LeSS Adoption Steps

How to adopt LeSS? I recommend the following steps and points.

First, we recommend that the scope of the first LeSS adoption by no more than a medium-sized product group of "50 people." Do no widen the adoption. Keep focused in that 1 group for at least 6 months. And in that group, really make the organizational design changes required by LeSS. No "fake Scrum" or "fake LeSS" that is often driven by Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior

First, I recommend starting with informed consent. Rather than trying to sell or push a LeSS adoption, I encourage a slow, deliberative education process in which the senior management stakeholders carefully and deeply learn the motivations, ideas, and organizational design change implications. Some the activities I recommend during this phase include

1. A set of particular readings that I advise.

2. (week-1 visit by me) Senior management (and other stakeholders) join with me in the Certified LeSS Practitioner or Certified LeSS for Executives course.

3. (week-1 visit by me) A 1-2 day post-course workshop with me to exhaust all their specific questions about the implications, combined with advice on what product group to start with and some starting steps.

4. After I leave (to reduce bias) the management team slow and deliberately discuss and then decide to go/stop with a first LeSS adoption. Combined with this, that the management team develop strong alignment, agreement, and support amongst themselves for this decision.