Certified LeSS Practitioner Training

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 ‘Coaching 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 Practioner 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.