program selection system

Now that Agile has crossed Moore’s technology adoption chasm we’re finding that we need to address many of the scaling issues that we’ve mostly ignored until now. There is more to scaling agile than addressing the need of large or distributed teams. This presentation overviews the challenges and issues which the agile community must address in order to scale agile techniques and philosophies to meet the needs of modern organizations. Experiences and potential solutions from within IBM and several customers will be discussed, including both what works and what doesn’t.

Agile project teams often find themselves working in situations where they must comply to government regulations, where they must work with legacy systems and databases that have existed for decades, where they must conform to the enterprise architecture, where the project gets funded in accordance to the organization’s portfolio management process, where they must work with enterprise teams that aren’t as agile as they could be, where they must work with people from other organizations who may not have the same priorities as they do, where they must conform to the organization’s existing governance strategy, and where they must work with a diverse range of stakeholders that do not speak with a single voice. Things are clearly very different over here on the right-hand side of the chasm.