Software development artifacts in large agile organizations: A comparison of scaling agile methods

Abstract

Agile frameworks or methods such as Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming are widely adopted and used by small teams within large organizations and start-ups. Established Enterprises, banks, and technology giants are aiming to introduce and implement agile methods that helps organize process in high complexity organizations. Main challenges due to higher complexity relates but are not limited to multiple value streams development pipelines orchestration, communications among many distributed teams, inter team dependencies management, information flow between teams. It can be said that large organizations need to deliver, adapt or introduce new methods to manage development organizations and deliver needed artifacts. Purpose—This paper aims to compare possible agile frameworks for scaling development organizations working in an agile culture, and their outcomes materialized as artifacts.