Collaboration, Coordination, and Success Factors
Understand how collaboration shifts in large Agile projects and why face-to-face communication alone is insufficient. Learn to address coordination challenges in requirements, architecture, testing, and other areas to improve project success. Evaluate project performance using key areas and implement Scrum principles to guide scaling from small to large Agile initiatives effectively.
Shift in kinds of collaboration on large projects
Many Agile work practices are based on the efficacy of face-to-face communication. Much information exists only as part of a team’s oral tradition. For example, Agile requirements writers explicitly say that a major part of any requirement is the conversation about the requirement. Teams have found this works well on small projects.
Large projects, by their nature, have more people, the people are more spread out geographically (even if in different buildings on the same campus), ...