Agile Scaling
without
Blueprints
Goto, Berlin, 

04-dec-2015

Stefan Roock

stefan.roock@it-agile.de

@StefanRoock
Track: On the Boundaries of Agile
Scaling in the „good old days“™
(∼2005)
4 teams, 20-25 developers
from 3 companies
13 teams, 65 developers
from 3 companies
Sprint
Backlog
Product
Owner
Vision
Scrum
Master
Daily
Scrum
Sprint
Review
Sprint
Planning
Product
Backlog
Sprint
Product
Increment
Sprint
Retro-
spective
Development
Team
Just Scrum?
Sprint
Backlog
Product
Owner
Vision
Scrum
Master
Daily
Scrum
Sprint
Review
Sprint
Planning
Product
Backlog
Sprint
Product
Increment
Sprint
Retro-
spective
Development
Team
Just Scrum+XP
Pair
Programming
Continuous
Integration
Test Driven
Development
On-site Customer
On-site Team
Collective
Ownership
Scaling today
Agile in the
old days
Deliver useful software
every few weeks with
Scrum & XP.
At least we
suck less.
Agile
nowadays
t
2000-2005
2015
I have the
greatest job
ever.
SAFe
DAD LeSS
…
Agile in the
old days
Deliver useful
software every
few weeks.
At least we
suck less.
Agile
nowadays
t
2000-2005
2015
I have the
greatest job
ever.
WTF?
SAFe
DAD LeSS
…
Insanity?
Cargo Cult
Agile in the
old days
Deliver useful
software every
few weeks.
At least we
suck less.
Agile
nowadays
t
2000-2005
2015
I have the
greatest job
ever.
Cargo
Cult
SAFe
DAD LeSS
…
Culture and principles are more
important than practices.
After years of research we
discovered the secret ingredient
for successfully scaling agile!
Secret ingredient for
successful scaling
Blueprint
Emergent structures with 

the Agile Scaling Cycle
Coordinate
teams
Reduce
dependencies
Develop the
organization
Values
and
principles
Agile
Scaling
Cycle
Coordinate
teams
Reduce
dependencies
Develop the
organization
Agile: Autonomous
business focused
teams that own
their process.
Values
and
principles
X - Teams
Some practices for dependency reduction
Autonomy
Cross functional
Teams
Team MissionsOpen Allocation
Verticals
Sandboxing
Product
Definition
Definition of
DoneDefinition of
Ready
Modularization
Extend team
responsibility up-/
downstram
synchronized
Sprints
Release Train
Continuous
Delivery
Release Cadence
Product Owner
Beta Codex
low high
Market
Company
Teams
Technology
Agile
Scaling
Cycle
Coordinate
teams
Reduce
dependencies
Develop the
organization
Values
and
principles
Communities of Practice
Goal#1
Coordination practices
Time horizon
Numberofteams
Team Verløtung
Portfolio/Program Kanban
shared Sprint
Planning
shared Sprint Review
Continuous
Integration
shared Release
Planning
Visit Daily
Scrums
Scrum of
Scrums
consultative individual decision
Task-Forces
Open Prio Meeting
Hours Days Weeks Months
Launch Pate
Number of
coordination
practices that
aren’t needed
(any longer)
Stefans Agile Scaling Maturity Model
Agile
Scaling
Cycle
Coordinate
teams
Reduce
dependencies
Develop the
organization
Values
and
principles
Practices for organizational development
Transition team /
Agile Center
Transition
Backlog
Successful teams in
agile organization
organizational
impediments
Practices for organizational development
PDCA
Transition team /
Agile Center
Transition
Backlog
Theory of
Constraints
Lean
Thinking
Systems
Thinking
North
Star
Successful teams in
agile organization
organizational
impediments
Open Spaces
…
Gemba
Walks
Operations
Review
shared
Retrospectives
Find structures matching your business
…
see also: scaledprinciples.org
Summary
•Cultural change
•Emergent structures
•Inspect & adapt
•Self organization
•Team autonomy
•Process ownership
see also: scaledprinciples.org
Summary
Free ebook:
http://bit.ly/JimdoStory
Booklet about agile
scaling (german)
http://www.itagileshop.de/lesen/weitere-broschüren/luna/
More information
Thank you for your attention!
Stefan Roock
stefan.roock@it-agile.de
Twitter: @StefanRoock
Feel free to
contact me:

More Related Content

PDF
Agile Scaling Cycle (Lightning talk at Agile Leadership Day 2014, Zurich)
PDF
Lean vs scrum
PDF
Design for perfect scrum day kiev 2017
PDF
Building Lean
PDF
Scaling Quality by Building it in
PPTX
Agile Maturity In Lithuania - How To Measure And Who Is Leading
PPTX
Introduction to Scaling agile and a Subwaymap
PPTX
Agile Project with Fixed Budget Scope and Deadline: How is it Possible?
Agile Scaling Cycle (Lightning talk at Agile Leadership Day 2014, Zurich)
Lean vs scrum
Design for perfect scrum day kiev 2017
Building Lean
Scaling Quality by Building it in
Agile Maturity In Lithuania - How To Measure And Who Is Leading
Introduction to Scaling agile and a Subwaymap
Agile Project with Fixed Budget Scope and Deadline: How is it Possible?

