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In this article, Craig Larman and Ahmad Fahmy discuss how long does it take an organization to reorganize in order to adopt Scrum. This article is based on the transition done at Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch Global Securities Operations Technology where the software development teams went from a traditional activity based organisation (business analysts, developers, …) to Scrum.
There were two constraints on design of the teams:
* Teams needed to be co-located.
* Teams needed to be cross-functional and cross-component; they should be able to (or be able to learn ...