Discussion: Scaling Agile

[suprenant]

What we're after:

• Our community has expressed interest in this, particularly expression curiosity about agencies using SAFe. Partner may have mentioned SAFe, may have needs to scale agile
• Exposure for guild
• Could give us content, something to memorialize (not seeing much recently, older cloud.gov, maybe FEC)
• We want to steer away from discussing specifically SAFe, rather agility at scale

Some smaller chunks we could look at:

• Agile program management
• Multiple vendors, multiple teams (what are the good things that seem to work, SAFe, LeSS, DAD)
• Step 0 in scaling
  -- Learning how to avoid it
  -- Steve Denning (Andrew to follow up)
• DA Decision framework

Possible formats:

• Training
• Coaching
• Unconference / open space : virtually
• Failures – when does agile at scale go bad?

Possible people who can represent:

• Bret, Alan A., Cata, Hopson indicated interest
• Prisby or someone else from Login.gov
• Porta's experience with scaled projects

People we can speak to about ideas:

• Uchenna (Porta to check)

Maybe/later:

• Federalist (Eddie)

Notes/other considerations

• Marketing
• yeah that SAFe one i think would make a good “marquee” agile guild event
• Good to have other members contribute
• Solicit questions beforehand
• Memorialize somehow

More context here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11w5VA-PY-KuBx7sLBJyjDdAnuTQPGR9otx9eRjTyYtQ/edit#heading=h.wpfgksukm3w4

[suprenant]

From our leads sync – Porta to follow up with Uchenna on possible folks she may know who can speak to this, and I'll look up the Steve Denning angle.

[suprenant]

@porta-antiporta FYI, I cleaned up the issue as discussed.

[mgwalker]

Closing as stale, on the assumption that the need will resurface if it still exists.