Re: How well does Agile scale?

Lisa,

Would you know of anyone at those companies who might know someone
that I could talk to about their experiences and how they use scrum?

Maybe we can facilitate this through the use of linked in?
http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamwhite

Adam

--- In agile-testing@..., "Lisa Crispin"
<lisa.crispin@...> wrote:
>
> 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 Testers
> and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
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> http://lisa.crispin.home.att.net
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>