Feasibility analysis of Scaled Agile Framework for a high-tech company

Abstract

Agile project management has recently become very popular within software development industry and now a lot of large organization tend to adopt agile in the same trend. While Agile itself is not meant for the large organization. Then, large-scaled Agile has been introduced in order to overcome the problem. Our aim for this study is to analyze the feasibility to apply, one of the most famous, Large-Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to one of a big high-tech company which already went through the Agile transformation. We conducted our research by using the interview as our main method of data collection. We aim to gather data from people from a different role and different level within the organization in order to get the diversity of information. Then we conducted data analysis to identify their current challenges with their Agile. We found out that SAFe is a very well defined framework consists of many useful concepts. SAFe also gave us a better understanding and enlighten us on how to scale up Agile within a large organization. Lastly, our finding indicated that nowadays large organization with agile methodology are still having trouble with applying Agile with high-management level.