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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.

Posted on Monday, April 28, 2008 under agile

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Comment by Ketil Jensen

May 5, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

Thank you, Manish and Thomas, for a very good and inspiring presentation and the following Open Space session. I really gained some insight in how and why agile methodologies should be used in distributed projects. Hope to meet you again at some point.

-Ketil

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