Scaling Agile Beyond the Team

Agile methods are helping teams deliver software faster and with much higher quality than ever before. Given the success of agile at the team level, many managers are looking to implement these methodologies across the entire product delivery organization. Launching their adoption efforts, these managers discover many obstacles, misconceptions, and myths that can derail their efforts before they even get started. Mike Cottmeyer describes a roadmap for large-scale agile adoption with multiple teams and demonstrates how teams can work together to deliver more complex projects and portfolios. Mike expands beyond the team concept and shows how multi-team capabilities can be organized to optimize value across the enterprise value stream. At each step of the adoption process, Mike demonstrates how to choose the policies, practices, and metrics that create learning and drive sustainable organizational change.