Craig Larman |Certified LeSS Practitioner | Minneapolis| April 8 - 10

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Participants (senior managers, product developers, ...) explore a deep understanding of LeSS, Large-Scale Scrum, for lean & agile development with many teams working together on one product. We explore adoption, new organizational design, systems thinking & optimization, the role of management, and concretely how to work together in a Sprint at scale in terms of coordination, architecture, planning, and more.

(Course runs until 17:30 on all 3 days, including day 3; for certification, full attendance required)

Critically, we explore the Big Idea of more with LeSS: simplifying & descaling over "scaling", or... scaling product development by descaling the organization.

Perhaps most importantly and interestingly, this course runs mostly as a series of "at giant whiteboards" deep-thinking exercises involving systems modeling in small teams to explore why, so that people can own the ideas by discovering them for themselves, rather than "renting" the ideas. A focus on why and owning not renting are important elements of LeSS and how it's learned, and Craig emphasizes this in the course learning experience.

Join Larman for a deep dive into more with LeSS, based on his long experience with LeSS adoptions.

Feedback from previous courses

“It was inspiring to discuss Large-Scale Scrum with Craig Larman. The content of the course was top-notch.” – Steve Alexander

“The delivery was outstanding and the supporting material vast and detailed.” – Simone Zecchi

“The best course I have ever been on. Totally blown away.” – Simon Powers

In addition to course material, each participant will also receive 3 books on LeSS:

• Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS
• Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite & Offshore Development with LeSS
• Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for LeSS

Agenda :

• descaling and simplifying over scaling: more with LeSS
• LeSS principles, frameworks, guides, experiments
• two LeSS frameworks: basic & LeSS Huge

• pre-adoption: building interest
• the adoption guides
• 3 principles
• getting started
• scope of first adoption
• stories of LeSS adoptions 

• local versus global systems optimization
• local optimization in backlogs
• local optimization in product definition
• local optimization in planning
• local optimization in in analysis & design
• local optimization in programming

• redefining the scope of product, and the impact on global optimization
• portfolio management

• shu-ha-ri and frameworks
• empirical control
• why "More with LeSS"?
• systems optimization
• occupational psychology

• preparation before first Sprint
• Sprint Planning with many teams
• coordination & integration: from communities to architecture
• scaling Product Backlog Refinement
• scaling the Sprint Review & Retrospective
• multi-site development

• Requirement Areas
• Area Product Owners
• role of Overall Product Owner
• Area Backlogs
• adoption

• Managers in a LeSS organization
• Scrum Masters at scale
• Product Owner in LeSS

After successful course completion (attending full-time, etc)...

All participants will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here you can find:

• (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

Price: $2,699 USD

Early Bird Price: $2,299 USD (End Date: February 27, 2023)

Additional Price Information: group discounts available

NOTE: class will meet from 8:30AM to 5:30PM all three days including day 3. Please arrange your schedule accordingly. Participants MUST plan to stay until precisely 5:30 on day *3* i.e., 5:30 on ALL days.

Craig Larman, cofounder of LeSS, and the trainer for this course, has partnered with Collaborative Leadership Team, a Minneapolis-based agile training and coaching consultancy led by Angela Johnson, CST, to host this course. Please refer any logistical questions about this training to our training coordinator whose contact information can be found below. Course content related information can be found on LeSS.works. This particular Large Scale Scrum class is listed here.

Cancellation Policy -

You may request to cancel your ticket for a full refund (less credit card fees) up to 2 weeks before the date and time of the class.

Cancellations between 1 & 2 weeks before the class will be charged a $100 cancellation fee.

Cancellation requests made within 1 week of the class date and time will be charged a $150 cancellation fee.

A student may transfer their ticket to another student at anytime with no charge as long as they provide notification to Collaborative Leadership Team.

If you need assistance with other logistical details of the class, please contact Rocket Nine at [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

West End Conference Center, 1600 Utica Ave Ste 100, Minneapolis, United States