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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

Scaling with the SoS

To understand SoS, you must first understand this is not a new way of doing Scrum nor is it a new formalized Scrum framework. Rather, the purpose of SoS is to minimally extend the basic Scrum framework to manage large product dependency, coordination, and integration issues across multiple teams, with negligible overhead and complexity.

Some people refer to SoS as a Team of Teams, while others sometimes refer to SoS as a type of MetaScrum. That's not a good practice, as different people tend to have varying opinions on what these terms really mean. For example, a Team of Teams is not defined in any Scrum framework, and MetaScrum is a defined pattern in Sutherland's more recent Scrum@Scale Guide. Sutherland also expands on the concept of MetaScrum as a pattern in his book, A Scrum Book: The Spirit of the Game.

Jeff Sutherland describes the "first scaled Scrum" implementation as occurring at IDX Systems (now G.E. Healthcare). The first...