SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
VIVO, Somerset West, South Africa
PSL, Pune, India
The SKAO is one observatory, with two telescopes on three continents. It will be the world’s largest radio telescope once constructed, and will be able to observe the sky with unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. The SKAO software and computing systems will largely be responsible for orchestrating the observatory and associated telescopes, and processing the science data, before data products are distributed to regional science centres. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is being leveraged to coordinate over thirty lean agile development teams that are distributed throughout the world. In this paper, we report on our experience in using the Scaled Agile Framework, the successes we have enjoyed, as well as the impediments and challenges that have stood in our way.
