Certified LeSS For Executives(CLE) w/ Micheal James and Gene Gendel

Why take this course with Michael James and Gene Gendel??

By combining their efforts in this training, Michael and Gene will amplify the impact that this course can have on its participants. Here is why:
Michael James was selected as a Certified Scrum Trainer in 2006 by Scrum's original proponent, Ken Schwaber. He has created the world's most popular online learning resource for Scrum, the most successful illustrated distillation of Scrum's definition, and the most quoted scope declarations of the Scrum Master role (https://ScrumMasterChecklist.org, referenced in books by at least four other Agile authors). Michael is a software process mentor, team coach, and Scrum Trainer with skills in Product Ownership (business), Scrum Mastery (facilitation), and the development team engineering practices (TDD, refactoring, continuous integration, pair programming) that allow Scrum to work. Michael has been involved with LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) longer than anyone else on the West Coast.
Gene Gendel is the most active US-based LeSS trainer who, since 2015, has built the largest, fastest-growing, and most active Large Scale Scrum community in the world, which has more than 7300 members today. Gene is one of the very few Certified Enterprise Coaches that, after a decade of service, has been honored in the Emeritus status.

Since the mid 2000s, Gene has been deeply involved in product development and product management, servicing many organizations of various sizes and industries. Gene's focus on organizational design dynamics and specific organizational areas, such as HR and budgeting, has helped him tremendously to influence senior executives that he frequently works with. Over the last few decades, Gene has produced hundreds of popular blogs and publications about Scrum, LeSS, Kanban, and agile.

Gene is a famous self-taught cartoonist and satirist, whose "Agile Theater" graphics have taught and entertained tens of thousands of people over the decades, around the globe.
The 'double impact' from CLE training, received from Michael and Gene will combine the knowledge and wisdom of two very experienced thought leaders.

About this course:

IMPORTANT: This course is designed for people that have executive decision-making power and/or willingness to make executive-level organizational improvements. The course is heavily based on system thinking/system modeling and product centricity.

In this course, there will be discussions of the topics that are often considered to be a "do not go there" zone, such as HR norms and values, budgeting, and reporting structure.

The course will explain business agility as an undetachable element of organizational (eco-systemic) agility.

In this course, we shall also explain why lean and adaptive organizations, such as large-scale scrum organizational systems, improve business resilience and, therefore, increase organizational chances of surviving and remaining competitive and successful.

Finally, in this course, there will be plenty of references to classic emissions and misappropriations with scaling that are seen in the industry. Systemic root causes and consequences of such emissions and misappropriations will be explained.

IMPORTANT NOTE: EVEN THE MOST AMAZING LESS TRAINING WILL NOT SUBSTITUTE FOR LESS COACHING SUPPORT, SO PLEASE CONSIDER BOTH!!

The standard following topics will be covered in the Certified LeSS for Executives course:

• Why LeSS: Benefits to Your Company?
• Systems Thinking, Organizational Design, and the Contract Game
• Principles & Management Implications
• -----Empirical Process Control for the Entire Organization
• -----Lean Thinking in LeSS: Across All Functions
• -----Systems Thinking:
• -----From Local to Global Optimization
• -----Whole-Product Focus: Group and Role Impacts
• -----Customer Centric: Process and Group Impacts
• Adoption
• -----The 3 Key LeSS Adoption Principles
• -----Getting Started
• -----Growing Your Adoption
• -----Culture Follows Structure
• -----Job Safety, but not Role Safety
• -----From Smallish to Huge
• -----Multisite Adoption
• LeSS Structure & Roles
• -----What is your Product? A LeSS Perspective
• -----Organizing around Customer Value and Feature Teams
• -----Role of Managers
• -----The Business-Driven Product Owner
• -----Typical Organizational Structures and Patterns
• -----Multisite Implications

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Important Logistics:

• Order Confirmations: Once you register for the course, Eventbrite will send you an order confirmation. It will be considered as your official proof of payment and course registration. Eventbrite does not invoice ahead of payment. If you mandate to be invoiced prior to paying, you must contact an event organizer before registering and arrange for another method of payment (e.g. direct deposit, ACH wire, PayPal, purchasing system). Special arrangements would have to be made for the latter case. Event organizers are not obligated to provide a proof of payment receipt (Eventbrite order confirmation serves this purpose).
• Refunds: Attendees can receive a full refund up to 30 days before the event start date. After that, a participant will be able to receive a 50% refund up until 2 weeks before the course. After 2 weeks cut off time, there will be no refunds offered, as organizers will have their own commitments to costs for each registrant’s place. However, a registrant who decides not to attend after the deadline has passed, may look for substitution (someone else to take their place), in which case there will be a refund, minus transaction costs.
• Cancellation by Organizers: Organizers reserve a right to cancel the event up to 1 week before its start. Although unlikely, it could happen if there were not enough registrants to make the course feasible or because of other unexpected/undesirable conditions (e.g. instructor is ill, short notice cancellation by facility). In such unlikely instances, full refunds will be offered to registrants. We recommend to all out-of-town registrants to either acquire travel cancellation insurance and/or wait until 1 week before the course to book all non-refundable travel/accommodations.

You may also contact us at any time to inquire about the status of the course.

Host or Publisher Gene Gendel - Certified LeSS Trainer, Certified Enterprise & Team Coach