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I think you get the idea–there are a lot of different scaling Scrum frameworks.  How to effectively scale Scrum from a single team to hundreds is the big question many in the industry are trying to solve.

Scrum is a lightweight framework discovered in the eighties in response to accelerating demands on building new products faster.  Scrum didn’t have a clear way to scale across hundreds of people working on one product.  Now that Scrum has crossed the threshold from being an early adopters software development methodology into being the mainstream way of organizing software teams, large scale enterprises are interested in the question: How to effectively do Scrum with multiple teams?

Today there are more than dozens of scaling Scrum and Agile frameworks.  In this series we’ll look at some of these frameworks to get an understanding of the philosophy behind them and how are they differ. First, we’re starting with the Large Scaled Scrum framework known as LeSS.  In many of these episodes I was able to interview the founders of LeSS, Bas Vodde and Craig Larman.  Why am I starting with LeSS?  As a writer, I realized a natural a sequel to Agile Noir, would be to write another business novel about scaling.  Grande Noir is the working title.  So I started doing research through talking to other IT consultants I knew and tried to find out what frameworks they were using and what frameworks made them happy.  Although LeSS isn’t the most popular scaling framework, the people behind LeSS convinced me that LeSS solved a lot more of the problems that companies face when undertaking scaling Agile.  Other scaling frameworks, such as the well known SAFe, tended to proscribe additional layers of management or process.

Next Episode, we’ll travel to sunny California’s Bay Area and to talk with Bas Vodde about “Why do people want scaling?”

<beep>If you’re listening to this in 2018 and it’s not yet April, Craig Larman is teaching a LeSS class this April 16th in Seattle, and I’ll be attended to further soak in more ideas to use in writing Noir Grande.  So if you attend, be sure to say “hi.”  If you have something you’d like to share with the listening audience of Agile Thoughts, we’ll make some arrangements as I’ll be bringing recording equipment.  For more information about LeSS and more timely information about LeSS trainings, courses, and events, surf over to http://LeSS.works.  They’ve got events happening all around the globe.