Bas Vodde |Certified LeSS Practitioner | Minneapolis| September 2024

Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a organizational design system for agile product development with multiple teams. It consists of ten principles, a set of guides, rules for structural change, and experiments for context-specific advise. The rules create a structure for adaptive product development and the guides help with day-to-day support.

The Certified LeSS Practitioner course is an in-depth course covering the LeSS principles, 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 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 ScrumMaster or a Professional ScrumMaster course, or thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer and practicing Scrum.

Agenda :

The course is three days and consists of four different parts:

Part 1: Overview

Background of LeSS

The LeSS Complete Picture

Overview of LeSS and LesS Huge

Part 2: Principles

• Overview of 10 LeSS principles
• Whole Product Focus and Customer-Centric
• The More with LeSS Principle
• Systems Thinking

Part 3: Structure

• From resource thinking to people thinking
• From component teams to feature teams
• From projects to products
• From narrow technical products to broad products that align with end-customers
• From specialized "narrow-done" teams to cross-functional "broad-done" teams
• Adopting LeSS Huge with feature team adoption maps
• Optional: Organizational structures and roles of management

Part 4: Day-to-day

• How to do multi-team Product Backlog Refinement?
• How to do Sprint Planning?
• How to do Review and Retrospective?
• How do teams collaborate?

The course will roughly follow this agenda:

• Day 1: Overview and Principles
• Day 2: Structure 
• Day 3: Structure and day-to-day

Details :

After course completion

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 access to the book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS and the other two LeSS books

Rocket Nine Training Partner: Collaborative Leadership Team

Bas Vodde , 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 course.admin@rocketninesolutions.com