Organizational Design Implications of Large-Scale Scrum and Agile Development - An Executive Seminar

Overview

2 days

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This course explains how to apply Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), our focus on consulting at coaching at relatively large products (e.g., 2000 people on one product) and relatively large enterprise transformations (e.g., 50,000 people) to adopting agile and lean principles, and scaling Scrum to this size. It also reflects our experience with large-scale multisite development in China, India, Brazil, Europe, and the USA, among other countries

This workshop covers the key concepts and practices that we've learned work for Large-Scale Scrum and agile adoption.


Audience

Participants should include all the senior managers that have complete control over the organizational design (structure, roles, positions, policies, processes), probably including C-level managers (CEO, COO, CTO, …), directors of R&D and of Product Mgmt, leaders and key managers in the particular product group that is first going to change, functional-group managers ("architecture group manager", "test group managers", ...), project/program manager, team leads, release managers, and so forth. It is better if it is larger group than a smaller group, since changing to real Large-Scale Scrum will impact *everyone*.


Prerequisites

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Outline

  • Large-Scale Thinking, Organization, and Action Tools
  • Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS): Frameworks LeSS-1 & LeSS-2
  • The LeSS Rules and Guides
  • Adopting LeSS
  • Organizational design & organizing by customer value
  • Scaling with Requirement Areas
  • Feature and component teams
  • Scaling the Product Owner role, and Product Management
  • Product Backlog in LeSS
  • ScrumMasters @ Scale
  • Scaling the Definition of Done, and organizational design implications
  • Preparing for Sprint 1 @ Scale, and Initial Product Backlog Refinement
  • Scaling Sprint Planning
  • Scaling coordinating & integration within a Sprint
  • Scaling Product Backlog Refinement
  • Joint and multisite Sprint Reviews
  • Joint and multisite Sprint retrospectives
  • Large-scale estimation, release planning and scheduling
  • Enterprise-level policies and systems that support agility
  • Architecture & design in LeSS
  • Hierarchical continuous integration systems
  • Agile documentation in large products
  • Agile offshoring
  • Multisite and agile development
  • Contracts


Maximum Participants

35


Methods of Consulting and Interaction

Causal-loop modeling, discussion, presentation, Q&A, workshop exercises


Environment - Room, Tools, Texts

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