What does it mean by scaling Agile? Is it just applying scrum principles to a large team or simply adopting an industry available scaling framework? Find out how to make Agile at Scale work for you!

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Five Dimensions On Scaling Agile

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Curious case of Scaling Agile
Earlier Now
• Customer is the king of modern businesses
• Digital technology, a savior against raising demand for quicker delivery has lead to the
adoption of the Agile way of working
• Small teams have been successful in adopting Agile and satisfying customer needs
• For larger enterprises integrating complex processes and systems makes scaling a critical
task
‘A’ for Apple

3. Growing your Business by Scaling Agile Up !
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Scaling is different from multiplying
It is adoption across geographically distributed teams
involving complex domains and technologies
Usually, enterprises scale wide with multiple teams
executing “fixed-scope approved projects” in agile
Scale Up to realize the true ability of Agile
Is scaling same
as multiplying
?? Scale Up or
Wide ??

4. What is Scaling Up ?
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SCALE
UP
Demand management
Avoiding upfront planning of projects based
on projections which may become invalid on
longer time
Capacity Planning and management
• Work is pulled from teams and not the
vice versa
• Focus is on outcome and not the
utilization
Budgeting
Budget based on requirement and not with a fixed scope and schedule
Governance
• Aim is to build right things rather
than building things right
• This is through project tracking
against the evolving requirements
Planning
Project execution is in agile way such that the solution
is built incrementally through inspect and adapt

5. 5 Dimensions of Scaling
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As enterprises embark on their scaling journey, scaling should be factored across five different dimensions
5D
Scaling
1 2
3
4
5
Teams Backlogs
Time BoxQuality
DevOps

6. Dimension 1: Teams
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Cross functional teams delivering high quality deliverables to be formed
Empower teams to do everything in their power to deliver best quality
Provide collaboration tools to foster synchronization of distributed team
Vision and Objectives need to be communicated in crystal clear fashion
Structuring and Aligning Teams to a Common Objective
Stable Agile Team with predictable capacity
Stable Team of Teams with predictable capacity, organized
around key IT enabled business capability (Product)
Multiple stable Team of Teams with predictable
capacity, organized around key IT enabled
business capability within a portfolio

7. Dimension 2: Backlogs
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Requirements from business is ever changing
and priority here is to satisfy the customer
Value based prioritization of requirements
To identify value, requirements are handled
as prioritized backlog at multiple levels
Collaborating teams should identify firstly
dependencies, collaborate and plan together
Bridges Large Business Needs to Deliverables , ensuring High Value Delivered!!

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A time-box is a unit of time for an activity
Attention is required as teams become certain and delivery becomes predictable on delivery
At portfolio level, initiatives can be planned in Quarterly or Monthly time-boxes
Time-Box gives team the flexibility to evaluate the progress and the intended value
Time-box the delivery , hard-stop , measure value , analyze performance against objectives and take informed decisions
Dimension 3: Time-Box

9. Dimension 4: DevOps Principle
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Pipeline
Visualization help
teams understand
progress, quality
and analyze the
points of failure
A break down in
any of the
environments can
be easily identified
and addressed
faster
Automating and
orchestrating of
various activities
becomes important
This necessitate
continuous
integration and
deployment of
code base
Integration of
multiple teams
and process is
tedious large
enterprises
Develop on Cadence. Release on Demand

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In a large missions even a minor defect missed will have a major business impact
Teams perform all the required checks within the iteration it self and with a system
demo to the customer
To optimize the testing effort, the whole process needs to be automated
Automation guarantees rigor in quality throughout the lifecycle
Dimension 5: Quality
Software and systems be built on strong foundation, ensuring system robustness
and adaptability
Robust
Perceptive
Iterative
Automation
Rigor

11. Way Ahead
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There are several scaling
frameworks available
Doesn’t matter if you follow a defined
framework or homegrown methodologies
What matters is that you choose the
right framework that suits the best
Check out the video on Five Dimensions of Scaling Agile @
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ET-0i02Q_4
To know more about powerful agile frameworks visit our blog
Five Powerful Agile Frameworks

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