Towards an Understanding of Scaling Frameworks and Business Agility: A Summary of the 6th International Workshop at XP2018

TL;DR

This paper summarizes discussions and research on scaling frameworks and business agility in large-scale agile development, highlighting recent trends and proposing a future research agenda.

Contribution

It provides an overview of recent workshop contributions, discussions, and a revised research agenda for large-scale agile development.

Findings

Growing interest in scaling frameworks and business agility

Summarizes four recent research papers on large-scale agile methods

Proposes a new research agenda for future studies

Abstract

Large development projects and programs are conducted using agile development methods, with an increasing body of advice from practitioners and from research. This sixth workshop showed in increasing interest in scaling frameworks and in topics related to achieving business agility. This article summarizes four contributed papers, discussions in "open space" format and also presents a revised research agenda for large-scale agile development.