Certified LeSS Practitioner
Principles to Practices
Description
Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is an organizational design framework, aiming at de-scaling organizations through reducing complexity. LeSS is optimized for adaptiveness (agility) in the service of the highest-level value.
LeSS builds on top of Scrum and the Scrum principles such as empiricism and cross-functional self-managing teams. LeSS provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development with multiple teams.
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 Scrum Master or a Professional Scrum Master course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Course Content
The following topics will be covered in the Certified LeSS Practitioner course:
Why LeSS?
- Intro
- Theory “X” and “Y”
Understanding LeSS Essentials
- Lean Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Global vs. local optimization
- Queuing Theory
- Product Definition
Discovering LeSS responsibilities
- LeSS roles overview
- Team & Feature Team
- Product Owner
- Scrum Master
- Coordination between teams
Working with the Product Backlog
- Product Backlog structure
- Product Backlog Refinement
- Specification by Example
Exploring LeSS Sprint
- Empirical Process Control
- Scrum re-visited
- LeSS
- LeSS Huge
- Requirement Areas
- Area Product Owner
Applying LeSS
- LeSS Adoption
- Definition of Done
- Feature Team Adoption Map
- LeSS Organization
- Management
- Technical Excellence
- Project or Product
- Case study: German big Insurance company
- Q&A
After successful Course Completion
- (free) digital versions of the first, second, and third LeSS books
- more LeSS learning (videos, etc)
- the course handout PDF and photos of everything created within the course that was on the walls
- contacts of all course participants
- a course certificate
Certification: The LeSS Practitioner Certification will expire after 2 years and will require a renewal fee.
