Scaling up the Planning Game: Collaboration Challenges in Large Scale Agile Product Development
Paper in proceeding, 2016

One of the benefits of agile is close collaboration of customer and developer. This ensures good commitment and excellent knowledge flows of information about priorities and efforts. However, it is unclear if this benefit can be leveraged at scale. Clearly, it is infeasible to use practices such as planning game with several agile teams in the room. In this paper, we investigate how a large-scale agile organization manages, what challenges exist, and which opportunities can be leveraged. We found challenges in three areas: (i) the abil-ity to estimate, prioritize, and plan; (ii) the context of planning with respect to working environment, team build-up, and team spirit; and (iii) the ceremonial agreement which promises to allow leveraging abilities in a given context.

communication

collaboration

large-scale agile

planning

Author

Felix Evbota

Student at Chalmers

Eric Knauss

University of Gothenburg

Anna Sandberg

Ericsson

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing

1865-1348 (ISSN) 18651356 (eISSN)

Vol. 251 28-38

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1007/978-3-319-33515-5_3

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