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Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises

By : Cecil 'Gary' Rupp
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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

Chapter 8: Scrum@Scale

This chapter introduces the Scrum@Scale (S@S) approach to scaling Scrum, which is the latest thinking from Jeff Sutherland, one of the two developers of Scrum. In this chapter, you will learn how Scrum@Scale extends the original Scrum framework to support the development of large and complex products, processes, services, and systems. You will learn how Scrum@Scale offers a linear scalable approach to installing and coordinating multiple Scrum Teams with the goal to deliver high quality and value, while simultaneously improving business agility.

This chapter outlines the basics of this scaled Scrum approach, consistent with Sutherland's Scrum@Scale Guide (https://www.scrumatscale.com/). You will learn how the Scrum@Scale Guide builds upon the concepts outlined in the original Scrum Guide and on the values and principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto. But where the original Scrum Guide operates at the single team/single product level, the Scrum@Scale...