Scaling Agile in Norway
Our friend Lars invited us to Oslo this weekend to run a session for Miles on “Scaling Agile”. It is generally accepted now that agile methods work very well in these sorts of circumstances:
- Small project
- Co-located team
- On-site customer
- T&M or internally funded
- Greenfield systems development
Unfortunately, we rarely get to work on projects like that! Most of our projects are more like this:
- Big project
- Distributed project
- Multiple projects in the same company
- Off-site customer
- Fixed price contract
- Product Development
The point of the talk was to discuss the challenges involved in scaling agile to work on these sorts of projects. The guys were mostly interested in distributed and fixed-price projects, so we focussed on that. Afterwards, I ran an Open Space session where the discussion centred around agile enterprise adoption, integration projects and tools. Miles are a really talented and enthusiastic group of people, so spending a weekend with them was a lot of fun. Thanks guys!
We’ll probably work on our session a bit and run it at a conference later in the year.
