Agile Teams at Scale: Beyond Scrum of Scrums

Agile methods depend on effective cross-functional teams. We’ve heard many Agile success stories…at the team level. But what happens when a product can’t be delivered by one team?  What do you do when the “team” that’s needed to work on a particular product is 20 people?  Or 20 teams?

There are no simple answers. But there are design principles for defining workable arrangements when the product is bigger than a handful of agile teams.

Some principles and practices to guide scaling Agile teams.

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1. Insights You Can Use » Blog Archive » Agile Teams at Scale: Beyond Scrum of Scrums | Ninsky says:

   December 28, 2011 at 5:38 pm

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2. Rod Claar says:

   December 29, 2011 at 10:12 am

   Nice Esther!
   I find that there is often a need for an architecture/technology group that works to prioritize enterprise needs while minimizing the duplication of system capablities.

   Rod Claar, CST
   http://EffectiveAgileDev.com

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3. Scaling Agile « Best of Agile says:

   January 4, 2012 at 9:26 am

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4. Cesario Ramos says:

   January 13, 2012 at 9:24 am

   Interesting topic!

   I wrote a pattern on this topic called Integration Scrum. You can read it at http://cesarioramos.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/integration-scrum/

   Cesario, PST

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5. Florin says:

   January 13, 2012 at 12:45 pm

   Great ideas – I have 2 questions:
   1. Do you see any of the integrating team members, component shepherds and tech councils being full time roles or they belong to a context feature team and act on these other roles only part of their time?
   2. How do you se the tech councils operate?

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6. 专家建议：以特性团队扩展敏捷项目 | chainding says:

   January 25, 2012 at 9:15 pm

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   January 21, 2013 at 1:53 am

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