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Certified Large Scale Scrum for Executives with Ben Maynard- IN PERSON
Certified Large Scale Scrum for Executives with Ben Maynard- IN PERSON
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Certified Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)
for Executives
Are you an executive looking to adopt LeSS and move to a Product & Customer-Centric organisational design?
This course is specifically designed for the executive and senior manager, covering the successful patterns for organisational change when adopting LeSS and moving to a Product & Customer-Centric organisational design. The flow and focus of the course will be tailored to the expertise and growth areas of the people in the room to create a unique and agile experience that learners get the most from.
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 and cross-functional self-managing teams of multi-skilled people and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines for adopting Scrum in large product development.
What’s a key insight for senior managers to understand about LeSS? That it is not a practice or process. Rather, LeSS implies an organisational design change, which impacts group structures, hierarchy, team formation, roles, positions, processes, and basic policies (such as career path).
The Certified LeSS for Executives course is an in-depth course covering the (1) LeSS principles, (2) adoption, (3) the role of management, and (4) broadly, what a senior manager needs to know and do to help. The course includes stories on LeSS adoptions, exercises, and extensive Q&A to ensure we discuss the topics most interested the participants.
Meet your trainer- Ben Maynard
Passionate about organisational culture and design that enables the creation of value both for an organisation’s customers and its people, Ben wants to know we are building the right product and building it in the right way.
In recent years Ben has experimented with ways to balance an organisation’s desire for control, collaboration and innovation through educating, coaching and leading organisational transformations to get more with LeSS.
The growth of people to be effective in achieving the organisations and their personal goals is the critical catalyst for this. As is coaching, training and mentoring people at all levels of the organisation.
What is 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 of multi-skilled people, 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 Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) framework
What’s the single most important insight for a senior manager to understand about LeSS?
That it is not a practice or process.
Instead, LeSS is an organisational design which impacts group structures, hierarchy, site strategy, roles, positions, processes, and basic policies (such as budgeting, career path, and rewards).
Organisational design is the proper remit of executive management, so you must act to learn and lead a successful LeSS adoption. This is not something you can “phone in” your support for or delegate to mid-level management.
A second critical understanding is that this change involves both Product Management and R&D (or “business” and “IT”) together, and so heads of both groups will want to attend together.
As highlighted in The Fifth Discipline — by MIT Sloan School of Business professor Peter Senge and named by the Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books of the past 75 years — a critical skill for leadership is Systems Thinking, which is also a cornerstone principle of LeSS.
Therefore, a significant part of the course focuses on active learning to apply Systems Thinking to your organizational system and a LeSS adoption, with Causal Loop Modelling in small groups working together.
What else do you need to know?
Who is this training course for?
The Certified LeSS for Executives course is for people in manager roles that support a LeSS effort.
And since a change to LeSS involves both Product Management and R&D (or “business” and “IT”) together, senior representatives of both groups will want to attend together.
What topics are covered?
The following topics will be covered in the Certified LeSS for Executives course:
- Why LeSS: Benefits to Your Company?
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Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
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Principles & Management Implications
- Empirical Process Control for the Entire Organization
- Lean Thinking in LeSS: Across All Functions
- Systems Thinking: From Local to Global Optimization
- Whole-Product Focus: Group and Role Impacts
- Customer Centric: Process and Group Impacts
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Adoption
- The 3 Key LeSS Adoption Principles
- Getting Starting
- Growing Your Adoption
- Culture Follows Structure
- Job Safety, but not Role Safety
- From Smallish to Huge
- Multisite Adoption
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LeSS Structure & Roles
- What is your product? A LeSS perspective
- Organizing around Customer Value and Feature Teams
- Role of Managers
- The Business-Driven Product Owner
- Typical Organizational Structures and Patterns
- Multisite Implications
Are there any course prerequisites?
There are no rigid prerequisites for attending this training. However, as this is an intermediate-level course for practitioners, delegates should have 6 months of agile experience. Instead, we will build upon the knowledge you already have working with agile teams.
Total attendance and participation are mandatory. The trainer will formally assess delegates to meet the certification criteria throughout the course.
What is included in the training?
- Engaging and immersive in-person training with world-class venue
- Training from seasoned Agile Coaches
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All participants get access to an electronic copy of all three Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Books.
