Certified Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) Practitioner: Principles to Practices

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.

The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is for anyone who is involved a large agile adoption. 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.

Target audience
Anyone working in organization that is doing product development with more than few teams:

• ScrumMasters
• Product Owners
• Managers
• Directors
• coaches
• change agents
• consultants

Program:

• Day 1:
  • Introduction
  • Scrum, LeSS and LeSS Huge Overview
  • LeSS Principles Organizing around Customer Value and Feature Teams

• Day 2:
  • What is your product?
  • Definition of Done and its impacts.
  • Feature Team Adoption Map
  • Product Owner and Product Backlog
  • Role of Management
  • Organizational impacts and typical LeSS organizational structure

• Day 3:
  • LeSS Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective
  • Consideration on technical practices when scaling
  • Integration & Coordination
  • Adopting LeSS in your organization
  • Case Study: Nokia Networks LeSS Huge adoption
  • ScrumMaster role within LeSS

After course completion:
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.

All participants get access to the draft of the new upcoming book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS