I haven't worked on a project bigger than 30 developers, but I've visited
and talked to large development organizations who did this successfully. I
hope some of the teams I know about (whose members are on this list) will
share their experiences - you know who you are!
Generally the teams I've talked to divide into small teams of 10 members or
fewer, with all the roles they need on each team and maybe some supporting
teams of specialists who share time among different teams. They do scrum of
scrums on a daily basis so that everyone stays on the same page. CI and
builds can be a challenge if you have a huge code base and builds take a
long time. Sometimes each team builds their own stuff throughout the day or
the iteration and there is one big build a night or every few days - I don't
think this is great and I'd like also like to know how other teams deal with
this.
I think it's a topic that can use a lot more thinking and study - hope I
have the opportunity to do more of this myself.
-- Lisa
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Adam White <
adam_white99@...> wrote:
> I'm wondering how well agile scales as the teams get larger. Does
> anyone have any experiences they can share about using scrum on a team
> of 35-40 developers and testers for an enterprise level product?
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Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers
and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
http://www.agiletester.cahttp://lisa.crispin.home.att.nethttp://lisacrispin.blogspot.com
