How to Scale Scrum with LeSS nagy.paul@gmail.com Who am I ? Disclaimers • Whatever I say represents my personal opinion and is not an official Nokia statement • This presentation barely scratches the surface • No “official” way to scale Scrum • This talk addresses SW Products Contents • • • • • • Quick Scrum Overview Traditional organizational structures Problems associated with them Feature Teams Prerequisites for Feature Teams LeSS model Craig Larman Bas Vodde How It all Began Traditional org setup Team A Team B Team C The Product Backlog Component A Feature 1 X Feature 2 Feature 3 Component B X X Component C Component D X X Component E X X Traditional org setup Analist Requirement 1 Requirement 2 Requirement 3 . . . Requirement N Team A Team B Team C Project Manager Testing Conway’s Law The software tends to mirror the structure of the organization that build it. If you have a big, slow organization, you tend to build big, slow software. - Brad Silverberg Learning Curve Traditional org setup Analist Requirement 1 Requirement 2 Requirement 3 . . . Requirement N Project Manager Team A Team B Team Team C C’ Testing Feature Teams Source: Scaling Lean & Agile Development. By Larman & Vodde Characteristics • Long lived • Preferably collocated • End to end responsibility • Generalizing specialists Feature Team Setup Requirement 1 Requirement 2 Requirement 3 . . . Requirement N Team 1 Team 2 Team 3 3 Things Needed Continuous Integration Component Guardians Community of Practice … and how to Scale ? Large Scrum is Scrum Source: http://less.works Sprint Planning Meeting Source: http://less.works Backlog Refinement Source: http://less.works Review and Retrospective Source: http://less.works More info: http://less.works nagy.paul@gmail.com Q&A