Gardening in LeSS

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The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from

self-organizing teams.

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Evidence-based information True results

People who need Agile idea the most are large companies

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What is a product?

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Component vs. Feature teams

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Feature Teams

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Team has the necessary knowledge and skills to complete

an end-to-end customer-centric feature. If not, the team is

expected to learn or acquire the needed knowledge and skill.

Feature team:

- stable and long-lived

- cross-functional

- cross-component

customer-

centric

feature

potentially

shippable

product

increment

Product

Backlog

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Descaling

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Scrum itself is scaled-up in order to descale organization structure (roles, responsibility segregation, management layers, etc.)

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Simplify architecture

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LeSS

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QUEUEINGTHEORY

SYSTEMSTHINKING

LEANTHINKING

CONTINUOUSIMPROVEMENTTOWARDSPERFECTION

EMPIRICALPROCESSCONTROL

LARGE-SCALESCRUMISSCRUM

WHOLEPRODUCTFOCUS

CUSTOMERCENTRIC

MOREWITHLESS

TRANSPARENCY

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Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)

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Item #1Item #2Item #3

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TaskTaskTaskTaskTaskTask

TaskTaskTaskTaskTaskTask

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One Product Backlog

Up to about eight teams

One Sprint Backlog

per team

One Dedicated

ScrumMasterfor 1-2 teams

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Team A Sprint

Continuous

Coordination

andIntegration

Continuous

Coordination

andIntegration

Team A Sprint

Team B Sprint

Team C Sprint Team C Sprint

Team B Sprint

...

...

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One Sprint

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LeSS Sprint PlanningSprint

Planning Part 1

Team Representative

Product Backlog

Product Owner Team Representative

2h timebox

Selected Product Backlog Items

Selected Product Backlog Items

Sprint Planning Part 2

Sprint Backlog

Sprint Backlog

2h timebox

Multi-team

Sprint

Planning 2

Sprint Backlog

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LeSS Sprint Review/Retro

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Sprint Review Product Owner

2h timebox

Retrospective

1.5h timebox

Overall Retrospective

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LeSS Product Backlog Refinement

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Overall ProductBacklog

Refinement

Team Representative Product Backlog

Product OwnerTeam

Representative

Short-ish

Potential Items

PotentialItems

ProductBacklog

Refinement

5-10% Sprint

Team Representative

Product Backlog

Multi-team

Backlog

Refinem

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LeSS

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Build Your Method Up -Don’t Tailor It Down

For large groups, LeSS hits a sweet-spot balance between defined concrete elements and empirical process control

Now we can do fun stuff

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Gardening over architecture

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Sustainable development• Initial, overall, and per team Product Backlog refinement• Overall and per team Sprint planning• Design workshops with whole team (not only tech leads or architects)• Multi-team design workshops for broader design issues• Architects and engineers are regular team members and write code• Tiger team• Design / architecture community• Component mentors• Product vision workshops (with everyone)• 1-hour decision making• Architectural concern wall

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Scaling Lean & Agile Development

Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum

Craig LarmanBas Vodde

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile

DevelopmentLarge, Multisite, and Offshore Products

with Large-Scale Scrum

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less.works

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