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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

Evaluating best fits

The Scrum of Scrums is largely an incomplete strategy, though it set the stage for what was to follow in modern formalized scaled Scrum strategies, such as Scrum@Scale, Nexus, and Large-Scale Scrum. Organizations that are run by pure Scrum advocates appreciate the SoS approach does not provide complex rules or bureaucratic structures and excessive overhead when scaling. The SoS is a generic Scrum approach that is easily adopted across organizations spanning commercial enterprises, federal agencies, and non-profits. However, beyond implementing the initial SoS structures, it's on the organizations' executives to figure out how to synchronize the activities of multiple SoS teams.

Given this context, unless the chief executive insists on going it alone when scaling Scrum beyond a single SoS team, this scaled Scrum approach is best limited to organizations that do not require more than nine Scrum teams and 81 people working in collaboration on a single...