One of the things about Agile that has intrigued me for years is how does it scale up to a
truly enterprise scale. It is therefore, really interesting to see how main
players in in the industry like Microsoft are using and reaping the benefits of
Agile for its mainline products. I found the following video of Dean Leffingwelll explaining scaling Agile project as very insightful. The video is about an hour long but it's
well worth it in my opinion.
One of the key
points from the talk is that how Agile needs to be implemented top down and how
the top-management needs to "have their bacon" in the Agile projects
as well. Over the last few years, I have had the privilege of working in some
really good Agile projects where Agile makes catering changing priorities
rather easy. But, I have seen the dark side where using Agile methodologies
resulted in mayhem and a series of partially completed deliverables.
Using Agile doesn't
mean that the "destination" is not known. A programme / project would
still need a business case (why), specification (stories in Agile) and an
acceptance criteria.
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