For development companies who need to scale Scrum for large development groups, LeSS is a set of principles, rules, and guides that provides validated experiments for scaling Scrum in your specific context. Unlike prescriptive & big method alternatives LeSS scales Scrum without adding extra layers and processes and engages people to create the necessary changes themselves.
Certified LeSS Trainer
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 books ‘Creatint Agile Organization’, ‘EMERGENT – Lean & Agile adoption’ 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.
The Certified LeSS Practitioner Training
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth 3-day course covering the LeSS organization design principles, framework and rules, and guides. It provides essential information for adopting LeSS to your product development group. This highly interactive course ensures you are ready to start adopting LeSS in your organization! The course covers the fundamental LeSS principles and thinking tools, hands-on tools, stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises, and extensive LeSS Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most of the interest to the participants.
Official LeSS Practitioner certification
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 a copy of the book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS.
Preparation for the LeSS Practitioner training
Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Professional Scrum Master Training, Professional Scrum Product Owner Training or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.
Who should attend the LeSS Practitioner training
The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is for management, Scrum Masters, and 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.
References & LeSS case studies
Want to learn more about how we have implemented LeSS? Please read our case studies at the bottom of this page including our paper, Why your current approach to Scaling Agility Isn’t working and Scale Your Product NOT your Scrum.
Agenda
In this 3 day training the following topics are discussed:
Day 1 – LeSS Principles & Fundamentals
- Organization Design
- Why LeSS?
- LeSS & LeSS huge overview.
Day 2 – Scaling Techniques & Practices
- Systems Thinking Local versus global systems optimization
- Organizing for Customer Value & Feature Teams.
- LeSS Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and Retrospective.
- Product Definition
- Product Ownership at Scale.
Day 3 – LeSS Adoption
- Adopting LeSS in your organization.
- Impact on Management & Human Operations.
- LeSS Organizational structure; distributed & multisite development.
- Various Case Studies at Financial and Technology companies.
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Certified LeSS Practitioner | Joost Looij
Interessante training van Cesario Ramos van Agilix. Bij dit type trainingen is de dynamiek en het succes in mijn ogen sterk afhankelijk van deelnemers en trainer. Het deelnemer veld was divers en interessant wat leidde tot goede constructieve discussies en verschillende inzichten op dezelfde problematiek. De facilitatie van Cesario was constructief, uitdagend en de focus lag erop om de oplossing in de groep te vinden. Ik ben met een aantal goede inzichten en contacten weg gegaan, ik kan de training van harte aanraden.
Joost Looij – Essent
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
KPN
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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