Certified LeSS Basics

The Certified LeSS Basics course (CLB) is a brief introduction into the LeSS Framework. Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling agile development to multiple teams.

LeSS builds on top of the Scrum principles such as empiricism, cross-functional self-managing teams and provides a framework for applying that at scale. It provides simple structural rules and guidelines on how to adopt Scrum in large product development.

The Certified LeSS Basics course provides a 1-day overview of the framework and some of the essential concepts that it uses. It will help to determine whether LeSS is for you and/or your organisation or not. The Certified LeSS Basics course is also for anyone who is involved in a LeSS effort.

• Why LeSS?
• LeSS Overview and introduction to LeSS Huge
• LeSS Rules and Principles
• Feature Teams

All participants will be receiving a Certified LeSS Basics certificate and an account on the less .works website. The LeSS Basics Certificate will not expire and is a valuable industry known certificate.

• Articulate why LeSS
• Explain how LeSS is a Scrum-based approach on scaling
• Summarize what impact this has on the organisational design (structures, policies, etc.)
• Explain the dynamics of component teams vs. feature teams
• Explain all LeSS roles and their purposes
• Explain why there is one and only real PO and not so-called team POs
• Explain the LeSS Complete diagram, organizing LeSS information in terms of the principles, rules, guides, and experiments
• Explain how LeSS scales over 8 teams
• Analyze one’s own current organisations’ state
• Evaluate the applicability of LeSS in one’s own current work environment
• What organisational impacts LeSS adoption may cause
• What impact would LeSS adoption make to participants’ work life

• Product Owners and Product Management
• Agile Transformation Leaders, Consultants and Change Agents
• Organizational Leaders and Managers
• Experienced ScrumMasters and Agile Practitioners
• Team, Organizational Agile Coaches and Agile Trainers
• Software Engineers and hands-on technologists

Basic Scrum knowledge from training or working in Scrum Teams for a long time is expected (despite the title this is not a beginner’s course). This course is worth 8 SEU’s.

Browse through the LeSS Framework at https://less.works/less/framework/index.html

There are no exams and you will receive a Certified LeSS Basics certification.