Large-Scale Agile

Despite that we are still yet to finish the current scope of work for the Agile Initiatives, we are starting to discuss future items in our backlog – distributed Agile and Agile@Scale.

There are a few projects in flight that couple of colleagues are working on that are large Agile programs of work.  Large-Scale Agile by James Shore provides an insightful and thoughtful approach.

On a past project we used a similar technique mentioned in James Shore’s post to Using Bounded Contexts to Minimize Dependencies and Using Kanban to Manage Cross-Team Workflow. Though we didn’t use Kanban specifically, the outcome of the approach was similar – when the Team A is ready to work on something new, they took the next item off of the backlog, work on it until it’s done, and then delivered it to Team B that requested it.  Where this feature is prioritized in Team A’s backlog is dependent on when Team B needed it.