeSS en votre organisation.
Pour plus d'information et pour vous inscrire, visitez la site de Xebia France. Merci!
http://training.xebia.fr/formation/certification-less-practitioner/
Dans cette formation de 3 jours, les participants pourront maîtriser les principes, le cadre, les règles et les guides. Ce cours fournit des informations essentielles pour l’adoption et l’amélioration LeSS pour le développement de produits.
50% Théorie, 50% Pratique
Toute personne impliquée dans la mise en place de Scrum à l’échelle
Connaissance de base de Scrum : une formation Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) ou une formation ScrumMaster professionnel ou en lisant une bonne et complète introduction à Scrum comme le « Scrum Primer » (http://www.scrumprimer.org/primers/fr_scrumprimer20.pdf)
Address: 10, Rue de Milan
75009 Paris
Price: 2500 Euros HT.
Animee par: Greg Hutchings, Certified LeSS Trainer, Fondateur Amelior Services.
Enregistrement sur le site Zenika.
Certified LeSS for Executives:
Principles, Organization and Change
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams. LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams of multi-skilled people, and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.
What’s a key insight for senior managers to understand about LeSS? That it is not a practice or process. Rather, LeSS implies an organizational design change, which impacts group structures, hierarchy, team formation, roles, positions, processes, and basic policies (such as career path).
The Certified LeSS for Executives course is an in-depth course covering the (1) LeSS principles, (2) adoption, (3) the role of management, and (4) broadly, what a senior manager needs to know and do to help. The course includes stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises, and extensive Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of interest to the participants.
The Certified LeSS for Executives course is for people in manager roles that support a LeSS effort. And since a change to LeSS involves both Product Management and R&D (or “business” and “IT”) together, senior representatives of both groups will want to attend together.
This course will be given by Greg Hutchings, Certified LeSS Trainer, and Pierluigi Pugliese, CST.
Price, including certification, lunches and materials: 2500 CHF per person.
20% Early bird discount by April 30, 2015. 10% discount for groups of 3 or more enrolled from the same company.
Please send registration inquiries to services@ameliorservices.com.
Hosted by:
Zuehlke Academy
Wiesenstrasse 10a
8952 Schlieren (Zurich)
Switzerland
Playcamps are one-day regional conferences that promote the use of Innovation Games® and other serious games in problem solving through a combination of practice and theory. Targeting 50 to 100 attendees, managed by local planning committees, and supported by progressive organizations, Playcamps are now being organized around the world. Playcamps capture the best of traditional conferences and unconferences through a mix of compelling speakers and attendee-driven content, and include both in-person and online forms of serious play.
To register for the Playcamp, please visit EventBrite
Facility site sponsorship and Coffee/Break Sponsorship provided by Valtech
Coffee and pastries to fuel the morning sessions, starting at 9h00
Other sponsorships open, Gold, Silver and Bronze levels!
brought to you by Conteneo, Amelior Services and the Paris Serious Games community
Copyright © 2015 Conteneo Inc. (formerly, The Innovation Games® Company). All rights reserved.
Overview
Join us on 20-Mar-2015 for an Innovation Games® Master Class taught by Luke Hohmann and Greg Hutchings. This class is designed to build on your skills as an Innovation Games / Gamestorming Facilitator by teaching game design processes, scalable online play and new in-person games designed to solve advanced problems in strategy, competitive positioning, marketing and product development.
This unique class will feature:
Completion of the course gives you 60 Training Credits towards your Innovation Games Certified Collaboration Architect (CCA) belt!
Logistics
Date: 20-Mar-2015
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00PM UTC+1
Location: Valtech, 103 Rue de Grenelle, 75017 Paris.
Course Outline
We're going to move fast through the course material. We'll organize into small teams, review the content - and PLAY. Along the way we'll share challenging, insightful conversations and comfortably field your game-based questions (we'll gently side-step questions on hydraulic fracking). You'll end up wondering how time could literally fly by when you're seriously engaged in the future of collaboration.
Prerequisites
This is a Master Class, intended for those who have experience in producing and facilitating Innovation Games, Gamestorming, and other forms of strategic, collaborative play. A good rule of thumb is that you should be Certified Collaboration Architect, Orange Belt, or equivalent. If you're wondering about the difference between convergent and divergent thinking or are unsure as to when you might use Speed Boat or Remember the Future this class is not for you.
Cancellation Policy
For information on our cancellation policy please visit our website.
Special Offers
Can't get enough? Paid participants in the Master Class will be offered a reserved place and free participation in the Paris Innovation Games Playcamp on Saturday March 21st!
Graduates of the training will also receive a special steep discount on a Professional license to the Innovation Games online platform, purchased separately.
