Larger Scale Agile Development

Back in January, we had one team at BusinessWeek practicing agile software development. The team was successful completing iterations, demoing to stakeholders, and releasing product to a growing audience.

We then needed to scale. We added a second team and a third team offshore. We segmented the work so that there was minimal overlap between teams. Things got a little more complicated because we had longer term deadlines and deliverables that needed planning and management. But we managed priority changes and integration issues to get a product out.

I then saw this post Agile Project Management: Lessons Learned at Google that I found on the Agile Software Development topic at Business Exchange that gave me some new ideas on scaling agile. It covers agile release planning, scrum of scrums, and a number of other advanced topics. It's a long video but worth watching if you're a senior technologist managing multiple agile development teams. What surprised me most is that Google practiced these larger scale practices before they establised iterative agile practices. Makes sense for Google given their scale....

Next week, I will be at SIIA's Global Information Industry Summit talking about my experiences moving teams from Waterfall to Agile. I'll share more insights here as I build up the presentation.

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About Isaac Sacolick

Isaac Sacolick is President of StarCIO, a technology leadership company that guides organizations on building digital transformation core competencies. He is the author of Digital Trailblazer and the Amazon bestseller Driving Digital and speaks about agile planning, devops, data science, product management, and other digital transformation best practices. Sacolick is a recognized top social CIO, a digital transformation influencer, and has over 900 articles published at InfoWorld, CIO.com, his blog Social, Agile, and Transformation, and other sites. You can find him sharing new insights @NYIke on Twitter, his Driving Digital Standup YouTube channel, or during the Coffee with Digital Trailblazers.