Scaling agile - up or out
February 26, 2019
Friend: So in short - they too need to scale their agile initative.
Marcus: Oh - cool! Up or out?
Scaling agile has to be the term that I’ve seen most discussions, posts, comments and conversations about the last couple of years.
And Google seems to agree - it at is peak or going there right now.
But very seldom I’ve heard an explanation to what kind of scaling that is meant: do you want to scale up or scale out? My guess is that many times people talking about scaling agile mean scaling UP but worse I think that most times we have not decided. That is not really wise because it’s two very different problems to solve.
In this post, I wanted to reason a bit about those tradeoffs.
Computers
The distiction between scaling up and scaling out is something...