Summary

This chapter introduced the original SoS concepts to scale Scrum beyond one or two teams. An SoS scales Scrum to support large products and for implementations spanning an enterprise as the organizational standard for development. In addition, you learned three methods to scale Scrum: bottom-up, top-down, and CoE-led. Regardless of approach, the goal is to remain true to Scrum's empirical process control theories established by Schwaber and Sutherland in the Scrum Guide.

As described for method one, you learned that the historical deployment of Scrum occurred at the product or project team level. In such cases, an engineering or technical lead is able to drive the implementation of Scrum to fix the inefficiencies associated with a failing traditional plan-driven and linear-sequential development approach (that is, waterfall). A bottom-up approach to Scrum deployment indicates members of the product development team are driving the adoption of Scrum on a larger scale...