This lengthy article from the pens of Cesario Ramos and Kurt Bittner adresses the trouble many companies face when trying to sclae their agility. Even organizations who have agile success in isolated pockets have trouble scaling that agility to the broader organization. The challenges express themselves in familiar patterns.
You can’t scale agility by copying others. You have to learn for yourself what process, structure and policies work in your specific context.
The similarities they describe:
- Your copy of another organization’s model doesn’t work
- Your organization’s design conflicts with the goal of agility
- You are trying to “copy and paste” what works for one team to all teams
- You are independently optimizing different parts of the organization
- You are under-invested in agile engineering practices
They then dive in differences between different scaling frameworks reflect deep philosophical differences on the primary challenges in scaling agility. They comapre SAFe, LeSS, and Nexus.
To learn about conclusion follow the link to original article. Nice one!
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