Weekend Certified LeSS Practitioner Course at USA Hub Airport

  James  7 mins read.

Please send me an email at james@agilecarpentry.com if you are interested in attending this weekend Certified LeSS Practitioner course.

Weekend Certified LeSS Practitioner

For those of you working in a contract capacity, the loss of billable time during the work week is often a greater concern than the cost of the course itself. This time compressed Certified LeSS Practitioner course is designed with you in mind.

Unlike a normal 3-day course with 8 hour days, the course will be compressed into only two 12 hour days and run at an on-airport location or extremely close by.

By limiting the venues to only include those walk-able from airport security, you will be able to fly-in Friday evening and walk directly to your hotel room. Similarly, you will be able to roll out of your hotel bed early Monday morning and be at the airport security checkpoint only moments later. With a non-stop outbound flight, you are likely to be at your client’s office by at least mid-morning.

Full attendance will still be required, although everything possible will be done to make the long days as painless as possible. Unless you are willing to take a red-eye flight Sunday night, you will most likely need to book your hotel room through to Monday morning.

Considering the long training days, I fully expect to have the hotel provide breakfast, lunch, and dinner. It is likely a late dinner will be the celebratory ending to each long day.

I will be shocked if I am able to provide any significant discounts for this course. This course is being optimized to minimize attendee overall cost by minimizing the loss of billable weekday hours. This is expected to come at the cost of a higher price for the course itself. For a more typical mid-week Certified LeSS Practitioner course please see my other course listings.

Venue Details

The exact choice of hotel and venue will depend on where pre-registered attendees are based, and which on-airport hotels have availability with workable pricing.

The constraint of keeping non-stop flights short for both east and west coast attendees results in the short list below. I have already requested tentative weekend pricing from each of these venues for Saturday, March 25 to Sunday, March 26. Exact dates could change, but this will refine what is possible.

Venue Specifics May Differ From Design Intent

The above vision explains the intent. Once all the pricing and venue research is done, it is possible a very near airport resort venue such as one of the Gaylord Hotels a short Uber ride from DFW or DEN will be more sensible.

Agenda Tweak

Aside from the contents of Day 2 being split between Day 1 and Day 3, the standard agenda applies.

Course Agenda

The morning of the first of three days will be used to establish the overall context of the system modeling activities which follow. This will be done through a small amount of lecture, combined with both small and large group discussions.

Once the stage is set, we will transition to thoughtful analysis of the impact of different organizational design decisions on adaptability and value delivery using system modeling. Following each incremental framework-agnostic advance in our understanding, we will map concrete aspects of LeSS into our increasingly enlightened understanding of organizational system dynamics. The system modeling brings deeper insight, while mapping this insight into LeSS facilitates better retention along with an understanding of how to act on what is being learned.

We will continue to incrementally advance our depth of understanding using system modeling for the majority of the three days. Towards the end of the third day time will be spent: coalescing the whole of our enhanced understanding; providing guidance on how to move forward; and orienting participants on how to navigate a wealth of additional information.

DAY 1: Setting the Stage

The first of three days will be used to establish the overall context of the system modeling activities which follow. This will be done with a small amount of lecture, but primarily via small and large group discussions and exercises. We’ll follow this thread through the entire 3-day event.

  • Introduction
  • Avoiding Taylorism
  • Estimates, not Commitments
  • People are Valuable
  • System Optimization, not Local Optimization
  • Discovering Value
  • Implications of multiple Product Backlogs

DAY 2: Seeing Simplicity through Systems Modeling

On the second day, we will take what we learned about Systems Modeling on Day 1 and use those tools to understand:

  • Benefits of Cross-Functional Teams
  • Product Breadth Considerations
  • Private Code Impedes Technical Excellence
  • Managing Cognitive Fullness
  • Requirement Area Sizing Considerations

DAY 3: Modeling decisions through Systems Modeling & LeSS

As we continue to advance our depth of understanding using system modeling, the third day will be spent coalescing the whole of our enhanced understanding, providing guidance on how to move forward, and orienting participants on how to navigate a wealth of additional information.

  • Product Breadth and Adaptability
  • Avoiding Middlemen
  • LeSS Complete Picture
  • Structure Drives Culture
  • Adoption in your organization
  • Extended Q&A

After course completion

Each participant will be a Certified LeSS Practitioner and will get an account on less.works. Here one can find additional information about LeSS, share course information, and stay in contact with the other course participants.

All participants get access to the book: Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

U.S. Air-Force Specifics

This course is listed in the United States Air Force’s Education and Training Management System (ETMS). More details are available here.

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Please send me an email at james@agilecarpentry.com if you are interested in attending this weekend Certified LeSS Practitioner course.