Forbes calls agile as “The World’s most popular innovation engine” back in 2015 and a few years following, agile project management methodology has grown as the most successful project management methodology in the system.
These days 2Million+ firms are performing agile methodology and producing brilliant returns as well. That is not a shock.
As per the Pulse of Profession report, “75% of agile organizations achieve their business goals. In addition to this, 65% agile projects met their deadline and 67% inside the budget”.
When you link these numbers with separate project management methodologies, then you can realize notice a huge difference in project success rates, which speaks volumes about the impact agile methodology, has made on the project management landscape.
The biggest obstacle in implementing agile in large-scale enterprises is scalability. The bigger the company size, the more difficult is to scale agile according to your needs.
So, what is the solution to this problem? Read on to find out
What Experts Had To Say
Harish Grama, Vice President of rational product development and customer support at IBM provides a formula to resolve this issue.
According to him, “there are three key elements to successfully scaling and implementing agile in large enterprises”.
- Process
- Tools
- Discipline
According to Jeff Sutherland, co-inventor of Scrum-Agile framework and CEO of Scrum Inc, “Big companies have bigger problems so they cannot afford to have sloppy practices.”
Robert Holler, CEO of VersionOne Inc, “a vendor for project management tools agrees to the notion that implementing agile in a large organization is exponentially more difficult”.
He said, “You have to treat Agile transformation as a change management process”.
On the other hand, Theresa Lanowitz, Founder of Voke Inc “warns large organizations and tells them to first assess whether agile is the right fit for them or not before implementing it”.
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