Ask yourself the following questions:
- Has your organization decided that it no longer wishes to be fooled by the “Agile Theater” that peppers tens of thousands of people with shallow, superficial and fake changes?
- Do you feel that you wish to improve your organizational design more systemically, by bringing delivery people closer to users/stakeholders/customers, while reducing redundant org layers?
Great! Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) – Scrum by large product groups, could come to rescue. It works well within the context of overarching organizational dynamics that beyond one team.
BEWARE!
- Please, do not accept LeSS learning in its watered-down, simplified form, coming from unqualified trainers and large consultancies that do not fully understand the essence of LeSS and deliver it as a supersonic ‘fly-by’, by adding it’s summary, as a fractional item to other training agenda’
- Be cautious, when getting LeSS training from an agency or consulting firm, whose only advantage is that they are ‘local and in business for a long time’
- Do not rely on heavy decks of internal ‘agile centers of excellence’ that promote LeSS, as something that can seamlessly fit your existing organizational structure and be successfully integrated into your existing ‘agile operating model’
- Be careful, when getting LeSS training from people that claim that they can teach and coach LeSS, just because they have been teaching agile for a long time and have successful business
Before deciding if LeSS is for you and something that you wish to invest in, please learn LeSS from its authentic source: one of the qualified and accredited Certified LeSS Trainers and Coaches. James and Gene can tell you more about ‘why’.