Course Environment - LeSS

Contact Information

Craig Larman, craig@craiglarman.com

ORDER SOON! Whiteboard-Like Solutions

• ORDER THESE ASAP

• Because there are exercises involving "WHITEBOARD CLING-SHEETS", we need this supply -- and a VAST flat clear wall area per table.

• Order ONE ROLL PER EACH TABLE OF 5 people. e.g., 20 people = 4 rolls, each 40 feet. As explained in related link, your best choice is the "wizard wall" 40-foot refill rolls, via Amazon.

• ORDER THESE ASAP... this is a list of online suppliers for whiteboard cling-sheets: Whiteboard-like Sheets for Agile Modeling On Walls

Walls

• Teams will be doing agile modeling at vast wall areas covered with "WHITEBOARD CLING-SHEETS", SO IT IS CRITICAL THAT each team needs lots of CLEAR FLAT wall space for this. To be clear: There must be lots of clear empty wall space, and we must be able to use the walls, and put things on the walls.

Room

• People will be organized into table-teams, averaging 5 or 6 people per team. The tables are ideally in separate islands, circular or square, with a team at each.

Table Layout

• Round tables are ideal, but we can live with rectangular layouts

• Tables should not be against the walls; we are using the walls as a working area in this course.

• Distribute the tables throughout the room

BEER & WINE & Cheese (really)

• each day, from perhaps 16:00 to 18:00, we will be doing a deep-dive structured Q&A session. this really goes better with some beer ;). not a bottle per person, but just a little to share after a long day of information and activities.

• i suggest 1 bottle for each 2 people, per day. ideally Belgian (this is a LeSS rule) e.g., Duvel. or a local crafty beer, or Sam Adams

• 1 bottle of decent red, 1 bottle of decent white

• 1 cheese tray with crackers

• ideally, an "air remover" thingy for the wine bottles, so can consume the open bottles over the 3 days

• if there's no fridge we can use, if you can bring a cooler with some ice, great!

Supplies for the Coach/Speaker

Read this: Supplies - for Coach Use

Computers, Software and Networking

• no computers

• Internet access for the coach; it is not needed for the students

Supplies for Each Table of Participants

Per Team-Table (e.g., of 5 people):

• 1 package of 3x5 inch Post-It notes

• 5 BLACK "Sharpie" style small fine-tipped black marker pens

• 5 BLACK WHITEBOARD marker pens