More than XP. More than one day.

Using Scrum in single development teams had become second nature to the central BBC new media department, creating software for the entire organisation. We had been working more efficiently and with more transparency than ever. However following a reprioritisation of projects and the initiation of the flagship project, the BBC iPlayer, these teams were having to work together on a shared project for the first time. A change of project management approach was not even considered, we needed to stay agile, however we were faced with the challenge of seeing whether we could get ourselves and Scrum out of the comfort zone and scale up. We sought help from the Scrum community, gurus and their literature but somehow no-one was giving us a solution that hung together, so we just went for it. It was uncomfortable for a long while but that’s when we learnt the most. At the end of project we were left to consider whether Scrum as a process will ever be able to grow to provide a clear and complete method for scaling or whether it will always be up to organisations to have to figure it out for themselves ? This experience report outlines how we learnt to stop worrying and love to scale.