Pragmatic scaling beyond frameworks

While the major agile scaling frameworks share many details, they have also some important differences in their philosophical basis and their approaches.For a potential user, the comparison does not become easier through the business interest and the rivalry of the framework protagonists.

We want to contribute a view on scaling agile which starts from the need, not from a specific solution. Different context, skills and experience in the organization demands a different solution, be it a decision for one of the frameworks or a best-of breed approach.

Audience

Agenda

• Why would we scale – and why and how would we avoid scaling
• Agile essentials remain valid and have an even more important role, like: Value stream, small and stable teams, iterations and takt
• What is new – which additional concepts are included in a scaled agile implementation
• Scope and role of the methods/frameworks
• Overview of LeSS, SAFe, ESP, (and others like Scrum@Scale, Nexus), their Big Pictures, origins and use cases
• Guiding Questions for analyzing the frameworks to develop a conceptual / system view on scaled agile

• Scope
• Delivery Models and underlying design principles
• Structures and vocabulary like: value creation, measuring value, roles and meetings overview
• Contribution to key concerns and capabilities in the organization
• Agile values and principles: implementation in the context of the frameworks
• Decision support: limits, pitfalls, success conditions. Method implementation or best-of-breed-approach

• Key practices and exercises, like: Big room planning workshop, Designing teams

• Organizational development
• Leadership
• Portfolio and agile business
• Agile Change and Agile Evolution