XBA (Exponential Business Agility)

XSCALE Alliance is the Linux of the agile world, an open, ecosystem of independent Agilists, not a certificate mill:

We don’t certify roles; we use direct references to qualify real world capability.

We hand-select coaches by direct experience of their work, not “greasy pole” bureaucracy.

All coaches train and all collaborate on shared training collateral, keeping it up with real state-of-the-art agility.

Scaling is an anti-pattern that slows flow of learnings through an organization because of:

• Big meetings
• Deep hierarchies
• Long feedback loops

So XSCALE doesn’t scale agile. It de-scales organization.

De-scaling doesn’t mean down-sizing. It means self-directing portfolios of self-managing streams of self-organizing teams

We use agile to make agile using self-propagating transformation.

Starting with an uncompromised “steel thread stream”, XSCALE grows capability iteratively, without ever pushing change into existing teams and streams. That’s 

• Cheaper – slashes need for external change agents 
• Better – learning by immersion not instruction, generating no compromise & no disruption.
• Safer – it proves capability is mature before growing it.  

XSCALE isn’t a framework, but a practice pattern language for completely agile organizations:

Business Agility: chapters and councils, triple-loop learning and throughput accounting
Product Management: breadth-first, set-based, scientific and collaborative.
High Performance Delivery: XP, CI/CDD, and 3D Kanban
Extended DevOps: Applying BDD in production, yielding qualitative analytics driving real “Three Way” DevOps.