Scaling Agile: The Small-is-Beautiful of Hubs • James Coplien • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph http://gotocph.com James Coplien - Lean/Agile Process & Architecture Coach; Founder of the Pasteur Organizational Patterns Project ABSTRACT Scaling agile is all the rage these days, and especially popular with laggard adopters who want to broaden their management span of control. Most scaling frameworks are just classical military hierarchies suitable to command-and-control: in a suitably arranged organization of 625 people, the average number of communication hops between any two people is a very un-agile seven. Yet small-world theory says that any two of the 8 billion people on Earth are connected through about six hops, but a Scrum@Scale-like hierarchy is even worse for just 625 people. How does it work? The answer lies in self-organizing hubs, which hold the key to large group engagement— including enterprise Scrum. You know some hubs already — learn more at this talk [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 01:39 Scale-free networks 06:22 The problem 15:15 Scaling and scoping 18:33 What are scale-free networks? 23:31 Hubs reduce graph diameter 25:13 Node degree 29:39 Examples of scale-free networks 32:22 What are they good for? 46:33 We already know some examples 49:22 Example: Amazon, Apple, FB, Google, Microsoft & Oracle 50:16 Do it at home 50:55 Conclusion 52:15 Outro Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotocph.com/2021/sessions/1947/scaling-agile-the-small-is-beautiful-of-hubs RECOMMENDED BOOKS Subramaniam & Hunt • Practices of an Agile Developer • https://amzn.to/2XjbWor Uncle Bob • Clean Agile • https://amzn.to/3tpAqb5 Derby, Larsen & Schwaber • Agile Retrospectives • https://amzn.to/3hB4eNk Kent Beck & Cynthia Andres • Extreme Programming Explained • https://amzn.to/3muIlCm Jeff Sutherland • Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time • https://amzn.to/2X4GQAD https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #ScaleFreeNetworks #ScaleAgile #AgileAtScale #Agile #AgileManifesto #Scrum #MetaScrum #ScrumOfScrums #BirdsOfAFeather #BoFs #JamesCoplien #Hierarchy #SelfOrganization #SelfOrganizing Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1