It’s OK to be UnSAFe – Scale Without Using Someone Else’s Framework
When scaling, many organizations attempt to adopt a framework "from the industry." This often leads to pain and frustration. Instead, scale your agility by embracing your company’s context instead of installing someone else’s framework!
Companies choose a framework like SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, or Spotify not because it’s the BEST for their company, they do it because it’s the SAFE choice (pun intended). This session shares key principles to scaling agile delivery blindly following someone else’s recipe.
First, we explore reasons that organizations select an existing scaling framework. Next, I will share compelling reasons to look outside those established frameworks. Lastly, I will share six principles to embrace when scaling within your own company’s context. You will learn about clarifying the vision, establishing goals, aligning strategy to execution, evolving team structure, creating transparency, and establishing coherence across independent teams.
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Dan Neumann is an Agile Coach at AgileThought and co-owner of The Branch coworking space. In his role as Agile Coach, Dan advises companies on ways to capture value by emphasizing people, interactions, customer collaboration, and responding to change. He has trained and consulted with both national and global companies. Dan also speaks and conducts workshops at regional and national conferences. Dan is co-author of the book Patterns of Agile Journeys available on LeanPub at https://leanpub.com/agilejourneys. With his wife Debi, Dan started The Branch, a co-working space in downtown South Bend. The Branch supports independent workers, telecommuters, and startup companies by providing both physical infrastructure as well as the community necessary for them to focus on growing their businesses. In addition to agile coaching and growing The Branch, Dan is a co-founder and Brigade Co-Captain for Hack Michiana, a Code for America Brigade. Interests include software development and Lean Startup.