Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) Workshop

Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) is a framework for scaling Agile across multiple teams while reducing organizational complexity. Built on core Scrum principles, it helps organizations deliver more value with simpler structures.

The Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) course provides essential knowledge of LeSS principles, frameworks, and adoption practices. It covers LeSS and LeSS Huge, real-world case studies, interactive exercises, and expert Q&A.

Ideal for professionals involved in large-scale product development, the course recommends basic Scrum knowledge for maximum benefit.

Workshop Details

Prepare for the ScrumMaster Certification

Day 1

  • Introduction
  • Scrum, LeSS and LeSS Huge Overview
  • LeSS Principles
  • Organizing around Customer Value and Feature Teams

Day 2

  • What is your Product? (3 scenarios)
  • Definition of Done, UnDone and its impacts
  • Feature Teams and Feature Team Adoption Map
  • Product Owner and Product Backlog
  • LeSS Product Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Review and Retrospective
  • ScrumMaster role within LeSS
  • Organizational impacts and typical LeSS organizational structure

Day 3

  • Role of Management
  • Consideration on technical practices when scaling
  • Integration & Coordination
  • Adopting LeSS in your organization
  • Case Study
  • Head of Department
  • Vice President
  • Director of Products, Director of Technical Delivery, Director
  • Delivery Manager
  • Program and Product Manager
  • Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Agile Evangelist
  • Development Team Members
  • Architect

Explain the LeSS Framework and Principles

Be able to explain the LeSS framework, its principles, and the reasons for adopting LeSS.

Understand LeSS and LeSS Huge

Be able to explain the differences between and the need for LeSS and LeSS Huge frameworks.

Define a Customer-Centric Product

Define a customer-centric product and an appropriate organizational structure.

Distinguish Team Types

Be able to distinguish between component teams and feature teams.

Establish a Feature Team Adoption Roadmap

Learn how to establish an effective feature team adoption roadmap.

Identify and Remove Local Optimizations

Develop the ability to identify and remove local optimizations and replace them with more effective system optimizations.

Coach Toward System Optimization

Build the ability to coach teams, organizations, and stakeholders toward system optimization goals.

Understand LeSS Organizational Design

Establish and explain LeSS organizational design and its change implications for an organization.

Adopt LeSS Effectively

Explain and coach everyone on how to adopt LeSS successfully.

Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) certification issued by LeSS Company (less.works)

Each participant gets an account on Less.works to continue their learning journey

Participants can find additional information about LeSS, share course information, and stay in contact with other course participants

Participant workbook

All participants get access to the book Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

Attendees will receive 24 SEUs / PDUs

Two post-workshop group Q&A calls (60 minutes each) with Kamlesh Ravlani (Candidate LeSS Trainer)

LeSS quiz (optional)

  • Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) is facilitated by a Certified LeSS Trainer (CLT).
  • Agile For Growth is working with various CLTs to bring multiple LeSS learning opportunities in India in 2019.

Preparing for the Course

Basic Scrum knowledge is expected and can be achieved by attending a Certified ScrumMaster or a Professional ScrumMaster course, or by thoroughly reading Scrum introduction material such as the Scrum Primer or Scrum Guide and practicing Scrum.

LeSS Adoption

For LeSS adoption, it is recommended that the entire team takes the 3-day Certified LeSS Practitioner (CLP) course. It prepares the whole team to benefit from the LeSS framework, organizational redesign, systems dynamics, feature teams, requirement areas, LeSS guides, and experiments. The CLP course also covers ideas for LeSS adoption.

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