About me - Elad Sofer
• Father and husband • Live in Israel.• 20 years in Software
development • Agile coach • LeSS certified trainer
The sad truth
• Succeeding with one-team-Scrum is difficult enough.
• You organization is probably bigger than it needs to be.
• LeSS is not going to help you with scaling your organization.
and…
There are no best practices. Only good practices within a
specific context
The basic assumptions
Over complexity hurts agility
Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior
1. Organizations are implicitly optimized to avoid changing the status quo of middle- and first-level manager and “specialist” positions & power structures.
2. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be reduced to redefining or overloading the new terminology to mean basically the same as status quo.
3. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be derided as “purist”, “theoretical”, “revolutionary”, "religion", and “needing pragmatic customization for local concerns” -- which deflects from addressing weaknesses and manager/specialist status quo.
4. Culture follows structure.
2008
Table of contents
1. Introduction
Thinking tools
Organisational tools
2.Systems Thinking3.Lean Thinking4.Queueing Theory5.False Dichotomies6.Be Agile
7.Feature Teams8.Teams9.Requirements Areas10.Organisation11.Large-Scale Scrum
2010
Table of contents
1.Introduction
Action tools
2.Large-Scale Scrum3.Test4.Product Management5.Planning6.Coordination7.Requirements8.Design & Architecture9.Legacy Code10.Continuous Integration11.Inspect & Adapt12.Multisite13.Offshore14.Contracts
2016
Table of contents1.More with LeSS2.LeSS
LeSS Structure3.Adoption4.Organise by
Customer Value5.Managers6.ScrumMasters
LeSS Product7.Product Owner8.Product Backlog9.Definition of Done10.Initial PBR
LeSS Sprint11.Sprint Planning12.Sprint
Coordination and Integration
13.Product Backlog Refinement
14.Sprint Review15.Sprint
RetrospectiveMore or LeSS16.More or LeSS;
Architecture, DevOps
Scrum recommends that the backlog is refined for
~2 sprints ahead
Items per spint per team: 3-4
For 8 teams: at any given moment ~100 backlog items.
Upcoming Certified LeSS Practitioner courses
• April 19, 2017 - Riga, Latvia• May 10, 2017 - Chicago, United States• June 19, 2017 - Dublin, Ireland• July 12, 2017 - Zurich, Switzerland• August 1, 2017 - Hamburg, Germany
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