Embracing the team of teams (TOT) approach
In today’s business landscape, singular teams, regardless of their proficiency, often find themselves challenged by intricate problems that necessitate a broader, collective approach. This section highlights the importance of collaboration, from recognizing the limits of individual teams to strategically coordinating multiple units. In scrum parlance, these integrated team concepts are known as Scrum-of-Scrums (SoS).
SoS is a concept that naturally evolved from the Scrum framework as organizations tried to scale their Agile practices to larger groups or teams. The origin of SoS is not attributed to a single individual but emerged as a way for multiple Scrum teams to coordinate and communicate effectively. In this book, we’ll use a more general term, team-of-teams (ToT).
The ToT approach has been popularized in the Scaled Agile Framework® as an Agile Release Train (ART), the description of which is beyond the scope...
