Managing Multiple Teams at Scale with Scrum and Lean

Scrum has become very popular in agile development shops, but most organizations that adopt Scrum run into challenges when they expand beyond a few teams. Ken Paugh believes that you can overcome the challenging patterns of scaling Scrum by focusing on lean-flow (removing delays between the steps of a development organization’s workflow). Ken begins by discussing how cross-functional teams are a manifestation of the lean mantra of removing delays. He discusses ways to manage projects spanning multiple teams, including creating teams that don’t meet the definition of classic Scrum. Ken shows how hybrid methods of Scrum teams working within the context of lean-flow can result in much better coordination of multiple teams than the Scrum-of-Scrums approach. He concludes with a kanban/Scrum hybrid approach for particularly difficult situations. Join Ken to learn how you can employ lean-flow techniques to improve your Scrum teams’ flow almost immediately.