Succeeding with Agile

One Size Does Not Fit All

In this chapter, I’ve presented a community-driven approach to Scrum adoption. A guiding community—the Enterprise Transition Community—does some of the work of the transition, but most important it creates an environment that encourages other communities to form. These communities—called improvement communities—are formed when a group of employees choose to work together to improve the organization’s use of Scrum. Both types of communitites use Scrum to drive the organization toward becoming agile.

But one size clearly does not fit all. The approach I am describing in this chapter works well when transitioning a medium or large department to Scrum. Scale it down as appropriate. A software department of 20 professionals, ...