Agile and Scaling Scrum

As team sizes grow, organizations grow and their needs become more complex, bigger and more complex impediments arise along the road. The role of Scaling Scrum is to provide a framework to continually identify and remove dependencies created by increased complexity.

Scaling Scrum, like implementing Agile Scrum methodology is a matter of choice. Many organizations have reaped tremendous benefit and even more continue to do so. However, the primary integration point of Scaled Scrum is within the culture of an organization. The complexity of an organization’s hierarchy and culture defines the kind of products and applications it produces. In the words of programmer Melvin Conway:

“organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”