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Agile scaling frameworks in brief comparison

Recognizing changes in the corporate environment and reacting to them promptly by adapting the individual components of the business model, such as the value proposition, resources or processes, to the new circumstances – that is the basic idea of agility. However, many companies have yet to build the capabilities required for this. For a company that traditionally works with classic project management methods, even a small-scale changeover can be a challenge for individual teams. It becomes much more difficult when the business environment requires the organization-wide introduction of agile methods. Not least because the first agile methods, such as Scrum, do not even address collaboration across different agile teams. In order to be able to use agile methods across the entire company, several so-called agile scaling frameworks have been developed since then, which enable exactly this cross-team collaboration.

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7 Hints for Agile Methods and DevOps

The transformation of product development with DevOps and agile methods only promises success when decision makers approach it company-wide.

Many companies rely on agile software development and DevOps structures in their digital transformation. Too often, however, they assign teams that are too small for this and thus set limits to their success from the outset.

In practice, seven approaches have proven themselves:

  1. Work on cultural change
  2. Measure progress
  3. Limit yourself to a few tools
  4. Ensuring security and governance
  5. Train employees properly
  6. Share best practices
  7. Get support from management
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Companies are not yet using the full potential of agile methods

Agile working practices are already widespread in companies in German-speaking countries. But there is still a lot of catching up to do in many areas. This is shown in a recent study by the management and technology consultancy BearingPoint. Companies in Austria and Germany were surveyed for this.

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