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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

Questions

  1. What is the purpose of SoS?
  2. What are the two typical approaches taken to scaling Scrum in the original Scrum model?
  3. In the context of an innovation's adoption curve applied to Scrum, what stage is Agile adoption within the software industry?
  4. Why did software engineers and consultants largely lead the movement to promote agile practices?
  5. What does it mean to prioritize Product Backlog items in terms of the highest value?
  6. Instead of hierarchical organizations, which business structures better fit the scaled Scrum model?
  7. What are the two elements necessary to build a foundation of excellence?
  8. What are the five stages of team development?
  9. Since Scrum does not advocate the use of the traditional hierarchical management structures, where is it most logical to place executive-level functions, roles, and responsibilities? And what is their primary function?
  10. Scrum has two seemingly conflicting objectives in I.T. governance. What are they...