It has been a long time since my last post. I know. What can I say – moving is difficult. Especially when you are moving to a new apartment that you just renovated. Even more difficult when you do it with children.
We had a Trello board for the renovation (see Renovating the apartment) but this doesn’t necessarily mean that everything would turn out as it should. There are always the unknowns, the unexpected, the things that are out of your reach, and there is always the contractor that doesn’t show up when he needs to.
Anyway, a lot has changed since my last post. Sadly :-(, I left the startup I worked in (SQream) and happily :-), I started recently working as an Agile Coach in CyberArk. The most evident meaning of this, is that it is time to scale up. If till now I dealt with 2-3 development teams, here in CyberArk there are that many in a single group, and there are several groups such as this.
So how do you scale Agile? Well, there’s SAFe and there’s LeSS (is it by chance that both have a small ‘e’ amongst other capital letters?). SAFe has a very clear yet complex structure to it. Just look at the picture below. A lot of instructions on what to do, which roles to introduce and how to make it work. On the other hand, LeSS talks about less roles, trying to keep it simple and let you find out how to answer the difficult questions during the adoption.
As I am new to both, I am still struggling to figure out which one makes more sense to me. LeSS sounds like my first Scrum coach, which had very few answers and usually answered my questions with more questions. Though this was frustrating at times, it made me think. SAFe sounds like my second Scrum coach, which was much more helpful with examples, best (good, for the LeSS readers) practices and answers to many of my questions. From him I learned by example. Maybe this means that the best approach is to learn, and maybe even try, both.
What do you think?
Now I am the Master 