Assessing the adoption level of scaled agile development: a maturity model for Scaled Agile Framework

Assessing the adoption level of scaled agile development: a maturity model for Scaled Agile Framework

Although the agile software development approaches have gained wide acceptance in practice, the concerns regarding the scalability and integration of agile practices in traditional large-scale system development projects are prevailing. Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has emerged as a solution to address some of these concerns. Despite few encouraging results, case studies indicate several challe...

Characteristics and Principles of Scaled Agile

The Agile Manifesto and Agile Principles are typically referred to as the definitions of "agile" and "agility". There is research on agile values and agile practises, but how should “Scaled Agility” be defined, and what might be the characteristics and principles of Scaled Agile? This paper examines the characteristics of scaled agile, and the principles that are used to build up such agility. ...

The Agile Maturity Model

The Disciplined Agile Framework: A Pragmatic Approach to Agile Maturity

It is possible to combine Agile and Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI), but few organizations are doing this in practice. There are many challenges to be overcome, not the least of which is the very different mindsets of adherents of each approach. More importantly, we have a better option available to us in the form of the Disciplined Agile (DA) Framework. The DA process decision fram...

Reifegradmodell für agile Unternehmensentwicklung (Agile Maturity Model)

Viele agile Reifegradmodelle konzentrieren sich stark auf die Bewertung und agilen Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten von Teams und teilweise von Abteilungen. Das bedeutet, dass die Konzentration der Modelle auf Projektarbeit und nur in wenigen Fällen auf Linientätigkeiten liegt. Dabei handelt es sich dann oft um technische Bereiche und Abteilungen. Das in diesem Beitrag vorgestellte Reifegradmodell hat...