We have been supporting transformation in Japan through Agile, Scrum, or LeSS. Now, the time has come to share this journey across Asia. LeSS' Yoaké is a platform where countries in Asia with different cultures, values, and challenges come together to share knowledge and experiences for sustainable transformation. Together with sponsors, participants, and partners, let's spread the spirit of LeSS throughout Asia and achieve true corporate transformation.
Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) with his friend and colleague Bas Vodde. He works as an organizational design consultant, introducing LeSS with executive teams for very large and multisite product development (often, HW-SW systems). He also works with product management for highly complex product definitions, and hands-on as an embedded-systems legacy-code C and C++ TDD coach with feature teams, to keep in touch with the real work and workers.
Although one of the very first LeSS trainers and CSTs, he practices and encourages a focus on doing over teaching.
Craig has served as the lead coach of lean software development adoption at Xerox, and serves or has served as a consultant for LeSS and large-scale agile adoptions at BMW (on the autonomous-driving car LeSS adoption), Ericsson, JP Morgan, Cisco-Tandberg, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Alcatel-Lucent, UBS, bwin.party, and Nokia Networks and Siemens Networks, among many other clients. Craig has also served as chief scientist at Valtech, with a division in Bengaluru where together they evolved LeSS for agile offshore development.
Craig holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from beautiful SFU in Vancouver, BC, with research emphasis in artificial intelligence (having very little of his own).
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) framework 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.
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.
The structure consists of getting to know LeSS in "First Day", learning and implementing LeSS in "Training Days", and deepening insights into LeSS on the "Last Day".
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LeSS' Yoaké will host certified training sessions with the aim of providing opportunities to learn and implement LeSS. Having the opportunity to attend training in Japan by Craig and Bas is invaluable. In particular, Craig's training is being held in Japan for the first time, making it an exceptionally rare opportunity. Let's deepen our understanding of LeSS through the training sessions.
When I first established the Scrum community in Japan, there were hardly any environments for learning Scrum. Since then, the learning environment for Scrum has greatly improved within Japan, and numerous case studies have emerged. I have been observing this progress and providing support to the best of my ability.
However, for true implementation of Scrum, it is essential to introduce it not only at the project level but throughout the entire organization. Unfortunately, merely learning Scrum is insufficient for learning and improvement. Moreover, it is problematic that there has been an increase in cases where Scrum is introduced without learning organizational models, disrupting Scrum by assuming the current organizational structure. It is a very regrettable situation.
I was aware of this issue but neglected it. This was because I used to be skeptical about scaling frameworks. The reason for this skepticism was that many frameworks merely focus on "how to do it" without addressing fundamental principles.
So why did I choose LeSS and decide to learn it together? It's because through many conversations with Craig Larman and what I learned in his classes, I understood that the fundamental idea of LeSS is not about scaling but about applying the principles of Scrum throughout the entire organization. This is a very important value.
Because I cherish this value, I decided to convey it in Japan and Asia, and I wanted to learn together with my Japanese and Asian colleagues. That's why I decided to establish a community and conference.
Representative Director Kazumasa Ebata
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Dear esteemed companies who resonate with LeSS' Yoaké we kindly request you to consider becoming sponsors.
LeSS' Morning is a community aimed at supporting learning and networking for Scrum and LeSS practitioners. Led by Kazumasa Ebata and others from Odd-e Japan, the community started its activities in October 2023. Would you like to join LeSS' Morning and learn about LeSS and Scrum with us?
LeSS' Yoaké is operated by the General Incorporated Association LeSS Company Japan, which is an authorized organization of The LeSS Company B.V.
