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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

Failing implementations of Scrum

In the previous four subsections, you have learned how Scrum implementations fail from lack of executive sponsorships, foundations, agile mindsets, and communications and training programs. In the remainder of this section, you will learn how to resolve the impediments that hinder the successful enterprise or product-level deployments of Scrum.

I've touched on this subject before, but the empirical process control mechanisms of Scrum provide a practical approach to resolving Scrum implementation issues. However, the Scrum Teams cannot resolve most of the issues identified in this section as they don't have the authority to address issues outside their direct product development-related activities.

Therefore, the organization must establish an enterprise-level Scrum CoE or some other type of organizational Scrum implementation resources to resolve issues that require executive-level decisions. These decisions include issues associated...