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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

Eliminating mistakes (Poka-Yoke)

Any time there is a mistake, no matter the cause, the software development team can expect an impact in the form of delaying product or feature deliveries or wasted time spent debugging and fixing a faulty software product. Mistakes do not just show up as bugs in the software code. Mistakes also show up as defects when requirements are not accurately defined to begin with.

Implementing effective software testing strategies, such as TDD, CI, and continuous delivery capabilities, all help prevent mistakes from accumulating to the point that the team's productivity is hindered due to extended software debugging and break-fix activities. In addition, development strategies such as paired programming and peer reviews also help eliminate buggy or inefficient software. Refactoring software is another strategy used to enhance the performance of existing software code.

While it may not be possible to eliminate mistakes, it is certainly possible to...