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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

Applying Lean principles to software development

The subject of Lean Thinking applied to software and systems development is quite broad in scope. Most importantly, Lean practices have become the centerpieces to several modern Agile approaches, such as Disciplined Agile and the Scaled Agile framework® (SAFe®), we must cover the concepts behind Lean Thinking and Lean Development practices before we get to those chapters. Because of the scope of this subject, this book includes two chapters devoted to introducing Lean Development. This chapter introduces the historical roots of Lean and its generalized concepts and practices. In contrast, Chapter 7, Scrum of Scrums applies Lean Development concepts and practices to software and systems development.

Leaning on principles

As noted in the preceding section, the concepts and principles behind Lean practices apply equally well across both manufacturing and services-oriented industries, the latter of which includes the software...