Certified LeSS Basics Training

The Certified LeSS Basics training is an introductory training covering the LeSS principles, framework, and rules. It provides essential information for understanding LeSS and how LeSS can help your product development group.

LeSS

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 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 Basics Training

The Certified LeSS Basics course covers the basics of LeSS so that you can understand if LeSS is suited for you and how to start using some of the LeSS principles and techniques.

Online Version

We try to create an excellent learning experience by facilitating the class with one trainer per 8 participants. Each group of max 8 participants in this setup will have one facilitator during the exercises.  

Agenda:

  1. Why LeSS?
  2. LeSS Principles Overview
  3. The LeSS Frameworks
  4. Feature Teams

Who should attend the LeSS Basics Training?

The Certified LeSS basics course is for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort. Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum. 

Certified LeSS Trainer

The trainer for this course is Cesario Ramos, Cesario Ramos works on large scale transformation all over the world in banking, insurance, and high tech industries. He is also a Certified LeSS Trainer and Professional Coach. In 2010 he founded AgiliX, a consulting company, that provides consulting and training worldwide. Cesario is the author of the book ‘EMERGENT’ and co-author of the book ‘A Scrum Book’. He is a frequently invited speaker at conferences around the world and organizer of the international Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) conferences. 

Official LeSS Basics Certification

All participants will receive the LeSS Basics certification 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.

Preparation for the LeSS Basics training

Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master TrainingProfessional Scrum Product Owner Training or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.


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What others say

Certified LeSS Practitioner | Diego Callizo

I am so happy I decided to participate in this training!. Cesario is a rare to find Agile Genius. I got tons of value by responding a lot of my old questions.  
I.e. What are the musts in order to facilitate a successful Agile adoption?   

I liked that the training is not based on prescribing roles and structures but mostly on changing the way we understand and think about complex systems. Some of the concepts explained like i.e. system thinking transform the way I understand big scale software development forever.

Diego Callizo

Certified LeSS Practitioner | Johan Janssen

Perfect LeSS training in 3 days and compliments for Cesario Ramos for all the inspiration and answers!

Johan Janssen

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Certified LeSS Practitioner | Wout Jansen

Very usefull and hands-on training; a lot of best practices and many tips and tricks from the real world where discussed by an enthousiastic trainer (Cesario). I feel that I can use LeSS right away in my assignment.

Wout Jansen

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