Scaling Agile with 
#LeSS 
@marekkirejczyk
Scaling Scrum 
with LeSS
First Rule of Scaling 
Scrum: Don’t!
FRAMEWORK 1:! 
Up to 10 teams
Roles
SCRUM vs. LeSS
Team
Product Owner
Artefacts
Product Backlog
Product Increment
Ceremonies
Sprint Plannings
Daily stand-up
Sprint Review
Sprint Retrospective
Community of interests 
Design Architecture 
Integration UX
FRAMEWORK 2:! 
Up to 100 teams
Backlog 
Product Backlog Area Backlogs
EXAMPLE
CRM for mobile telco 
• CRM 
• Order Management 
• Integration via EAI Tibco 
• Legacy customisation (eg. Billing, Business 
intelligence) 
• Integration with Central Product Catalog, Scoring
CRM for mobile telco 
• SCRUM for greenfield and waterfall for legacy 
• Over 80 people in Scrum teams 
• Over 7 Scrum teams 
• Nearly 1000 User Stories
Corporate constraints 
• Relatively short project lifespan 
• Integration with ~20 legacy systems 
• Classic management layer 
• Distributed team 
• Corporate polices
Daily stand-up 
Generic development 
teams Specialised teams 
Integration 
team 
Architect 
team 
Managers 
team 
Product 
Owners
Thank you 
@marekkirejczyk

Scaling Scrum with LeSS