5 Ingredients For Multi-Team Alignment

Part 4 of my 8 part Training Series on Scaling Agile Practices

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In the last post, we discussed how a Single Team Masters Agility.

We discussed the tools and practices single teams use to make people within those teams work together efficiently and effectively.

Now, what about Multiple Teams?

Scaling means going beyond a single team, right?

As discussed in the first post of the series Problems with Scaling, the biggest challenge we have in our quest to Master Agility for Multiple Teams is:

“Alignment & Co-ordination”

And this is the problem we will try to solve in this post.

Here's where we currently stand in our “Scaling” journey:

1. Problems with Scaling

2. First Principles of Scaling

3. Perfecting Single-Team Agility

4. Multi-team alignment ← this post

5. Multi-team roles and responsibilities

6. Multi-team backlog

7. Convergence

So, what does it take to align multiple teams?

Let’s find out.

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