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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

Identifying Scrum CoE benefits

Once the executives make the decision to implement Scrum and other Agile practices on an enterprise scale, they should explore the benefits of creating a CoE to assist with the efforts. Let's take a look at some of the areas where a CoE can be of benefit.

Establishing a Scrum scaling framework for agility

No two enterprise Scrum implementations are alike. The CoE defines and builds the Scrum scaling framework that fits the political and business dynamics within the organization. In addition, the CoE assesses Scrum team needs and capabilities across the organization, constantly evaluates the gaps, and works to fill the gaps with functional Scrum teams. On an enterprise scale, Scrum teams fulfill other functional roles besides product development. For example, some Scrum teams may support operational needs, such as marketing, order entry, supply chain management, channels, transportation, and distribution.

Building organizational skills and...