Chapter 17
Scaling across Agile Teams
IN THIS CHAPTER
Identifying when and why to scale across multi-team projects
Understanding the basics of scaling
Exploring scaling challenges
Depending on the schedule, scope, and required skills, many small and medium-sized projects can be accomplished with a single scrum team. Larger projects, however, may require more than one scrum team to achieve the product vision and release goals in a reasonable go-to-market time frame. When more than one scrum team is required, the teams need effective inter-team collaboration, communication, and synchronization — they need to be agile at scale. Regardless of project size, if interdependencies exist between multiple teams working together on the same project, or even across a collection of projects, you may need to scale.
Scale only if you have to. Even though you may have the talent and resources available to deploy multiple teams on your project, multiple teams don’t automatically ensure higher quality and faster time to market. Always look for ways to implement the tenth agile principle, “Simplicity ...
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