Course - Scaling Lean and Agile Development

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Full Title

Scaling Lean & Agile Development for Large, Multisite & Offshore Products with Large-Scale Scrum


Overview

1-2 days

Reflecting my work over recent years, my next book (published 2008) will be on scaling lean and agile development with Large-Scale Scrum. I am writing it with my co-author Bas Vodde, who has long and in-depth experience with very large agile product development and enterprise transformations (at Nokia Networks and NSN).

See table of contents.

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Practices for scaling lean and agile dev - cover.jpg

This new course reflects our focus since 2002 on leading relatively large products (e.g., 600 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.

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


Objectives

  • Organize the Product Backlog for scaling
  • Organize team structure for scaling
  • Facilitate and coach Large-Scale Scrum events
  • Facilitate multisite and offshore agile development


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

35


Environment - Room, Tools, Texts

Read this: Course Environment - Workshop Style1


Text and Notes

  • 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.