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Often it has been said that "agile doesn't scale". This is a good, short, article by Dean Leffingwell on seven agile practices that do scale. They are:

1. Iteration. "create tested working code in a small time box"
2. Unified Define/Build/Test teams. "eliminating the functional barriers [...] there is no limit to the number of such teams that can be formed!"
3. Smaller and more frequent releases. (see Creating Passionate Users on Ultra-fast release cycles/myspace)
4. Two-level planning. the long and short view
5. Concurrent testing. Unit testing, acceptance testing, [etc. ...] occur inside each iteration [....] that persists in the future as regression tests [...] in future iterations
6. Continuous integration. "I witnessed one team of approximately 300 people building a large-scale systems infrastructure application reduce the integrate-build-regression test cycle time from a month to less than a day."
7. Regular reflection and adaptation. "empowered, agile teams naturally address and eliminate the roadblocks [....] Since this process is not prescriptive, it can give some discomfort to project management [...] who tend towards documented, prescriptive and mandated processes.

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