Topic: “What All It Takes to Scale Agile?“
Scrum and XP have been designed to work well for small teams. That works fabulously for small organizations. However implementing the same for large project portfolios, having teams with 100+ developers has remained very challenging from Scrum only perspective.
There are many challenges while working with large teams, e.g. – how to break silos in large organizations, stories focused on changes in enterprise architecture, ability to work on highest business value features for program portfolio instead of for a project, eliminate waste and reduce cycle time for the whole value chain.
They all can be mitigated through applying Lean principles and also by implementing Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) http://scaledagileframework.com/. That’s the focus of the session with references from Spotify Scaling Study, SAFe and personal experiences.