Certified LeSS practitioner in Madrid 6/24/2024 - 6/26/2025
- Course Agenda
- DAY 1: Setting the Stage
- DAY 2: Seeing Simplicity through Systems Modeling
- DAY 3: Modeling decisions through Systems Modeling & LeSS
- After course completion
- Participant Testimonials
- LeSS Adopters
- More Translation Details
- Training Venue Details
- Meals
- Tickets
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This 3-day in-person LeSS Certified Practitioner course will be conducted in a combination of Spanish and English. The vast majority of the written content has been translated into Spanish. Classroom-level discussions will be conducted in English when necessary and in Spanish when possible.
Translated content includes:
- Course Packet (130+ pages of reference content)
- Slides (175+ slides)
- System Modeling Variables.
- Most diagrams.
Both Spanish and English versions of the printed material will be provided. Participants may use the Spanish version for faster reading and understanding, and the English version to clarify any translation errors.
Support for live captioning in both English and Spanish has been anticipated and tested. As long as the class is large enough, there should be enough economy of scale to achieve this.
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
Participant Testimonials
LeSS Adopters
More Translation Details
You can find more details about the bilingual course strategy on my Global Certified LeSS Practitioner page.
Training Venue Details
To be determined.
The venue will most likely be a 4 or 5 star hotel in the center of Madrid. I will wait until enough people have pre-registered before formally contracting event space.
Meals
Lunch will be arranged, but will not necessarily be included in the price of the course until it becomes viable to do so. This helps to assure that I can run the course at as low of a break-even attendee threshold as possible.
We will most likely be walking to pre-arranged lunches at nearby table service restaurants. This will provide a better social experience for everyone, and allow us to spend some time outside of the event space.
Participant feedback indicates that the ability to provide assurance the course will reach viability sooner, tends to be more important to attendees than whether or not they will need to have their employer pay for lunch.