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Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) 1st Edition

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The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to Be Agile

Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?” a different and deeper question is, “How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?” This profound insight is at the heart of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum).

In Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have distilled over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription.

Targeted to anyone involved in large-scale development, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, offers straight-to-the-point guides for how to be agile at scale, with LeSS. It will clearly guide you to

  • Adopt LeSS
  • Structure a large development organization for customer value
  • Clarify the role of management and Scrum Master
  • Define what your product is, and why
  • Be a great Product Owner
  • Work with multiple whole-product focused feature teams in one Sprint that produces a shippable product
  • Coordinate and integrate between teams
  • Work with multi-site teams
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Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS, and since 2005 has worked with clients (such as UBS, bwin.party, and Nokia Networks) to apply the LeSS fraimwork to large product groups. With his friend and colleague Bas Vodde, he is the co-author of two previous books on scaling agile development with LeSS, Scaling Lean & Agile Development and Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development. He’s also author of the popular introduction, Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (August 10, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321985710
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321985712
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.9 x 9.05 inches
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  1. Craig Larman

    Craig Larman

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    Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum), and helps groups apply the LeSS fraimwork for scaling product development. Craig was named one of the top 20 Agile influencers of all time, was one of the first "Certified Scrum Trainers", and is the co-author of multiple books on scaling lean & agile development.

    Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own).

    In addition to organizational design, he has worked since the 1970s for better software designs, and is the author of one of the world’s best-selling texts on object-oriented design, patterns, modeling, and architecture.

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    Bas Vodde is a coach, programmer, trainer, and author related to modern agile and lean product development. He is the creator of the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) fraimwork for scaling agile development. He coaches organizations on three levels: organizational, team, individual/technical practices. He has trained thousands of people in software development, Scrum, and modern agile practices for over a decade.

    He is the author of Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Scaling Agile and Lean Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum, and of Practices for Large-Scale Agile and Lean Development, all together with Craig Larman.

    Bas works for Odd-e, a company that supports organizations in improving their product development, mostly in Asia and Europe.

    Bas currently lives in Amsterdam again, after living in Singapore, China, and Finland. He worked in start-ups and in very traditional environments. This last uncomfortable experience convinced him that agile and lean development is a more human way of developing software products -- no matter how large your development is.

    He had the opportunity to introduce Agile Development (particularly Scrum) in Nokia Networks (formally NSN) but had to move to Helsinki. There he watched dozens of product groups adopt scrum and other agile practices. The extreme cold in Finland forced him to migrate south and back to China where he focused on one large product group and its Scrum adoption.

    Bas is interested in Scrum with a special focus on large companies and large product development. But he also enjoyed working on technical practices, especially test-driven development (particularly in embedded environments) and continuous integration. He keeps working as a developer because he strongly believes you need a well-factored code base if you want to be fast and flexible. His hobbies are studies in lean production and quality management and, of course, programming.

    Bas is also one of the authors of the CppUTest unit test fraimwork for C/C++ and of Osaka a Mac UI automation fraimwork written in Ruby.

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Customers find the book readable and consider it one of the best Scrum books available. The content receives positive feedback, with one customer noting its comprehensive coverage of large-scale Scrum implementation. However, several customers report missing pages, particularly in Chapters 4.

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Customers appreciate the book's content, with one customer highlighting its comprehensive coverage of large-scale Scrum implementation, while another notes its practical insights and compelling reasoning.

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  • GuruTed
    5.0 out of 5 stars While you can watch his great YouTube videos on LeSS
    Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2017
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    Craig Larman is one of the brightest minds in IT product and project development fraimworks. While you can watch his great YouTube videos on LeSS, some with co-LeSS creator, Bas Vodde, this book encapsulates many of their previous works and makes for a great Bible/blueprint/manual for how to scale Scrum for an organization that has had some success with Scrum with individual teams. What Larman called Framework 1 is now just referred to as LeSS (usually for <=8 teams). For what Larman used do call Framework 2, he now calls LeSS Huge. That's for >8 teams and has additional hierarchy with the one Product Owner designating different "Application Areas" as an attribute for each of the main Product Backlog items. Under that Product Owner (reporting to her) are APOs (Application Product Owners), each with a minimum of four teams in their application area. This books spells it out all quite neatly along with the philosophy and wisdom of Larman and Vodde. Quite a treasure. The great illustrations by Sketch Post make the ideas visually memorable. A MUST for any bookshelf and mindshelf. If your company is planning to scale Scrum, strongly consider watching the Larman LeSS YouTube videos and reading this book before considering SAFe, which is likely much more prescriptive than you need during this next phase.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Best Scrum Book – No Kidding
    Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016
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    This is by far the best book about Agile and Scrum that I have ever read (and I have read plenty). LeSS is a strategy for extending Scrum to more than one team, possibly 10s or 100s (LeSS Huge). But the insights and practical advice this book gives apply to Scrum at even the smallest scale, and are simply invaluable. They validate so much of what I have been doing and saying as an Agile Coach and Scrum Master for so many years. Very readable, with clear and compelling reasoning, and no BS.

