Scaling Agile with LeSS (Large Scale Scrum)

Elad Sofer - Certified LeSS trainerfollow me on twitter - @eladsof

Large Scale Scrum

About me - Elad Sofer

• Father and husband • Live in Israel.• 20 years in Software

development • Agile coach • LeSS certified trainer

Wrong

question!

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.

The “LeSS” question is:

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.

600 Experiments

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

3 Pages of Rules

2015

http://less.works

10 principles

Big gap

Finally, Some Guides

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

Two Frameworks: LeSS and LeSS Huge

2-8 teams >8 teams

LeSS - Up to 8 teams

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.

LeSS Huge

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

• Learn more at http://less.works