Tag: Scaled Agile Framework

Scaling Agile – Long Term Planning

Some of the big, age old questions around Agile software development are: How do you scale Agile with larger projects and organizations? Do you still have to plan work? How far out? In moving through our Agile journey at Constant Contact, we have found that YES, there are better ways to do planning. Where we […]

Losing the Trees through the Forest

I have written a number of articles for this blog about our adoption of the SAFe framework for scaling Agile. However, it became obvious in late 2014 that we had a fundamental problem. No matter how well we did release planning, epic prioritization, or release trains, it wasn’t getting us where we need to go. […]

How Many X Should We Have?

In my last blog post I described our engineering organization and our selection of the Scaled Agile Framework to help us organize our Agile engineering teams.  Throughout the last month, we have been socializing and teaching the Epic/Feature/Story hierarchy to the product organization.  As part of this rollout, one of the transitions that we have […]

Scaling a Great Engineering Organization with SAFe

This year we’ve begun to adopt the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) at Constant Contact to help us structure our product, business, and architectural efforts so that our organizational and business growth scales effectively. Great engineering organizations build great products. However, building a great engineering organization and keeping it executing for the business is never easy. Constant […]