Scaling Scrum with S@S

Scrum@Scale helps organizations scale Scrum by essentially repeating the common small Scrum team pattern but minimizing the team members who participate in cross-team communications and work sessions. This strategy helps teams avoid the network density issues we described in Chapter 4, Systems Thinking. In this context, S@S looks a bit like its predecessor, SoS, where Scrum Teams assign ambassadors to represent their interests in SoS meetings. The SoS team concepts still apply to developing a single product, just as Scrum teams only support the development of one product. The SoS operating as a team of Scrum Teams has the responsibility to develop and deliver a potentially shippable product at the end of each development iteration. And at this level of scale, SoS and S@S are essentially equivalent Scrum scaling strategies.

However, at some point of scale, the Product Owner has more work than they can handle. At that point, S@S installs multiple Product Owners...