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7 Key Factors for Scaling Agile in Large Organizations

Agile adoption has grown from a small number of agile teams within an organization to many agile teams, larger teams, and entire organizations themselves, bringing a new set of challenges and complexities. Regardless of the framework, some important factors play a major role in making large-scale agile adoption successful. Here are seven aspects you should consider when scaling agile across an organization.

  1. Executive leadership support
  2. Knowledge acquisition
  3. Engineering excellence
  4. Tools and infrastructure
  5. Communities of practice
  6. Integrating nonsoftware teams
  7. Agile champions and change agents

Read the complete article here: https://www.agileconnection.com/article/7-key-factors-scaling-agile-large-organizations

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How to Deal with Bad Scrum User Stories as a ScrumMaster

It is common in the early stages of Scrum implementation for there to be misunderstandings about what User Stories are for and what makes them useful. A ScrumMaster’s task is to be able to help the Team and Product Owner when they are faced with ineffective User Stories as they go into Sprint Planning.

Read the complete article here: https://agilepainrelief.com/notesfromatooluser/2019/01/deal-with-bad-scrum-user-stories-as-a-scrummaster.html

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Agile Retrospective Smells Cards

During one of nlScrum meetups I heard about The Retrospective Smells Cards. A tool for Scrum masters, agile coaches, and anyone who facilitates agile retrospectives to recognize smells and solve problems or mitigate the impact.

You can find it – and other tools/games – here: https://www.benlinders.com/shop/agile-retrospective-smells-cards/

There are also a couple of interesting articles about smells like: blaming, passiveness and actions. You can find them here: https://www.benlinders.com/portfolio/retrospective-smells/

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The Product Management @Scale game: How can Product Owners scale their role?

Now that many organisations are scaling their agile process one way or the other, Product Owners are faced with the challenge of scaling their already busy role. Kai Stevens created The agile product management @scale game that helps Product Owners identify how to focus on the essential product management activities while making sure that other product management activities will be handed over to other members of their team.

Read about it here: https://medium.com/the-liberators/the-product-management-scale-game-a-simple-way-to-figure-out-what-a-product-owner-should-do-cc143cb85ecd