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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
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Section 2: Comparative Review of Industry Scaled Agile Approaches
16
Section 3: Implementation Strategies

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned that systems thinking provides a way to analyze the complexity caused by the stochastic impacts of interrelating elements within a system. Complexity in a system goes up with each increase in the number of participating elements and relationships.

You have learned that a system is more than the sum of its parts. This complexity arises because of the exponential growth in potential cause-and-effect relationships as the number of elements increases.

We also went through the concepts and vocabulary of systems thinking and learned how to apply those concepts to issues related to the implementation of Agile capabilities. In addition, you also saw how to apply systems thinking to analyze the elements and relationships within a Sprint Planning event when employing Scrum to support a large and complex product-development activity, and as part of an enterprise Scrum transformation.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to apply lean–...