Why Agile Doesn't Scale & What You Can Do About It
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Claim: Agile as practiced at team level fails to scale across large programmes. Evidence: multiple large efforts with many teams and 50 director-level stakeholders create misaligned decisions, procurement and funding stalls, and reporting mismatches; one example shows four comparable projects where one delivers and three fail. Causes: lack of governance, delivery assurance and portfolio management. Fixes: enforce contextual consistency via a clear vision, guiding principles and an accountable decision framework so local agile practices (TDD, pairing, short iterations) can compose across the program.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 3:53What do we mean by Scale?
- 13:36Once upon a time...
- 28:19The Journey of Change
- 33:09What do we mean by Governance?
- 34:59What happens in Execution?
- 39:41what happens in Governance?
- 47:28Some of my Guiding Principles
- 48:46Wrapping up
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