What's hot (19)

PPTX
Lean, Kanban i strateško razmišljanje
PPTX
Failing With Agile
PPTX
Sprint 0 projects
PPTX
Getting a grip on your agile maturity using the ambition chart
PDF
The Agile Way
PPTX
Agile Economics - Is It Cheaper Or More Expensive To Use Agile
PPTX
Agile Past The Team - Pillar Template
PPTX
Kvalitet softvera u Agilnom razvoju
PPTX
Intro to Agile
PPTX
Scrum team evolution
PPTX
Javantura v3 - What really motivates developers – Ivan Krnić
PPTX
HP's Dev Ops Summit 2021, Better Together: An Inner Source Journey
PDF
Mozilla Agile Scrum by Dwika Sudrajat
PDF
Agile ME Meetup: Agile Transformation Session 4 - Agile Teams
PDF
Healthy_Product_Backlog.eql?let_me_developer_break_down_tasks
PDF
Death of Agile : Welcome to Value-focused Testing
PDF
Agile values, methods and software
PDF
Joakim Sunden - Scaling Agile at Spotify for MassTLC
PDF
RethinkingAgile_AAC2019
Lean, Kanban i strateško razmišljanje
Failing With Agile
Sprint 0 projects
Getting a grip on your agile maturity using the ambition chart
The Agile Way
Agile Economics - Is It Cheaper Or More Expensive To Use Agile
Agile Past The Team - Pillar Template
Kvalitet softvera u Agilnom razvoju
Intro to Agile
Scrum team evolution
Javantura v3 - What really motivates developers – Ivan Krnić
HP's Dev Ops Summit 2021, Better Together: An Inner Source Journey
Mozilla Agile Scrum by Dwika Sudrajat
Agile ME Meetup: Agile Transformation Session 4 - Agile Teams
Healthy_Product_Backlog.eql?let_me_developer_break_down_tasks
Death of Agile : Welcome to Value-focused Testing
Agile values, methods and software
Joakim Sunden - Scaling Agile at Spotify for MassTLC
RethinkingAgile_AAC2019

Viewers also liked (20)

PDF
AgileLIVE: Scaling Agile to the Program & Portfolio Levels - Part 1
PPT
Agile India 2014 - Venkatraman L on Scaling Agile
PDF
Scaling agile from the ground up
PDF
Scaling agile analysis
PDF
Alignment und Verbesserung mit dem Nordstern-Konzept
PDF
Participative Decision Making (Lightning Talk at LKCE 2014 in Hamburg)
PPTX
L'Agilité chez GEE Montréal
PDF
UX und agile Entwicklung - eine Aufgabe für das ganze Team
PDF
InnoDays OTTO E-Commerce
PPTX
Business Value Driven Portfolio Management
PDF
Alignment und Verbesserung mit dem Nordstern-Konzept (Kurzvortrag)
PDF
Agile Everywhere! - Henrik Kniberg
PDF
Agile Organisationsentwicklung oder Agilität und Organisationslernen – das ag...
PDF
Agile Transformation at Scale
PDF
Vertrauen als Vertragsbasis (Agile Contracts 2015, München)
PPTX
Scaling Agile - Multiple Team Dynamics
PPTX
Scaling Agile Product Ownership In A Large Enterprise
PDF
Scaling and Sustaining Agility
PDF
UX und Agile - eine Aufgabe für das ganze Team
PDF
XP-Days-Kurzvortrag: ALIGNMENT UND VERBESSERUNG MIT DEM NORDSTERN-KONZEPT
AgileLIVE: Scaling Agile to the Program & Portfolio Levels - Part 1
Agile India 2014 - Venkatraman L on Scaling Agile
Scaling agile from the ground up
Scaling agile analysis
Alignment und Verbesserung mit dem Nordstern-Konzept
Participative Decision Making (Lightning Talk at LKCE 2014 in Hamburg)
L'Agilité chez GEE Montréal
UX und agile Entwicklung - eine Aufgabe für das ganze Team
InnoDays OTTO E-Commerce
Business Value Driven Portfolio Management
Alignment und Verbesserung mit dem Nordstern-Konzept (Kurzvortrag)
Agile Everywhere! - Henrik Kniberg
Agile Organisationsentwicklung oder Agilität und Organisationslernen – das ag...
Agile Transformation at Scale
Vertrauen als Vertragsbasis (Agile Contracts 2015, München)
Scaling Agile - Multiple Team Dynamics
Scaling Agile Product Ownership In A Large Enterprise
Scaling and Sustaining Agility
UX und Agile - eine Aufgabe für das ganze Team
XP-Days-Kurzvortrag: ALIGNMENT UND VERBESSERUNG MIT DEM NORDSTERN-KONZEPT

