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Scaling: Aligning Teams for Agile Growth and Continuous Value Delivery

Coordinating multiple teams to optimise flow, align efforts, and sustainably deliver value at enterprise scale in complex environments.

Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise using lean principles and adaptive product structures.

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Overview

Scaling refers to the ability of an organisation to coordinate multiple teams effectively in order to deliver complex products while maintaining agility. This concept is crucial as it enables organisations to align their efforts, optimise flow, and enhance value delivery across the enterprise. By applying lean principles and adaptive product structures, scaling facilitates a cohesive approach to product development, ensuring that teams can respond swiftly to changing market demands without sacrificing quality or speed.

The significance of scaling lies in its long-term, systemic nature, which fosters an environment where teams can operate autonomously yet remain aligned with overarching business objectives. This alignment is essential for maximising efficiency and minimising waste, allowing organisations to leverage their collective capabilities. Scaling also encourages a culture of continuous improvement, where feedback loops and collaboration are integral to the development process. By focusing on these elements, organisations can achieve sustainable growth and deliver value predictably, ultimately enhancing their competitive edge in a rapidly evolving landscape. The emphasis on flow and value delivery ensures that scaling is not merely about size but about creating a robust framework that supports innovation and responsiveness across all levels of the organisation.

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From Fragmentation to Flow: How NKD Agility Helped SLB Consolidate Systems and Standardize Engineering Practice Across 800+ Teams

NKD Agility helped SLB unify 800+ engineering teams by consolidating DevOps systems, standardizing processes, and improving visibility, collaboration, and delivery.
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Nexus Guide

Discover more about Nexus Guide and how it can help you in your Agile journey!
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Mastering the Art of Scaling Scrum: Insights from the Scaled Professional Scrum Course

Learn practical strategies for overcoming common challenges in scaling Scrum, based on hands-on insights from the Scaled Professional Scrum course and the Nexus framework.
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Create your own path to Organisational Agility

Learn how to achieve organisational agility by tailoring change to your unique context, building a guiding coalition, and engaging all stakeholders in continuous improvement.
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Mastering Sustainable Scaling: Overcoming Product Development Challenges with Naked Agility

Learn how to overcome scaling challenges in product development by reducing technical debt, improving team alignment, and building sustainable, growth-ready systems.
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Why More Teams Won't Speed Up Delivery: The Truth About Scaling Effectively

Adding more teams doesn’t guarantee faster delivery; effective scaling requires reducing dependencies, aligning goals, and minimising coordination overhead for real results.
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Mastering the Art of Scaling Product Development: Why Adding More Developers Isn't the Answer

Explores why scaling product development requires system improvements, not just more developers. Covers alignment, technical debt, and feedback loops for sustainable growth.
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Mastering the Art of Scaling Agile: Strategies to Maintain Agility Across Multiple Teams

Learn effective strategies for scaling agile across multiple teams, managing dependencies, avoiding common pitfalls, and maintaining agility as your organisation grows.
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Are there any Scrum courses that teach you how to scale Scrum?

Learn how to scale Scrum by tailoring frameworks to your organisation, focusing on dependency management, alignment, and iterative improvement for effective agile delivery.
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Overview of the 'scaling with portfolio Kanban' course

Learn how to apply Kanban at the organisational level to optimise workflow, improve predictability, and make data-driven decisions across multiple teams and projects.
Signals

When you scale Scrum, the challenge isn’t just delivery—it coherence

Explains how scaling Scrum requires UX coherence through Communities of Practice, shared frameworks, and collaboration—not central control—to ensure consistency without bottlenecks.
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Big Scrum: All you need and not enough

Explores how to scale Scrum effectively by applying agile values, fostering professional teams, and adapting processes to fit unique organisational needs for large-scale agility.
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One Engineering System

One Engineering System (1ES) is a strategic standardised, integrated framework designed to streamline software development by unifying tools, processes, and practices across teams. It provides a consistent, scalable foundation that supports high-quality, efficient, and secure software delivery.
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Scaling Professional Scrum with Visual Studio Team Services

Explains how to scale Professional Scrum across multiple teams using Visual Studio Team Services, covering automation, Nexus integration, and practical setup guidance.
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Unlocking Sustainable Growth: Why Leadership is the Key to Successful Scaling

Effective scaling depends on strong leadership—empowering teams, removing bottlenecks, and decentralising decisions to enable sustainable organisational growth.
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Scaling Smart: How to Build Sustainable Growth Without the Chaos

Learn how to achieve sustainable, resilient organisational growth by focusing on simplification, value delivery, and effective agile practices—avoiding chaos as you scale.

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