Gavin Deadman
LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) is an agile framework for 3-8 Scrum teams, but when there’s more than 8 Scrum teams it’s time to think about adopting LeSS Huge. So let’s look at the differences.
LeSS
LeSS is a scaled up version of one-team Scrum, and it maintains many of the practices and ideas of one-team Scrum. In LeSS, you will find:
- One Product Backlog
- One Definition of Done
- One Definition of Ready
- One Product Manager
- Many complete, cross-functional teams
- One Sprint
- One Product Vision
- One Sprint Review
- An Overall Backlog session
- An Overall Retrospective
In LeSS all Teams are in a common sprint to deliver a common shippable product, every sprint.
LeSS Huge
What’s the same as the smaller LeSS Framework:
- One (overall) Product Backlog
- One Definition of Done
- One Definition of Ready
- One (overall) Senior/Lead Product Manager
- One Sprint
So what’s Different?
- Area Product Managers
- Area Product Backlogs
- Area Product Vision
- Set of parallel meetings per Area
It’s important to remember that these frameworks are just guides and every business has their own org structure, so it’s completely acceptable to mould a framework to suit the organisational structure and industry sector.
