Course - Scaling Lean and Agile Development

Full Title

Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development: Successful Large, Multisite & Offshore Product Development with Large-Scale Scrum

Overview

1-2 days

See table of contents.

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This course reflects our focus on consulting at coaching at relatively large products (e.g., 2000 people on one product) and relatively large enterprise transformations (e.g., 50,000 people) to adopting agile and lean principles, and scaling Scrum to this size. It also reflects our experience with large-scale multisite development in China, India, Brazil, Europe, and the USA, among other countries

This workshop covers the key concepts and practices that we've learned work for Large-Scale Scrum and agile adoption.

Methods of Education

Discussion, presentation, Q&A, workshop exercises

Audience

Anyone interested in scaling -- managers, developers, technical leads, product management

Level

Introductory-Intermediate

Prerequisites

Students must read, before the course: The Scrum Primer

Outline

Large-Scale Thinking Tools and Action Tools
Continuous product development
Scaling with requirement areas
Feature vs component teams
Hierarchical continuous integration
Tracking
Large-scale estimation, release planning and scheduling
Enterprise-level policies and reward systems that support agility
Large-scale budgeting
Scaling the Product Backlog
Multi-level Sprint planning
Joint and multisite Sprint reviews
Joint and multisite Sprint retrospectives
Scaling the requirements workshops
Scaling the design workshops
Scaling lean design
Coordinating team-of-team large project development up to 2,000 people
Leading enterprise change initiatives to adopt agile and lean principles
Agile documentation in large products
Agile offshoring
Multisite and agile development
Dispersed teams
Contracts

Maximum Participants

50

Environment - Room, Tools, Texts

Read this: Course Environment - Workshop Style1

Text and Notes

Students must read, before the course: The Scrum Primer

There is a course PDF for the presentations. We may decide to give the students a file copy to view on a laptop or a paper copy, depending on situation.