How do you do sprint planning meetings when you have, for example, 60 people and 8 teams working on the same product? One neat way is to get them all into the same room and do them together. This is a great way to stimulate collaboration and resolve dependencies - but there are some important practical aspects to take into consideration. Having done this with several different companies over the past few years I’d like to share some experiences and lessons learned.

I will focus on the practical aspects of getting this to work, with photographs and examples from real cases.

Agile adoption initiatives succeed and fail. There is no agreement on why they do so. The current focus for scaling Agile seems to be on modifying existing Agile practices, adding new ones, and getting the right toolset installed. I’ve come to believe that the main reason for the success of any Agile adoption effort are the individuals, their skills and their personalities. All other aspects of Agile are of secondary importance.

In this talk I will share several individual skills and mental models that are necessary for successful scaling.

How do you scale Scrum to hundreds of people? This presentation will explain a way of organizing your development so that it scales up well. It involves breaking the link between architecture and organization, breaking code ownership and organize the development in a more customer centric way. This has its drawbacks too! These are explained and some techniques for overcoming these drawbacks are discussed. This talk is based on the “feature teams” and “requirement areas” chapters in the recently published “Scaling Agile & Lean Development” by Bas Vodde and Craig Larman.

The business analyst role seems conspicuously missing from most agile methods. Do agile methods make business analyst an obsolete role? Certainly not! But how do you integrate what is sometimes portrayed as a plodding and documentation driven role into an agile project? This tutorial provides participants practical guidance for how the business analyst integrates and collaborates with all members of the team. During this workshop the participant will learn how to construct and evolve an agile business analysis process that is appropriate for their specific project environment.