Chapter 7 – Scrum of Scrums

1. What is the purpose of Scrum of Scrums (SOS)?
   • To minimally extend the underlying Scrum Framework in order to manage large product dependency, coordination, and integration issues, across multiple teams, with negligible overhead and complexity.
2. What are the two typical approaches taken to scaling Scrum in the original Scrum model?
   • Bottom up-led by engineering/developers
   • Top down-led by executive management
3. In the context of an innovation's adoption curve applied to Scrum, what stage is Agile adoption within the software industry?
   • Early to late majority stage
4. Why did software engineers and consultants largely lead the movement to promote agile practices?
   • They too often received most of the blame for failures caused by strict adherence to the traditional waterfall-based development model
5. What does it mean to prioritize Product Backlog items in terms of highest value?
   • Development priority goes to those items with the highest customer...