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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

Understanding the basics

An SoS is a scaled Scrum technique to integrate the work of five to nine Scrum teams (see Figure 7.1). Each SoS operates independently on the development and delivery of a large product. In effect, a Scrum of Scrums serves as a new event in the Scrum framework to address cross-team coordination, integration, and dependency issues.

Figure 7.1 shows a Scrum of Scrums configuration of five Scrum teams. Conceptually, the SoS operates more like an event than an organizational structure. In other words, the teams operate independently from their respective locations and send Ambassadors to attend periodic meetings to coordinate their work:

Figure 7.1 – Scrum of Scrums

Some commentators view implementations of SoS as a unique Scrum organizational structure. That's really not true. The Scrum of Scrums retains the original small team structures as identified in the Scrum Guide. SoS merely provides guidance on how multiple...