Scaling Fundamentals
• Product vision’s critical contribution to scaling
• Infrastructure and tools sets for scaling
• Project focus and multi-tasking – how to manage for scaling
• Patterns of scaled work distribution
Agile Scaling Principles
• Defining clear decision lines
• Creating collaboration
• Delivering customer facing value consistently
• Maintaining feedback loops
• Maintaining quality
Scrum as a Building Block for Scaling
• Three roles
• Three artifacts
• Four meetings
• Two levels of commitment
Lean Scaling Principles
• Limiting waste
• Early defect detection
• Acknowledging variation
Kanban
• Setting up a pull system
• Creating a work queue
• Setting work in process limits
• Defining classes of service
• Calculating flow time
Technology and Scaling
• Traditional scaling tools
• Web 2.0 support for scaling
• Using instant messaging effectively
• Leveraging shared workspaces
• Electronic meetings—making them efficient and effective
• Configuration management techniques for scaled environments
• Build challenges in scaled environments
Architecture’s Role in Scaling
• Using common architecture successfully
• Conway’s law
• Architecting for features vs. components
• Planning to allow the architecture to emerge
• Test-driven architecture
• Handling work in Scrum that does not create user-visible value
• Addressing work that spans multiple iterations
Team Coordination
• Planning for time together
• Aligning plans and processes
• Creating convergence points
• Defining clear roles and responsibilities
• Building and using common infrastructure
• Approach to demos and retrospectives in scaled projects
Overcoming Geography
• Working with language differences
• Working with cultural differences
• Working with time differences
• Establishing “presence” in distributed teams
• Ins and outs of using liaisons
• How to handle travel
• Creating points where value is delivered
Achieving Quality
• Defining “done” consistently
• Building communities of interest
• Lessons learned with Scrum of Scrums
• Team-level testing
• Release-level testing
• Working with non-functional requirements
• Coding standards
Release Roadmaps
• Process for creating release roadmaps
• Key inputs into release roadmaps
• Getting to the right level of detail
• Delivering customer value vs. better architectural components
• The Release train metaphor
Backlogs and Scaling
• Focus on one primary backlog
• Role of chief product owner
• Product owner councils
• Product backlogs vs. team backlogs
• Allocation of functionality to backlog(s)
• Area product owners
