Distributed Scrum at Scale

Jan Willem Gerritsen

Scrum Day Europe7th of July 2016

“IT IS NOT THE STRONGEST OR THE MOST

INTELLIGENT WHO WILL SURVIVE, BUT

THE ONE MOST RESPONSIVE TO CHANGE”

- CHARLES DARWIN -

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• Rapidly changing customer demands

• Increasingly high technological standards

• New competitors join the market every day

• Young talent is looking for attractive employers

The Banking World is transforming

• Clients

• Employees

• Regulators

• Partners

Our world pleads for agility

• 4,750+ FTE

• 2,000 IT applications

• 1,000+ processes

• 4+ Vendor partners

But how to transform an international, large legacy organization?

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We believe in an incremental approach…

…starting at the Scrum Team level

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Step by step we are aligning Scrum Teams across our Value Streams

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• Scaling Agile requires rigorous change in the way we think and act within ABN AMRO

• Distributed Agile demands effective collaboration with partners across the globe

Distributed Scrum at Scale remains a challenge

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• 60+ Scrum Teams

• Working software

• Satisfied clients

• Happy employees

• Suitable housing

But we are realizing amazing results!

• We need controlled Agile processes

• We need to simplify our organization

• We need different flavours of Agile

• Collaboration across value streams is essential

• We need to invest in Agile leadership

Our key learnings from the journey until now:

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The magic of Agile at ABN AMRO