Comments on: Why General Agile Is Not Enough – Why Scrum Wins

By: Kelly Waters

Kelly Waters — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:04:00 +0000

Hi Brandon

I was interested in your comment. In what ways would you say Scrum needs to be customised in order to be effective in larger organisations?

Personally I see a lightweight project management wrapper around Scrum for large projects. And I see some or all of eXtreme Programming to improve engineering practices.

I also see value in the more traditional PMO function providing a view of the overall programme of projects, and an Enterprise Architecture function sitting technically across the whole lot.

So I do believe an organisation benefits a lot from augmenting Scrum with XP and some project management practices - without which it possibly wouldn't succeeed. But I don't see Scrum practices heavily customised as such.

Kelly.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:45:00 +0000

I would also be interested in more specifics. My experience has been that you need a highly customized implementation of Scrum in order for it to be effective.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:04:00 +0000

Hello Kelly,

I read your blog (like others) continuously and I find it very helpful. But there are a few answers I never found.

You wrote that you implemented scrum for a product with 120 people working on. How do you synchronize the teams?

We have a product with round about 25 developers working on. We formed three teams with different main-goals but the product development mainly is concentrated on two teams that have a planning session together but separated review/retrospective sessions. Out of this approach arise some synchronization issues. I'd be interested in some information concerning your approach.

Thanks in advance