Certified LeSS Practitioner in DaNang Vietnam Spring 2025

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Learn LeSS While Enjoying A Luxury Beach Resort

Do you want to learn more about LeSS? Do you enjoy luxury beach resorts? Do you like great value for your money? The Da Nang Certified LeSS Practitioner course delivers all three!

For everyone in Vietnam who has been asking for a CLP course, I have one for you. This course in Da Nang area offers:

  • Amazing beaches;
  • Better hotel room prices than Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City;
  • Direct flights from many locations within Southeast Asia, including most larger cities within Vietnam;
  • Accessible via train and air within Vietnam; and
  • Reasonable ticket prices.

Video Introduction

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

LeSS Logo Sheet by Sector

When

Tuesday, Februrary 18, 2025 to Thursday, February 20, 2025

Where

Expected Venues:

I will not formally bind the event hotel space contract until enough people have signed up for the course to exit pre-registration. Once that happens I will concurrently lock-in the venue and process all credit cards on file.

I have detailed event venue pricing information from both of the hotels above. Each of these are large enough to have multiple event spaces capable of supporting the class.

If for whatever reason both of these venues fall through, there are several similar 5-star luxury beach resorts near them.

With an increasing amount of interest from within the Da Nang engineering community, I will try to select a 5-star luxury beach resort which is closer to the Da Nang airport and downtown if possible. This won’t matter for people who are traveling, but it will for local attendees who wish to sleep at home each night.

Shilla Monogram Infinity Pool

Shilla Monogram Seating Area

VinPearl From Beach

The preferred options above are just two of the luxury event hotels in the area.

Travel Logistics

  • The Danang airport has direct flights to a large number of destinations within Asia.

  • Danang is easily and inexpensively accessed by train from both Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi as well as by air.
    • Soft sleeper prices on the Reunification Express trains
      • Hanoi->Danang: USD$38 (1,137,000 VND) each way
      • HCMC->Danang: USD$45 (969,000 VND) each way
    • By Air
      • HCMC <->Danang: USD$85 (2,154,750 VND) round-trip economy
      • Hanoi <->Danang: USD$102 (2,585,700 VND) round-trip economy
  • The resort hotels typically provide transportation to/from the airport. When purchasing your hotel room, you will likely see an option to include an airport transfer in the room fee. The Da Nang aiport (DAD) and train station are very close to each other and presumably billed the same as an airport transfer.

Electronic Visa

Vietnam has visa on arrival for some countries, and requires an electronic submission ahead of time for others.

One of many places you can check the requirements is CIBT Visa Central.

Here is one of many YouTube videos which explain the visa requirements. This is video is produced by iVisa, which is a competitor to CIBT.

Vietnam wants you to visit and spend money, so none of this hard. Just make sure to take care of it ahead of time.

Language

The course will be presented in English.

It is possible to create a bi-lingual version of the course if one of the sponsoring companies is willing to help out with the translation efforts. I have done something similar in Spanish.

Meals

Lunch is included in the price of the course.

Course Posters

Please consider printing one of the course posters and placing it in your office kitchen, elevator, or other appropriate location to help drive awarness of the course.

February 18-20: Get Tickets