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Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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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

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned the following about Scrum, as well as its relevance to agile practices in terms of development and to support operational business functions:

  • The term Scrum comes from a sports metaphor related to Scrum. We also looked at why a team-oriented concept improves software and systems development and delivery.
  • The importance of executive leadership and support for long-term success and enterprise-wide adoptions.
  • How Scrum's empirical process control theory helps teams work through complex adaptive problems through experimentation and observation. We also looked at the importance of its three pillars: transparency, inspection, and adaption.
  • Scrum has a product-oriented focus on development, not a project-oriented focus. We looked at how that helps put the focus squarely on adding customer-centric value.
  • You also learned about the essential elements of Scrum so that you can include its rules, roles, responsibilities, artifacts...