That’s the question I’m asking myself these days…
Apart from a different scale, is it much different than to adopt Scrum in a small sized company? I tend to think the same organizational and systemic dynamics come into play: company culture, senior management support, communication channels, work environment etc.
Is it the scale of everything and how deep the company culture is rooted that might make things a lot tougher?
What do you think? Can Scrum survive in the world of fixed scope and date, top-down management, lengthy weekly email reports with hundreds of recipients in CC, big bang releases with multi-million € Marketing campaigns?
I would love to read your comments on that one!
Update: Point 1 from this comment pretty much nails my thoughts on Agile in the Enterprise. It can’t work if the leaders don’t change.
Sure – take Nokia, for example.
Hey Ricardo, thx for your comment :)
You are right, Nokia is probably the most known organization using Scrum extensively. I guess your point is around the lines of “if Nokia can do it, then everybody can…”, right?
Your point is fair but debatable for the skeptical around town. I would argue that Nokia is as I ironically describe it my post, that they didn’t radically change the way they work with strong support from the “higher spheres” and the many in between.
But I don’t know, so I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt – that should give me hopes for the future! :-P