In the good old days we used to experiment and do what felt good. One Scrum team, that's a good time but we eventually need a little more excitement. We add a couple more teams and it gets interesting enough to have an occasional Scrum-of-Scrums. When a few more teams come along, well... now you've got a party (aka joint Release Planning)! Then at some point, we jumped from there to a robust framework with lots of prescribed roles and rules that is unwieldy for most organizations outside the Fortune 500. The overhead of SAFe for a typical mid-size company is too much to bear, yet teams and management are at a loss for a lighter scaling method to coordinate their handfuls of teams.
Together we will examine several alternative scaling methods and examples applicable to mid-size firms where SAFe is likely to be over burdensome. Participants will take away a set of usable methods, as well as ideas for further investigation and experimentation in scaling teams in an agile context.
It’s gonna be a party, just like the good old days... before we had to be SAFe in order to scale.
