It really looks like Agility paradigm is getting mature: criteria for quantifying and qualifying agile maturity are being cleared as time goes by. A short yet very interesting paper from IBMer Scott Ambler proposes 3 agile maturity levels, the highest being named “Agility at scale”. As I wrote in several past posts (especially about agility and holism, or about SCRUM), the ability to scale in a distributed ecosystem, yet staying agile, is identified as a key maturity criteria.

Yes, again it’s very clear agility works at large scale, but as described in Scott’s paper, this requires much more than a 2 days certification (to become a so called “master”) to achieve this result.

Tags: Agile, holism, IBM, maturity, scale, scott ambler, scrum

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