Instructors
Luke Hohmann is the Founder and CEO of Conteneo, Inc. (formerly, The Innovation Games® Company). Grounded in the science of play, Conteneo’s enterprise software platforms and professional services merge serious games, data analytics, domain expertise and collaboration to help enterprises optimize decision making in the areas of strategy, innovation, sales, product development and market research. Conteneo has a wide array of customers from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises including HP, Adobe, Rackspace, Serena Software, Oracle, Cisco and Reed Elsevier among others. These customers are currently using Conteneo to help solve their truly enduring problems: identifying unmet needs, developing and aligning on strategic choices, creating compelling offerings, and improving delivery processes.
Conteneo's brands include Innovation Games®, Knowsy®, Common Ground for Action and Trilicious.
Greg Hutchings is the Founder and President of Amelior Services, a privately held French company. Amelior helps you and your organization to work better together in building compelling products and services that delight your customers and beat your competition. We lead change management programs that we co-design with you in your current context, and provide training and coaching services for executives, technology, marketing and HR teams. Our goal is to improve the satisfaction of your employees, stakeholders, customers and partners through improved communication, alignment and focus. We have found Innovation Games ® invaluable in working with customers and employees, not only to help unlock hidden customer needs, but also to help guide portfolio strategy, understand and prioritize change management initiatives and to help teams to understand each other, which is why we’ve chosen to partner with Conteneo. Find out how we can help. http://www.ameliorservices.com.
Certified LeSS Practitioner - Principles to Practices
For more about LeSS, see LeSS.works
In this 3-day highly-participative course, participants get a thorough introduction to LeSS. And people 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 includes...
Why LeSS?
Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
LeSS Organizational Design
LeSS Principles
LeSS Rules
Two LeSS Frameworks
Multiple Feature Teams on One Product
ScrumMasters in Large-Scale Scrum
Role of Managers
Adoption: From Smallish to Huge
Multisite
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
Sprint Planning with Many Teams
Coordination and Integration: From Communities to Architecture
Scaling the Sprint Review and Retrospective
Multisite
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 dialog and explore solutions with the group.
For more information...
The website for LeSS, including case studies of various companies adopting LeSS (Ericsson, JP Morgan, and more) is http://less.works.
There are three books on LeSS:
Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
Bio of Craig Larman, co-creator of LeSS
Certified LeSS for Executives - Principles, Organization, and Change
For more about LeSS, see LeSS.works
What’s the single most important insight for a senior manager to understand about LeSS, Large-Scale Scrum? That it is not a practice or process. Rather, LeSS is an organizational design, which impacts group structures, hierarchy, site strategy, roles, positions, processes, and basic policies (such as budgeting, career path, and rewards).
Organizational design is the proper remit of executive management, and so it is critical that you actively both learn and lead a successful LeSS adoption. This is not something you can “phone in” your support for, or delegate to mid-level management.
A second key understanding is that this change involves both Product Management and R&D (or “business” and “IT”) together, and so heads of both groups will want to attend together.
In this 2-day highly-participative course, you get a thorough introduction to the organizational design implications of LeSS — in both R&D and Product Management — and managing its adoption, from the perspective of what a senior manager needs to know and do.
As highlighted in The Fifth Discipline — from MIT Sloan School of Business professor Peter Senge, and named by the Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books of the past 75 years — a critical skill for leadership is Systems Thinking, which is also a cornerstone principle of LeSS. Therefore, a significant part of the course focuses on actively learning to apply Systems Thinking to your organizational system and a LeSS adoption, with Causal Loop Modeling in small groups working together.
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 and working with senior management.
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
Why LeSS: Benefits to Your Company?
Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
Empirical Process Control for the Entire Organization
Lean Thinking in LeSS: Across All Functions
Systems Thinking: From Local to Global Optimization
Whole-Product Focus: Group and Role Impacts
Customer Centric: Process and Group Impacts
The 3 Key LeSS Adoption Principles
Getting Starting
Growing Your Adoption
Culture Follows Structure
Job Safety, but not Role Safety
From Smallish to Huge
Multisite Adoption
Feature Teams & Component Teams
ScrumMasters
Role of Managers
Typical Organizational Structures and Patterns
Multisite Implications
LeSS and LeSS Huge
Product Owner and the 5 Relationships
Definition of Done and it Organizational and Change Impact
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, at least 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 working with senior managers, will dialog and explore solutions with the group.
Greg Hutchings has worked for years scaling lean and agile, and has introduced LeSS to large global companies including Alcatel-Lucent and bwin.party digital entertainment. He is fluent in French and English, and will be available for Q&A in french and followup discussions.
For more information...
The website for LeSS, including case studies of various companies adopting LeSS (Ericsson, JP Morgan, and more) is http://less.works.
There are three books on LeSS:
Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum
Bio of Craig Larman, co-creator of LeSS
