{"id":26597,"date":"2024-10-29T14:04:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T06:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekipa.co\/?post_type=insights_articles&p=26597"},"modified":"2024-10-29T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T06:04:15","slug":"small-scale-results-to-large-scale-success-with-large-scale-scrum-less","status":"publish","type":"insights_articles","link":"https:\/\/ekipa.co\/en-id\/insights\/articles\/small-scale-results-to-large-scale-success-with-large-scale-scrum-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Can We go From Small-Scale Results to Large-Scale Success? Yes, with Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As organisations grow, the complexity of managing multiple teams often leads to inefficiencies and a loss of agility. The challenge then becomes: can we scale what works so naturally in small-scale development across larger organisations?<\/span><\/p>\n

This question has driven Craig Larman and Bas Vodde<\/a>\u2014the creators of Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)\u2014for over a decade, as they sought to apply Scrum principles to larger organisations in a more streamlined and effective way.<\/span><\/p>\n

LeSS is an agile framework designed for scaling Scrum across multiple teams working on a single product. Unlike other scaling frameworks that introduce complex layers, LeSS focuses on simplicity, transparency, and delivering customer value. While Scrum typically works for small teams (3-9 people), LeSS extends the core principles of Scrum to large, complex environments, sometimes involving hundreds or even thousands of people.<\/span><\/p>\n

The key difference is that LeSS maintains Scrum\u2019s simplicity\u2014focusing on minimising complexity\u2014by preserving its structure and roles, while enabling multiple teams to collaborate effectively on large-scale projects.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) Framework?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Craig Larman and Bas Vodde developed LeSS to address the challenges of applying Scrum principles to larger organisations. Unlike other scaling frameworks that introduce complex layers, LeSS retains Scrum\u2019s simplicity while enabling large-scale collaboration. Its design is focused on minimising organisational complexity, staying true to Scrum\u2019s core, and delivering customer value.<\/span><\/p>\n

The framework is defined in a set of rules on org structure, product and the Sprint, as a guidance on how to apply Scrum at a large and even huge scale, for a product that requires more than 8 teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong> Applying an agile mindset and ways of working to improve your Personal Agility<\/a><\/p>\n

What are the Key Principles of LeSS?<\/b><\/h2>\n

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At its core, LeSS emphasises 10 key principles, with the goal of providing the basis for making decisions on how to best apply the LeSS rules. Here are 4 examples of these principles:<\/span><\/p>\n