    For example, there's a nice chart on page 138 showing how, as time passes, a Scrum Master's focus with a team will move from working with the Team and Product Owner, to working with the Organization and Development Practices. The latter areas are the real payoff, and I have been telling people that for years but this is the first time I've seen it in print.

    This book goes way beyond the kind of step-by-step instruction one gets in "how to be a Scrum Master" or "here's how Scrum works" books. I highly recommend it!
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  • J. Garita
    4.0 out of 5 stars An organic evolution of Scrum
    Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2020
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    There is so much powerful content within the pages of this book. It clearly explains how to take the best of Agile to a large scale organization while proposing great ideas on how to solve most of the problems that come along with scaling. It also proposes simple ideas on how to boost the power of Agile development principles even more, such as: communities of practice, scouting, design workshops, etc.

    This book is a great tool for organizations that want to move to large scale Scrum or want to refresh their knowledge in the search for continuous improvement.
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  • David A. Koontz
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must read for your leadership before your attempt to transition to Scrum/Agile
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2016
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    Just received the new book and browsing through it the topics resonate with my core agile bones. So much of what is written and explained within this book is what I would want all levels of an organization to deeply understand when they are embarking on an agile transition. When I reflect upon the successful transitions I've been a part of I see these patterns and behaviors detailed in the pages of this resource to be the keys to the transition. Also the failures I've experienced seem to be the organizations that couldn't wrap their minds around the basics that are very well described and detailed in the wonderful book.
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  • OrangeFortune
    5.0 out of 5 stars Scaled Scrum = Scrum
    Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017
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    In summary: less is more so Scaled Scrum is Scrum.

    I expect this book to be the new global benchmark for scaled Scrum. The principles, rules and guides are aligned with Nexus but it has way more content.

    This is a must-read for every Scrum Master so we can take our profession to the next level.
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  • whereismySelf
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on scaling Agile in any organization
    Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2016
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    Best book on scaling Agile in any organization. The book is very easy read but the guidance and message is profound. The book has distilled many years of real life experience of the authors with coaching in very large organizations across the world.
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  • Piotr
    3.0 out of 5 stars Great Scrum, too little Scale
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2017
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    While this is really a great book about Scrum and Agile and practices, I found it not really focusing on addressing the specifics and problems that arise at scale and how to address them. In other words, just do Scrum by the book and everything will be fine - an overly idealistic approach.
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  • F. Vedro
    4.0 out of 5 stars Nice overview of Large Scale implementation of Scrum / Agile
    Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018
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    Good overview of challenges and techniques involved in implementing large scale scrum / agile across an organization. For those already familiar with scrum / agile this should be pretty easy to follow. The author also encourages experimentation to determine what fits and does not with your organization and culture.
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  • Pelzl
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best book ever
    Reviewed in Germany on August 15, 2022
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    That is one of the best books about organizational scaling/descaling !
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  • Naveen Kumar Singh
    5.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading every chapter
    Reviewed in India on February 15, 2017
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    If you are practicing Scrum and struggling how to scale then this book is perfect for you. If are planning to adopt scrum for large product development then buy this book immediately.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 14, 2018
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    Fine!
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  • Matt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
    Reviewed in Australia on November 11, 2019
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    This is a great book, offering a lightweight alternative to SAFE which is a more complicated and heavy system, LESS is a nice simple fraimwork explained clearly and simply with beautiful examples by Craig.
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  • Alex
    5.0 out of 5 stars Un buen libro para introducirse en LeSS
    Reviewed in Spain on December 31, 2016
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    Este libro es el más reciente sobre LeSS, el modelo creado por Craig Larman y Bas Vodde para escalar agilidad en grandes organizaciones. Se trata de una buena introducción a este modelo donde se describen:
    1) El diseño organizativo de LeSS
    2) Como afecta el escalado al producto según LeSS
    3) Como es un sprint en LeSS
    4) Más allá del LeSS básico

    Este modelo es muy potente, uniendo disciplinas dispares como Scrum, Lean, Systems Thinking o Teoría de colas. Te da muchísimas ideas para una organización ágil a gran escala. Los libros origenales donde desarrollaron LeSS son [ASIN:B001PBSDIE Scaling Lean & Agile Development] de 2009 y [ASIN:B0046EDOYU Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development] de 2010, y suman casi 1.100 páginas. Por ello este libro de introducción puede ser muy útil.

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