Scaling Agile
What is the right time to consider scaling agile? You should consider exploring scaling if the work cannot be done by just one team in isolation. When there are multiple teams collaborating together to achieve the same goal, with distinct focus areas but there are common dependencies including skills or you have to ship the effective integrated outcome incrementally and continuously. In short, scaling should be considered once you move beyond the team-level process improvement. Scaling agile could also be referred to as bringing a common mindset of embracing change at all levels of the organization where all functions work together with a shared goal to succeed driven by shared virtues like client centricity, execution certainty. Today there are various available approaches like Scaling Agile @ Spotify, SAFe, LeSS, LeSS Huge, Nexus, Scrum of Scrums, Scrum at Scale, DAD to name a few. Each offers a wide variety of frameworks that offer to scale ranging from ‘couple of teams working tog...
