7 things to check before you decide to Scale Scrum

Perhaps you don’t need to scale at all!

Willem-Jan Ageling
Nov 3 · 5 min read
And old scale with text ‘light’ and ‘heavy’
And old scale with text ‘light’ and ‘heavy’
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The world is flooded with approaches to scale Scrum. Popular frameworks are SAFe, Nexus, LeSS, Scrum@Scale. While all of these approaches may have their merits, it breaks my heart when people scale without considering a couple of critical topics. Here are 7 things to check before you decide to scale Scrum.

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Willem-Jan Ageling

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