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Category Archives: scaling
The Team sucks, the Backlog sucks, the Done Done sucks! I know! Let’s scale that!
I just led a discussion with Agile Charleston on this topic. The idea for this topic comes from a talk by Mike Cottmeyer at the Scrum Gathering in Orlando. I agreed with Mike that these three are three of the most common problems with teams, and they are fundamental. (One might argue that X is […]
Scrum at Scale – 4 parts
Jeff Sutherland has recently done a great job in describing his ideas on scaling. Here are three things I think are key: Scale down. That is, it is complex to get lots of people involved in one problem or effort. Simplify. Use patterns. (E.x. Do not try to implement all of some big poster on scaling […]
Proposal: Scaling Workshop
This is the first in a series on new ideas to make your practice of Agile more successful. Do a scaling workshop The idea is a 2 day workshop with the right people in your company, focused on the scaling topic. First, scaling can mean many different things, and in the workshop we like to […]
Teams are More Important than Scaling
This is another take-away from the Southern Fried Agile last fall. Teams are more important than scaling. I am hearing a lot of talk about scaling. Definitely a useful and important topic for some. Also, I am deeply concerned that we are missing a key point. Many people are. In general, we have not learned […]
Scaling Workshop – New thoughts
David Muldoon and I just had a new Scaling workshop in Montreal. Two days talking about scaling, and solving problems. One quick observation Scaling is ugly. That is, scaling is always a compromise. We talked about the ideal state; what would we ideally want things to be like. One way of expressing part of that: […]
Scaling Whitepaper
We have started a scaling whitepaper. It will go through many iterations. Now version 5. Getting Starting with ScalingVer5 Please comment on how you think this paper should evolve, and which key questions this paper should address. Thanks.
The Scaling Dilemma
Some very useful comments about scaling by Mary Poppendieck. http://www.leanessays.com/2014/02/the-scaling-dilemma.html
Learning from the Toronto Scaling Workshop
Last week we had a Scaling with Agile Workshop in Toronto. More and more I am convinced this scaling workshop is necessary for many people to apply Scrum well, in their business model. They need to work through how to make it work in their context. And many of the issues in ‘making it work’ have […]
Scaling Workshop Montreal
I am really excited about the Scaling Workshop Dave Muldoon and I just led in Montreal. Dave had mentioned this before, but it struck me how each person’s problems are different. And, even if they are somewhat similar, they need to be prioritized differently. We had some discussion of ScrumPLOP.org. We discussed some patterns for […]
New Scaling Workshop
We have added a 1 day workshop to many of our courses. Dave Muldoon and I will do the Workshop. Dave has years of experience scaling in a large multinational corporation, and with other large organizations. What is it: The workshop reviews quickly the several approaches to scaling in the community now: SAFe, LeSS, DAD, […]