How is the software development process impacted when a large company goes agile? (keynote)

Abstract

The agile core values dictate that processes should be as light-weight as possible and that the focus should instead be on enabling frequent interactions between people. In small-scale agile environments, this approach is normally straightforward to apply since everyone working on the software project are working close together. However, when applying an agile process on a large-scale environment, more governance is required to ensure that the development and deployment of the system as a whole is consistent. The main recommendation of this paper is that in order to maintain agility in a large-scale environment, one must be careful how to apply the extra governance needed, in particular process alignment.