Elad Sofer, a certified Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) trainer and agile coach with 20 years of experience, emphasizes that scaling an organization through LeSS is challenging and requires specific practices tailored to context. He critiques common organizational behaviors that resist change and highlights key principles for effective agile practices. Upcoming LeSS practitioner courses are scheduled across various cities in 2017.

1. Elad Sofer - Certified LeSS trainer
follow me on twitter - @eladsof
Large Scale Scrum

2. About me - Elad Sofer
• Father and husband
• Live in Israel.
• 20 years in Software
development
• Agile coach
• LeSS certified trainer

4. Wrong
question!

5. The sad truth
• Succeeding with one-team-Scrum is
difficult enough.
• You organization is probably bigger
than it needs to be.
• LeSS is not going to help you with
scaling your organization.

6. The “LeSS” question is:

8. and…
There are no best practices.
Only good practices within a
specific context
The basic assumptions
Over complexity hurts agility

9. Larman's Laws of Organizational Behavior
1. Organizations are implicitly optimized to avoid changing
the status quo of middle- and first-level manager and
“specialist” positions & power structures.
2. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be
reduced to redefining or overloading the new
terminology to mean basically the same as status quo.
3. As a corollary to (1), any change initiative will be derided
as “purist”, “theoretical”, “revolutionary”, "religion", and
“needing pragmatic customization for local concerns” --
which deflects from addressing weaknesses and
manager/specialist status quo.
4. Culture follows structure.

10. 600 Experiments

11. 2008
Table of contents
1.Introduction
Thinking tools
Organisational tools
2.Systems Thinking
3.Lean Thinking
4.Queueing Theory
5.False Dichotomies
6.Be Agile
7.Feature Teams
8.Teams
9.Requirements Areas
10.Organisation
11.Large-Scale Scrum

12. 2010
Table of contents
1.Introduction
Action tools
2.Large-Scale Scrum
3.Test
4.Product Management
5.Planning
6.Coordination
7.Requirements
8.Design & Architecture
9.Legacy Code
10.Continuous Integration
11.Inspect & Adapt
12.Multisite
13.Offshore
14.Contracts

13. 3 Pages of Rules

14. 2015
http://less.works

15. 10 principles
Big gap

16. Finally, Some Guides

17. 2016
Table of contents
1.More with LeSS
2.LeSS
LeSS Structure
3.Adoption
4.Organise by
Customer Value
5.Managers
6.ScrumMasters
LeSS Product
7.Product Owner
8.Product Backlog
9.Definition of Done
10.Initial PBR
LeSS Sprint
11.Sprint Planning
12.Sprint
Coordination and
Integration
13.Product Backlog
Refinement
14.Sprint Review
15.Sprint
RetrospectiveMore or LeSS
16.More or LeSS;
Architecture, DevOps

19. Two Frameworks: LeSS and LeSS Huge
2-8 teams >8 teams

20. LeSS - Up to 8 teams

22. Scrum recommends that
the backlog is refined for
~2 sprints ahead
Items per spint per team: 3-4
For 8 teams: at any given moment
~100 backlog items.

23. LeSS Huge

25. Upcoming Certified LeSS
Practitioner courses
• April 19, 2017 - Riga, Latvia
• May 10, 2017 - Chicago, United States
• June 19, 2017 - Dublin, Ireland
• July 12, 2017 - Zurich, Switzerland
• August 1, 2017 - Hamburg, Germany
• Learn more at http://less.works