At the Influential Agile Leader workshop earlier this year, I led a session about scaling, and how it might not be the answer. My experience is that when people use frameworks for larger efforts, they experience these unexpected side effects:
- The framework actions often require more manager-type people to control the actions of others.
- The framework creates less throughput, not more.
Agile Scaling Frameworks: An Executive Summary
One of the participants asked, "But what if we have to scale?"