More with LeSS: A Decade of Descaling with LeSS - BeyondAgile & Seattle Scaled Agile

[Aki Namioka]

April 17th 2018 Jointly presented by BeyondAgile and Seattle Scaled Agile More with LeSS: A Decade of Descaling with LeSS @ AIM Consulting 14450 NE 29th Pl #200, Bellevue, WA 98007 6:30 - 8:30  p.m - Agenda Details Below RVSP:https://www.meetup.com/BeyondAgile/events/249294657/ Agenda 6:30             Food and Social Time (brought to you by Plaster Group) 7:00             Main Program 8:15           Retrospective Summary: As the co-creator of LeSS (with my friend and colleague Bas Vodde), after a decade of working worldwide with large product groups in their adoption of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), organizations are starting to realize that the main goal of LeSS is not to enable traditional big groups to "meet their commitment" more efficiently. And they are realizing that LeSS is not “Scrum contained within each team, with something different on top.” It seems some scaling frameworks contain Scrum like a fire fighter contains a brushfire. Then what is LeSS about? It is to see the ineffectiveness of traditional large-scale organizational design and to change it, by descaling with LeSS towards a simple model for multiple teams that optimizes for agility (flexibility), learning, and flow of value. It is figuring out how, with multiple teams, to apply the simple principles and elements of Scrum that encourage empirical process control, transparency, self-managing teams, and systems optimization. But any structural change per definition challenges the status quo of middle-management and single-specialist positions, leading to the dynamics of Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior. In this meetup I'll explore descaling with LeSS. Bio: Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and helps groups apply the LeSS framework for scaling product development. Craig has been named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time, is one of the first "Certified Scrum Trainers", and is the co-author of multiple books on scaling lean & agile development. Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own). In addition to organizational design, he has worked since the 1970s for better software designs, and is the author of one of the world’s best-selling texts on object-oriented design, patterns, modeling, and architecture. This meeting is brought to you by: Plaster Group & AIM Consulting