Top Highlights

• our key recommendation: After working for some years in the domains of large , multisite , and offshore development, we have distilled our experience and advice down to the following: Don’t do it.
• “Start with a small group of great people, and only grow when it really starts to hurt.” That rarely happens.
• “Why do we have this policy? ... What will happen to the organizational system if we do that?”
• trying to suggest and encourage systems thinking—a thinking tool (1) to consider the deeper dynamics of the development system as a whole, (2) to understand how a system became the way it is, and (3) to reconsider assumptions underlying the existing organization.
• The result of adopting Scrum or lean principles in very large product groups inevitably leads to this higher-level organizational learning challenge.