One of the more frequent approaches to "scaling Agile" is a set of development teams doing what they call "Scrum" in a larger project. The overall project management has heard of Agile and has also given its consent to use Scrum, but otherwise is working the same way it has worked for 20 years. After all, managers argue, "Scrum is only a development method." Some consider this approach "disciplined" for whatever reason; others call it "Scrum inside a waterfall." Here's a war story about what can happen in this setting.
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Jens Coldewey is based in Munich, Germany. For more than 10 years, Mr. Coldewey has worked with numerous top 50 large and medium-sized companies to introduce Agile practices and Agile management, specializing in deploying Agile development in large organizations. He is a founding member of the nonprofit AgileAlliance and has served as board member.
Mr. Coldewey is Managing Director of it-agile GmbH, the leading German supplier of Agile support… Read More
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