Enterprise Agile Scaling: The Future is Here!

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As we know, agile approaches support software construction by small, co-located teams.  However, agile approaches are now being used in a wide range of very complex environments and not just the small, co-located team environments armed with a stack of index cards that dominated the early agile literature.   

In the April 2012 issue of PMI’s PM Network magazine, four of the signatories to the now-legendary Manifesto for Agile Software Development back in 2001 were asked, “Where would you like agile to go in the future?”

• Andrew Hunt said he would like to see a flourishing ecosystem of new ideas, new development practices, new languages, new methodologies and new ways to satisfy the customers with working codes that’s easy to modify and evolve to suit the rapidly changing needs of modern business.
• Arie van Bennekum said, “Agile will grow in portfolio management business management because we cannot do without it.  The most healthy organizations will be agile organizations.”

But how do we scale agile to adapt to the flourishing ecosystem while facilitating business sponsors, steering committees and/or project management offices (PMOs) interested in creating project-related decision frameworks, selecting specific projects based on those frameworks, planning the delivery of those projects or …

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