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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

Building effective CoEs

You might want to start by not calling them centers of excellence. Find a more innocuous name, such as Scrum Advocates, Scrum Implementation Champions, or Scrum Working Groups. That avoids the notion that these folks are the experts who are somehow superior to the Scrum team members. While the CoE staff may have greater knowledge and experiences, they are still learning human beings. If your organization decides to retain the Scrum CoE verbiage, then focus on the word "excellence" as indicating their role to help the organization continuously improve and achieve excellence.

Avoid any notion that the CoEs are somehow in charge of the day-to-day operations of the Scrum teams. While they may have some governance responsibilities, they cannot over-govern. Mostly, they are a body of experienced resources available to the Scrum teams as collaborative and participative partners. Some CoEs have executive powers, but those powers are used to help to remove...