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...
