Developing a Taxonomy for Agile Scaling Frameworks
Yagmur Turhan, Deborah Buehrle, Georg Herzwurm · 2024
In the last decade, various scalable agile frameworks have emerged to scale the benefits of agility to wider organizational levels and have become increasingly popular in practice. However, the variety of frameworks has not been widely understood yet. The aim of this paper is to provide a well-organized understanding of the primary dimensions and characteristics of these frameworks. To this end, a taxonomy for scaling agile frameworks was created utilising a systematic method for taxonomy development. The basis for the formal and content-related creation of the taxonomy is a systematic and focused literature review, followed by a qualitative text analysis to extract key framework characteristics, concentrating on the four agile scaling frameworks Scaled Agile Framework, Large-Scale Scrum, Disciplined Agile Delivery and Scrum@Scale. For the validation of the proposed taxonomy, an exemplary categorisation of 2 frameworks in the taxonomy was performed.