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...