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Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
Book Image

Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises

By: Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

Overview of this book

Scaled Scrum and Lean-Agile practices provide essential strategies to address large and complex product development challenges not addressed in traditional Scrum. This Scrum/ Lean-Agile handbook provides a comprehensive review and analysis of industry-proven scaling strategies that enable business agility on an enterprise scale. Free of marketing hype or vendor bias, this book helps you decide which practices best fit your situation. You'll start with an introduction to Scrum as a lightweight software development framework and then explore common approaches to scaling it for more complex development scenarios. The book will then guide you through systems theory, lean development, and the application of holistic thinking to more complex software and system development activities. Throughout, you'll learn how to support multiple teams working in collaboration to develop large and complex products and explore how to manage cross-team integration, dependency, and synchronization issues. Later, you'll learn how to improve enterprise operational efficiency across value creation and value delivery activities, before discovering how to align product portfolio investments with corporate strategies. By the end of this Scrum book, you and your product teams will be able to get the most value out of Agile at scale, even in complex cyber-physical system development environments.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Scaling Lightweight Scrum into a Heavyweight Contender
8
Section 2: Comparative Review of Industry Scaled Agile Approaches
16
Section 3: Implementation Strategies

Requiring executive sponsorship

In the previous chapter, Origins of Agile and Lightweight Methodologies, I mentioned that a successful enterprise implementation of Scrum requires the support of a CEO or, at a product level, a senior-level executive who can assign a Product Owner to the development effort. As we get further into this chapter, we'll explore why that's the case. I don't want to imply that it's not possible to employ Scrum concepts within a small development team as a standalone effort. However, the team members' efforts will be frustrated without the executives buying in and having a basic understanding of Scrum concepts.

The successful implementation of Scrum requires making changes to traditional software development philosophies, culture, organizational structures, and infrastructure. Any project team that attempts to leverage Scrum concepts quickly runs into a host of organizational problems related to those four areas of concern. The Scrum...