XP, Lean and Scaling - Back to Basics: Scale a Mess, Get a Bigger Mess

We have done Scrum. We have done Kanban. This week Kate Megaw, Anu Smalley and Ryan Smith take on everything else, starting from one question: did anything else survive the evolutionary process? Plenty did, depending on where in the world you work and what you build. The list runs from XP and Lean to Crystal, DSDM and Scrumban. Next comes DevOps, and why two week Sprints with six week deployments made it inevitable. Then XP, the software-only framework that gave everyone else user stories and velocity, plus the person who wrote “As a, I want, so that.” It is not who you might think. Then the case for Lean as the root of every agile framework, and why cutting waste beats faking Scrum. “Agile in HR” gets retired in favor of HR agility. Then scaling: SAFe, LeSS, Scrum@Scale, Nexus and Disciplined Agile, why leaders love them, and what happens when you scale a team-level mess. It closes where every framework choice should start: what problem are you trying to solve?