Similar to Agile Scaling with Blueprints (Goto Berlin, 04-dec-2015) (20)

PPTX
Scaled Professional Scrum (Agile Greece Summit 2015, Gunther Verheyen)
PDF
Being Agile with Scrum - koders.co
PPTX
Alternatives to scaling your agile process: valuing outcomes over output
PPTX
Alternatives to scaling your agile process: valuing outcomes over output
PDF
An approach to scaling Agile in Mid size Enterprise Application Stack/ Products
PPTX
Hello agile
PDF
Agile Pitfalls
PDF
Agile Development in Large-Scale: Challenges and Insight from Research
PDF
Staying Agile: multi-team product development, the modern way
PPTX
BoS2015 Jeff Szczepanski – COO, Stack Exchange - Stack Overflow. Scaling a Te...
PDF
The Effects of Team Backlog Dependencies on Agile Multiteam Systems: A Graph ...
PPTX
Agile Keynote at PDS Romania
PPT
Scaling agile diy agile malaysia meet_up
PPTX
Scaling (Down!) Agile?
PDF
Agile 2 Cliff Berg Kurt Cagle Lisa Cooney Philippa Fewell Adrian Lander Raj N...
PDF
Agile 2 Cliff Berg Kurt Cagle Lisa Cooney Philippa Fewell Adrian Lander Raj N...
PPT
An Introduction To Agile Development
PPTX
Scrum Bangalore 14th MeetUp 05 September 2015 - Scaling Agile - Saikat Das - ...
PDF
A Self Funding Agile Transformation
Scaled Professional Scrum (Agile Greece Summit 2015, Gunther Verheyen)
Being Agile with Scrum - koders.co
Alternatives to scaling your agile process: valuing outcomes over output
Alternatives to scaling your agile process: valuing outcomes over output
An approach to scaling Agile in Mid size Enterprise Application Stack/ Products
Hello agile
Agile Pitfalls
Agile Development in Large-Scale: Challenges and Insight from Research
Staying Agile: multi-team product development, the modern way
BoS2015 Jeff Szczepanski – COO, Stack Exchange - Stack Overflow. Scaling a Te...
The Effects of Team Backlog Dependencies on Agile Multiteam Systems: A Graph ...
Agile Keynote at PDS Romania
Scaling agile diy agile malaysia meet_up
Scaling (Down!) Agile?
Agile 2 Cliff Berg Kurt Cagle Lisa Cooney Philippa Fewell Adrian Lander Raj N...
Agile 2 Cliff Berg Kurt Cagle Lisa Cooney Philippa Fewell Adrian Lander Raj N...
An Introduction To Agile Development
Scrum Bangalore 14th MeetUp 05 September 2015 - Scaling Agile - Saikat Das - ...
A Self Funding Agile Transformation

More from Stefan ROOCK (20)

