What is Scaling in Agile?
Agile is a set of values and principles. Agile is an umbrella term for a group of iterative product development frameworks. The Agile approaches such as Scrum framework, DSDM, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP) provide rules, practices, and guidelines to build products and solutions using the Agile values and principles.
Product development evolves through the collaborative effort of self-organizing and cross-functional teams and their customers and end-users with these frameworks.
It encourages adaptive planning, exploratory development, fast delivery, and continuous improvement. Rapid and flexible response to change is at the heart of the system.
Most organizations started their Agile journey with one of the frameworks mentioned above, and Scrum is the most popular one. Scrum is lightweight and simple to understand.
Moreover, it provides some immutable principles & guidelines. Therefore, it is suitable for small self-managed teams.
When more and more organizations and teams adopted Agile, it required scaling in a big way. The entire organization had to be in the process, not just a few self-managed teams.
Initially focusing strictly on empowering teams to develop products and solutions faster and more efficiently, the tremendous success in doing business this way led to large enterprise-level organizations scaling the practice to meet their needs, even extending beyond the product organization.
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