Gardening in LeSS

1. 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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9. 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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19. LeSS
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QUEUEING THEORY
SYSTEMS
THINKING
LEAN
THINKING
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
TOWARDS PERFECTION
EMPIRICAL
PROCESS CONTROL
LARGE-SCALE
SCRUM IS SCRUM
WHOLE
PRODUCT
FOCUS
CUSTOMER
CENTRIC
MORE
WITH LESS
TRANSPARENCY

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Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
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Item #1
Item #2
Item #3
...
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
Task
One
Product Backlog
Up to about eight
teams
One
Sprint Backlog
per team
One
Dedicated
ScrumMaster
for 1-2 teams

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Team A Sprint
Continuous
Coordination
and
Integration
Continuous
Coordination
and
Integration
Team A Sprint
Team B Sprint
Team C Sprint Team C Sprint
Team B Sprint
...
...
...
One Sprint

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LeSS Sprint Planning
Sprint
Planning
Part 1
Team
Representative
Product Backlog
Product Owner Team
Representative
2htimebox
Selected Product
Backlog Items
Selected Product
Backlog Items
Sprint
Planning
Part 2
Sprint Backlog
Sprint Backlog
2htimebox
Multi-team
Sprint
Planning2
Sprint Backlog

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LeSS Sprint Review/Retro
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Sprint
Review Product Owner
2htimebox
Retrospective
1.5htimebox
Overall
Retrospective

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LeSS Product Backlog Refinement
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Overall
Product
Backlog
Refinement
Team
Representative Product Backlog
Product Owner
Team
Representative
Short-ish
Potential
Items
Potential
Items
Product
Backlog
Refinement
5-10%Sprint
Team
Representative
Product Backlog
Multi-team
Backlog
Refinement

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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

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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 Larman
Bas Vodde
Practices for
Scaling Lean & Agile
Development
Large, Multisite, and Offshore Products
with Large-Scale Scrum
Craig Larman
Bas Vodde

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Temporary
Book Cover.
Will change!

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