Succeeding with Agile

Reasons to Prefer Grow and Split

The grow-and-split pattern spreads Scrum a bit more slowly than does the split-and-seed approach but comes with some key advantages.

• You don’t have to destroy any existing teams. The primary problem with the split-and-seed strategy is that teams who are just starting to jell and get a handle on Scrum are demolished to form the basis of new teams. Breaking up a good team is always something that should be done with caution. Growing the team before splitting it overcomes this shortcoming because the team is kept together until it is large enough to form two complete teams, each with agile experience.

• Team members feel more continuity from sprint to sprint. When using the split-and-seed pattern, teams are constantly ...