Resources on Scaling Agile frameworks like the Scaling Agile Framework (SAFe), LESS, Nexus, Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), Scrums of Scrums, etc.
Balancing Agility and Discipline is a book written in 2004 by Barry Boehm and Richard Turner. The fact that it is already on its 6th reprint tells something about its value. This is a very pragmatic book that tries to put in perspective agile and plan-driven software development approaches.
The problem with retrospectives is that the learnings identified often remain locally. And scaling agile seems to be the default answer. Let’s focus more on scaling improvement.
Bas Vodde demystifies what it really takes to adopt Large Scale Scrum (LeSS). Rather than a quick “flip,” Bas Vodde explains four main phases that most organizations experience: education, pre-LeSS planning, the flip, and post-change improvements.
Large transformation programs are the need of the hour given the massive amount of digital transformations that are undertaken by organizations. Be it moving away from on-premises systems to cloud or building data lakes or analytics programs or transforming business processes through an industry standard SaaS solution, it often turns out to be a multi-year, multivendor program with enormous amounts of dependencies.
This presentation discusses how to do portfolio planning and prioritization at scale based on experiences within one of the largest banks in The Netherlands. It presents practices that have been developed, shows examples and explains how to plan for short term (< 3 months) and longer term.
I had already very much like the first book written by the same authors “Scaling Lean & Agile Development – Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum” published in 2009. The risk when you have high expectations is being disappointed. It wasn’t the case with “Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development”.
Having scaled a number of Agile teams at different speeds, this presentation will walk you through some of the inflection points you will experience, how to navigate them, and reflect on all the things the presenter wishes she had known just a little bit earlier.
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