When attempting to get many teams to work effectively together in an Agile world, we need some coordination model. This is typically referred to as Scaling. Be careful, many approaches do this by adding more layers, additional ceremonies, and handoffs. All of this takes the teams further away from delivering value to the customer.
Resource Links:
- 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Scale Agility
- Decoupled alignment
- Enterprise Scrum Introduction
- Examples Showing How You Can Scale Scrum
- A holistic approach to scaling agile at Salesforce
- How to Run HUGE Retrospectives Across Dozens of Teams in Multiple Time Zones
- Hyper-Growth Done Right – Lessons From the Man Who Scaled Engineering at Dropbox and Facebook
- Large-Scale Agile: Where Do You Want Your Complexity?
- LeSS SAFe comparison
- ING improves on the so-called Spotify Model using LeSS
- Manifesto for Scaling Agility
- Microsoft’s 16 Keys To Being Agile At Scale
- Q&A with David Mole and Sandy Mamoli of Trade Me on Migrating to Spotify’s Squad Model
- Readings for Managers Thinking About Scaling
- Running big retrospectives at Spotify
- Scaling Agile @ Spotify with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds
- Scaling Agile without Frameworks at Ultimate Software
- Scaling Agility or Bureaucracy
- Stop Scaling, Start Growing an Agile Organization
- Surprise: Microsoft Is Agile
- The top 3 points you should have paid attention to in the Spotify Engineering Culture videos
- Vertical Slices and Scale
FORMING TEAMS
SCALING AND LARGE TEAMS BOOKS
- Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Thinking and Organizational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum – Craig Larman, Bas Vodde [AMAZON]
- Large-Scale Scrum: More with Less – Craig Larman, Bas Vodde [AMAZON]
- Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Large, Multisite, and Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum – Craig Larman, Bas Vodde [AMAZON]
See Also:
Large Scale Scrum (LeSS)
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Mark Levison has been helping Scrum teams and organizations with Agile, Scrum and Kanban style approaches since 2001. From certified scrum master training to custom Agile courses, he has helped well over 8,000 individuals, earning him respect and top rated reviews as one of the pioneers within the industry, as well as a raft of certifications from the ScrumAlliance. Mark has been a speaker at various Agile Conferences for more than 20 years, and is a published Scrum author with eBooks as well as articles on InfoQ.com, ScrumAlliance.org an AgileAlliance.org.
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