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Specialised boards for the SAFe® Program, Solution and Portfolio
- Program board like the physical board
- Central place to run the Scrum of Scrums
- Instant visibility for the stories progress
- Visualize, plan and manage dependencies
- Real-time board for the remote planning
Scale Like a Rockstar!
- Organize Tribes and Squads
- Flexible to align tribes at organization level
- Track dependencies and enable engagement
- Help squads to connect to the tribe goals
- Set and align squad to goals
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LeSS Works better with Kendis
- All Product teams and sprints at a single board, providing a perfect visualization for the LeSS principles
- Central place to run the Scrum of Scrums
- Instant visibility for the stories progress
- Real-time board for the remote planning
- Overview of large teams for product manager and portfolio
Scrum of Scrums made Easier
- Central place to run the Scrum of Scrums
- Supports Meta Scrum Board
- Instant visibility for the stories progress
- Visualize, plan and manage dependencies
- Supports connected boards, can scale up automatically to Scrum of Scrum of Scrums
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Scaling Model?
Scaling Model?
Your Enterprise, Your Process
- Customizable to support any scaling model
- Define the boards, layouts and KPIs of your own
- Instant visibility for the stories progress
- Visualize, plan and manage dependencies
- Real-time board for the remote planning
Frequently Asked Questions about Agile Scaling Models
What are the most popular agile scaling models? −
The four most widely adopted models are SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) for large enterprises with multiple Agile Release Trains, LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) for product-focused organizations using a single Product Owner across many teams, Scrum of Scrums as a lightweight coordination pattern for a handful of teams, and the Spotify/Tribe model for product-area autonomy with Squads, Tribes, Chapters and Guilds.
What is the difference between SAFe and LeSS? +
SAFe is a prescriptive framework with multiple configurations (Essential, Large Solution, Portfolio, Full) and adds new roles like Release Train Engineer, Solution Architect and Product Management. LeSS is intentionally minimal — it keeps standard Scrum roles, uses a single Product Owner and one Product Backlog, and scales by adding more teams rather than more process. Choose SAFe for regulated enterprise contexts; choose LeSS for single-product organizations that want to avoid extra ceremonies.
When should you use Scrum of Scrums instead of SAFe? +
Use Scrum of Scrums when you have 2–9 teams working on related but loosely coupled work and you only need a regular sync to surface dependencies and impediments. Once you cross ~50 people, share a single product, or need cadence-based planning across multiple teams, you have outgrown Scrum of Scrums and should look at SAFe, LeSS or a Tribe model.
What is the Spotify (Tribe) model? +
The Spotify model organizes work around autonomous Squads (small cross-functional teams) grouped into Tribes (collections of Squads working on a product area). Chapters connect people with the same skill across Squads, and Guilds are cross-Tribe communities of interest. It is a structural pattern, not a prescriptive framework — most organizations adapt it heavily rather than adopting it verbatim.
How do you choose the right agile scaling model? +
Match the model to four factors: size (number of teams and people), product coupling (one product vs. independent products), regulatory context (compliance-heavy contexts favor SAFe's structure), and existing culture (autonomy-driven cultures resist heavy frameworks). Start lean — Scrum of Scrums or LeSS — and add structure only when coordination cost outweighs delivery.
Can you combine multiple scaling models? +
Yes — most mature organizations end up with a hybrid. A common pattern is SAFe at the program/portfolio level for cadence and funding, Tribes/Squads for team-level autonomy inside Agile Release Trains, and Scrum or Kanban inside each team. The risk is incoherence: pick one model as the backbone and borrow from others deliberately, not by accident.
Do agile scaling models work with Jira? +
Jira covers team-level Scrum and Kanban well, but it does not natively model program-level concepts like Agile Release Trains, PI Planning, cross-team dependencies or Solution Trains. Kendis plugs that gap by syncing bi-directionally with Jira and Azure DevOps, then layering a real-time Program Board, dependency map and Solution-Level view on top.
How does Kendis support different scaling models? +
Kendis is framework-agnostic. Out-of-the-box templates cover SAFe (Program, Solution and Portfolio boards), LeSS (single board with all product teams), Scrum of Scrums (Meta Scrum board with auto-scaling to Scrum of Scrum of Scrums), and the Spotify Tribe model (Squads aligned to Tribes with OKR roll-up). You can also build a fully custom board, layout and KPI set if your enterprise runs its own scaling model.
What metrics matter when scaling agile across multiple teams? +
Track outcomes over outputs: PI predictability (committed vs. delivered objectives), cross-team dependency resolution rate, lead time from commit to production, and business KPIs tied to releases (NPS, revenue per release, customer activation). Story-point throughput is useful as a team-level signal but should never be the headline metric at scale.
How long does it take to roll out an agile scaling model? +
A small organization with 3–5 teams can adopt a scaling model in 3–6 months. Enterprises with hundreds of teams typically need 12–24 months to reach steady state, plus continuous evolution after that. The technical rollout is the easy part — most of the time goes into leadership alignment, role clarity and cultural shift.