Remove Dependencies, Don’t Manage Them
Explains why dependencies are a sign of poor system design and outlines steps to eliminate them by aligning teams, clarifying ownership, and …
Scaling agile beyond teams to drive enterprise-wide transformation and innovation.

Large Scale Agility refers to the application of agile principles and practices across entire organisations, transcending individual teams to foster a culture of adaptability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. This concept is crucial for enabling enterprises to respond swiftly to market changes and customer needs, ensuring that value delivery is both predictable and sustainable. By integrating agile methodologies at scale, organisations can break down silos, enhance cross-functional collaboration, and align strategic goals with operational execution.
Large Scale Agility emphasises systemic change, focusing on the organisation as a whole rather than isolated teams. It encourages the adoption of frameworks such as the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) or Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), which provide structured approaches to scaling agile practices. This holistic view allows for improved transparency, better decision-making, and a shared understanding of objectives across all levels of the organisation.
The long-term benefits of Large Scale Agility include increased innovation capacity, enhanced employee engagement, and a stronger alignment between business and technology. By fostering an environment where teams can experiment, learn, and adapt, organisations position themselves to thrive in an ever-evolving landscape, ultimately driving sustained competitive advantage through agility at scale.
Explains why dependencies are a sign of poor system design and outlines steps to eliminate them by aligning teams, clarifying ownership, and …
NKD Agility helped SLB unify 800+ engineering teams by consolidating DevOps systems, standardizing processes, and improving visibility, collaboration, …
Explores when to use a single Azure DevOps project versus multiple projects, detailing impacts on flow, visibility, governance, and team collaboration …
NKD Agility helped SLB unify build and release processes across 90 teams in 13 countries, boosting team ownership, efficiency, and engineering …
Scaling agility beyond teams to drive organisational responsiveness and adaptability.
Coordinate multiple teams to deliver complex products while preserving agility. Focus on alignment, flow, and value delivery across the enterprise …
Explains the Nexus framework for scaling Scrum with multiple teams, detailing roles, events, and artefacts to coordinate product delivery and manage …
Drive long-term success with Agile Strategy. Align vision, execution, and adaptability to deliver continuous value.
Explains how scaling Scrum requires UX coherence through Communities of Practice, shared frameworks, and collaboration—not central control—to ensure …
Learn practical strategies for overcoming common challenges in scaling Scrum, based on hands-on insights from the Scaled Professional Scrum course and …
Learn effective strategies for scaling agile across multiple teams, managing dependencies, avoiding common pitfalls, and maintaining agility as your …
Effective scaling depends on strong leadership—empowering teams, removing bottlenecks, and decentralising decisions to enable sustainable …
Learn to scale Scrum with the Nexus Framework, tackle cross-team challenges, and prepare for SPS certification through hands-on workshops and …
We partner with businesses across diverse industries, including finance, insurance, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, technology, engineering, transportation, hospitality, entertainment, legal, government, and military sectors.

Teleplan

Slaughter and May

Schlumberger

Philips

Trayport

Hubtel Ghana

Brandes Investment Partners L.P.

YearUp.org

Boeing

Lockheed Martin

Graham & Brown

Higher Education Statistics Agency

Ericson

Emerson Process Management

Xceptor - Process and Data Automation
Boxit Document Solutions

Microsoft
CR2

New Hampshire Supreme Court

Nottingham County Council

Ghana Police Service

Washington Department of Transport

Washington Department of Enterprise Services

Department of Work and Pensions (UK)
Boxit Document Solutions

Genus Breeding Ltd

Xceptor - Process and Data Automation

Boeing

Flowmaster (a Mentor Graphics Company)

Slaughter and May