Chapter 23. Extending the new process across your company
Creating a successful Scrum team is only the first step on the road to an Agile company. In most enterprises today, you must create a successful product portfolio delivered by distributed/outsourced teams. Even then, to win in a market segment, an Agile approach to the enterprise product strategy is needed to dramatically improve opportunity for success.
Jeff Sutherland, co-creator of the Scrum development process
Chapter 22 concluded our case study as we wrapped up the project with a retrospective. With the pilot under your belt, it’s time to look at what you’ve learned and what you need to do to scale the new process across your company.
As we’ve mentioned throughout the book, the pilot project may be all that is needed for a smaller company to get started with agile, but larger companies will need to do additional work to achieve enterprise-wide adoption. In this chapter, we’ll help you continue with scaling by discussing common findings and how to increase your agility level through the use of the Sidky Agile Measurement Index (SAMI). The SAMI will help you measure your current level of agility and determine logical places to continue improving your process. The SAMI is similar to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) in that it uses levels, but the purpose of the levels is to help you measure where you are, not to act as a scoring mechanism.