Succeeding with Agile

Choosing Your Approach

There are two driving factors in choosing among these three patterns for spreading Scrum: How quickly do we need to spread Scrum to additional teams, and do we have good internal coaches who can assist the new teams? The answers to these questions will be key to helping you choose the pattern that best fits your organization.

In general, consider using split and seed when you are in hurry. The split-and-seed approach can be one of the fastest ways to spread Scrum through an organization. The approach can be accelerated in a couple of different ways: First, you can split teams a bit earlier than might be ideal. Second, you can split teams into more new teams than might be ideal, perhaps four new teams instead of two, even ...