Organizing at Scale: A Basic Scrum Framework for Enterprise Teams

Recently, I was working with a smaller, but distributed, team that was trying to establish a basic framework for working together in a lightweight, Big Picture, enterprise pattern. We were rolling out a basic scrum practice for the individual teams, but one that lends itself to scaling well into enterprise release planning, and is also [...]

Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 3

As the title indicates, in the last two posts (Part 1 and Part 2 – and also be sure and check the comments from others) I’ve described the conundrum of organizing agile teams at scale, and said I’d provide some additional input from others along with some recommendations.
Should the Agile Enterprise Lean to the Feature [...]

Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 2

In my last post, I reintroduced this topic, describing the conundrum of organizing large number of agile teams to better address value delivery for new end user features and services. I described two basic approaches, feature teams and component teams, and some arguments for each.
I’m still waiting for some feedback from a couple of others [...]

Organizing at Scale: Feature Teams vs. Component Teams – Part 1

While continuing my work with a number of larger enterprises facing the cultural change, new practice adoption and organizational challenges of a large scale agile transformation, the topic has again come up as to how to organize large numbers of agile teams to effectively implement agile and optimize value stream delivery.
For the smaller software enterprise, [...]

Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model Published at Modern Analyst

The latest version of the Lean and Scalable Requirements Information Model for the Agile Enterprise is now published in the July ejournal of the ModernAnalyst.com. For those of you interested in trends in requirements practices, this is a good source for all things requirements and business analyst related, agile or not.
With respect to agile development, [...]

Ten Suggested Practices for Applying Agile/Lean Software Management Principles to Other Knowledge Work

Introduction
Recently, I’ve been asked to help some teams apply lean/agile/Scrum/XP-like project management practices to non-software development knowledge work.
These organizations have seen agile methods produce huge benefits in visibility, productivity, quality, empowerment and motivation in their software teams. They naturally want to understand whether these techniques can be effective in other knowledge work activities such as [...]