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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

Chapter 11 – Disciplined Agile (DA)

  1. What does WOW mean in DA, and why is it important?
    • WOW is an acronym for "Way of Working."
    • Because DA teams choose their WOW to improve their outcomes
  2. What are the components of establishing a Lean and Agile mindset in DA?
    • Principles, promises, and guidelines
  3. What are the essential DA Team-level roles?
    • Product Owner, Architecture Owner, Team Lead, Team Members, and Stakeholders
  4. Within a DA Team-of-Teams, cross-team integration, dependency, and coordination activities mimic what type of organizational structure?
    • Scrum of Scrums (SOS)
  5. What types of leadership teams support large team and program-level DA implementations?
    • Product Coordination Team (includes Team Leaders), Product Management Leadership Team (includes Product Owners), Architecture Owner Leadership Team (Includes Architecture Owners), Test and Integration Team, CoPs, CoEs, and Work Teams.
  6. What are the six types of product life cycles promoted by DA...