PDF
Fluide Teams - abseits starrer Teamstrukturen Value-Fokus schaffen
PDF
Agile Organisation: What, When, How
PDF
Hauptsache dem Team geht's gut? Setzen! Sechs!
PDF
Agile Organisationen: eine Frage der Haltung
PDF
Scrum in cool
PDF
ScALeD: Agile Skalierung jenseits von Skalierungsframeworks
PDF
Pecha-Kucha: Scrum in Cool
PDF
Nein-Sagen für Product Owner
PDF
Agile Organisationen: eine Frage des Leadership
PDF
Roadmaps und Agile Reporting abseits von Velocity und Story Points (Agile Wed...
PDF
Roadmaps und Agile Reporting abseits von Velocity und Story Points
PDF
Roadmaps und Agile Reporting abseits von Velocity und Story Points
PDF
Vertragsgestaltung für agile Softwareentwicklung (OOP 2018, München)
PDF
Metriken@agile
PDF
Agile Verträge - Vertragsgestaltung für agile Softwareentwicklung
PDF
Warum die meisten Hackathons den Unternehmen nichts bringen
PDF
MbO, OKR und Nordstern
PDF
Agile Organisationen
PDF
Experimente zur Team- und Organisationsentwicklung (CeBit, Heise Developer Wo...
PDF
Shades of Scrum (Urs Reupke, Stefan Roock), SEACON 2015 in Hamburg
Fluide Teams - abseits starrer Teamstrukturen Value-Fokus schaffen
Agile Organisation: What, When, How
Hauptsache dem Team geht's gut? Setzen! Sechs!
Agile Organisationen: eine Frage der Haltung
Scrum in cool
ScALeD: Agile Skalierung jenseits von Skalierungsframeworks
Pecha-Kucha: Scrum in Cool
Nein-Sagen für Product Owner
Agile Organisationen: eine Frage des Leadership
Roadmaps und Agile Reporting abseits von Velocity und Story Points (Agile Wed...
Roadmaps und Agile Reporting abseits von Velocity und Story Points
Roadmaps und Agile Reporting abseits von Velocity und Story Points
Vertragsgestaltung für agile Softwareentwicklung (OOP 2018, München)
Metriken@agile
Agile Verträge - Vertragsgestaltung für agile Softwareentwicklung
Warum die meisten Hackathons den Unternehmen nichts bringen
MbO, OKR und Nordstern
Agile Organisationen
Experimente zur Team- und Organisationsentwicklung (CeBit, Heise Developer Wo...
Shades of Scrum (Urs Reupke, Stefan Roock), SEACON 2015 in Hamburg

Recently uploaded (20)

PDF
Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF) Newsletter – June 2025
DOCX
SONy product line of steeple analysis with all
PDF
Impact of Social Media Marketing on Buying Behaviors of Superstore Customers ...
PPTX
TS - CIM-as of august 2023 .pptx
PDF
NewBase 02 September 2025 Energy News issue - 1822 by Khaled Al Awadi_compre...
PDF
The Relationship between Leadership Behaviourand Firm Performance in the Read...
PDF
Trust Building in Family business: Issues and Challenges in Family Business a...
PDF
The Role of School Boards in Educational Management (www.kiu.ac.ug)
PDF
The Impact of Historical Events on Legal Communication Styles (www.kiu.ac.ug)
PPTX
PwC consulting Powerpoint Graphics 2014 templates
PDF
The Evolution of Dance as a Political Expression (www.kiu.ac.ug)
PDF
Implementing Steam Education: Challenges and Solutions (www.kiu.ac.ug)
PDF
The Evolution of Legal Communication through History (www.kiu.ac.ug)
PPTX
AI SaaS 2030: $2 Trillion Market, Unified Workflows, and the End of Fragmente...
PPTX
Hospitality & tourism management.pptxHospitality & tourism management.pptx
PPTX
Enterprises are Classified into Two Categories
PDF
Integrating Porter-Lawler Theory of Motivation and Hofstede's Dimensions of N...
PPTX
Breaking Barriers in Tech : A Female Founder’s Story of Resilience and SaaS I...
PDF
Canadian Institute of Actuaries Standards of Practice.pdf
PPTX
Business Research Methods- Secondary Data
Mukul Madhav Foundation (MMF) Newsletter – June 2025
SONy product line of steeple analysis with all
Impact of Social Media Marketing on Buying Behaviors of Superstore Customers ...
TS - CIM-as of august 2023 .pptx
NewBase 02 September 2025 Energy News issue - 1822 by Khaled Al Awadi_compre...
The Relationship between Leadership Behaviourand Firm Performance in the Read...
Trust Building in Family business: Issues and Challenges in Family Business a...
The Role of School Boards in Educational Management (www.kiu.ac.ug)
The Impact of Historical Events on Legal Communication Styles (www.kiu.ac.ug)
PwC consulting Powerpoint Graphics 2014 templates
The Evolution of Dance as a Political Expression (www.kiu.ac.ug)
Implementing Steam Education: Challenges and Solutions (www.kiu.ac.ug)
The Evolution of Legal Communication through History (www.kiu.ac.ug)
AI SaaS 2030: $2 Trillion Market, Unified Workflows, and the End of Fragmente...
Hospitality & tourism management.pptxHospitality & tourism management.pptx
Enterprises are Classified into Two Categories
Integrating Porter-Lawler Theory of Motivation and Hofstede's Dimensions of N...
Breaking Barriers in Tech : A Female Founder’s Story of Resilience and SaaS I...
Canadian Institute of Actuaries Standards of Practice.pdf
Business Research Methods- Secondary Data

Agile Scaling with Blueprints (Goto Berlin, 04-dec-2015)