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Q&A on the Book Agile Enterprise

In the book Agile Enterprise, Mario Moreira explores the end-to-end and top-to-bottom view needed to run an effective agile enterprise, focusing on the needs of customers and employees. He explains how cutting-edge and innovative concepts and practices can be incorporated into a robust agile and customer value-driven framework.

Ben Linders
on Jun 10, 2017
Culture & Methods

Culture May Eat Agile for Breakfast

Making culture your priority during the scaling phase of your organization is a sound business decision. You have to invest by hiring for mindset and educating everyone joining the organization in agile principles to prevent turning an existing agile culture into a traditional one.

Stefan Wolpers
on May 05, 2017
Culture & Methods

Agile Scaling in Action

The biggest reason for adopting agile at scale is that despite the fantasy that a collection of agile teams will somehow organically integrate to deploy a program, that is not the reality. That’s why for larger dev/test outfits or projects, companies sometimes roll up individual agile teams into one agile environment at enterprise scale. Yousef Awad presents lessons learned and words to the wise.

Yousef Awad
on Mar 20, 2017
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

The book More with LeSS by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde provides practices to create simpler and more flexible organizations, applying Scrum with many teams working on one product. More with LeSS is the third book on LeSS (see books on LeSS); it’s the most concrete and fundamental book to start learning about LeSS. The book also contains insights on experiences with LeSS adoptions.

Ben Linders
on Mar 04, 2017
Culture & Methods

Doing Scrum with Multiple Teams: Comparing Scaling Frameworks

Many companies have successfully scaled Agile, and by nature they have done it differently. To speed up your implementation there are several frameworks that can work as a staring point; LeSS, SAFe, and Scrum@Scale. In this article we help you choose by giving you a short description and exploring their similarities and differences.

Jan Grape Tomas Björkholm Hans Brattberg
on Feb 24, 2017
DevOps

Q&A on Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise

The book Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise by Gary Gruver provides a DevOps based approach for continuously improving development and delivery processes in large organizations. It contains suggestions that can be used to optimize the deployment pipeline, release code frequently, and deliver to customers.

Ben Linders
on Jan 12, 2017
Culture & Methods

Ultimate Kanban: Scaling Agile without Frameworks at Ultimate Software

Ultimate Software settled on Kanban as its scaled methodology which went hand-in-hand with the company’s culture of autonomy. Teams define their own process and apply policies specific to their own context. Through the innovative use of flow practices and principles, Ultimate has been able to achieve many of the benefits of a Lean-Agile implementation without the use of a heavyweight framework.

Prateek Singh Steve Reid Daniel S. Vacanti
on Nov 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

Growing Agile… Not Scaling!

What makes an agile team successful is not the “process” nor the “tools” but rather the way people develop an effective level of interaction with each other. Growing agile means both focusing on culture, and on co-evolution of practices and tools.

Dhaval Panchal Andrea Tomasini
on Jul 27, 2016
Culture & Methods

Unfreezing an Organization

Ahmad Fahmy provides an authentic retrospective of a large scale agile transformation at a large bank, looking at what worked, what didn't and lessons which can be applied at other organizations facing similar challenges.

Ahmad Fahmy
on Apr 30, 2016
Culture & Methods

Large Scaled-Scrum Development Does Work!

Agile Scrum development as such is nothing new and extraordinary. But when putting up to 100 professionals from all related development and product areas in the same boat to develop a product … then it becomes a challenge. This article explores how the Ericsson ICT Development Center Eurolab in Aachen has tackled this with the help of Kaizen and other adjustments to Agile practices.

Norma Acevedo Lopez Almudena Rodriguez Pardo
on Feb 06, 2016
Culture & Methods

Self Leadership for Agility

Christopher Avery will give a talk about leading yourself at the Scaling Agile for the Enterprise congress. InfoQ interviewed him about applying self leadership with the responsibility process, his view on self-organizing teams, the role for leadership in agile, and how top leadership differs in a small organization with only a few agile teams and in large organizations with many agile teams.

Ben Linders
on Feb 02, 2016
Culture & Methods

Why Agile Fails in Large Enterprises

Agile software development has proven to be a major benefit to various teams, but it can affect businesses differently depending on their size and how they integrate the methodology into their operations. Some of the challenges are particular to large organisations, this article provides advice on how to avoid the pitfalls.

Sanjay Zalavadia
on Dec 01, 2015