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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to take the basic principles of Lean, as introduced in the previous chapter, and apply them to software and systems development projects. Though many of the practices are tweaked a bit, the basic principles of Lean still apply across the board. And the basic goals of Lean, which are to increase value and eliminate waste, are just as important to being competitive in the software industry as they are in manufacturing or other service industries.

Altogether, you have reviewed the practical implementation of 18 Lean practices to enhance value and eliminate waste in software development activities. You've also seen how the values and principles of Agile inherently implement many Lean concepts.

This chapter also completes Module One of this book. You now have the foundational knowledge necessary to understand how to apply modern Scrum practices at scale. In the next module, you will learn about the current thought leaders and methodologist...