You're reading from Scaling Scrum Across Modern Enterprises Implement Scrum and Lean-Agile techniques across complex products, portfolios, and programs in large organizations

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839216473

Length 618 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Scrum

Concepts

Enterprise Resource Planning

Author (1):

Cecil 'Gary' Rupp

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Scaling Lightweight Scrum into a Heavyweight Contender

2. Chapter 1: TheOrigins of Agile and Lightweight Methodologies FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Scrum Beyond Basics

4. Chapter 3: The Scrum Approach

5. Chapter 4: Systems Thinking

6. Chapter 5: Lean Thinking

7. Chapter 6: Lean Practices in Software Development

8. Section 2: Comparative Review of Industry Scaled Agile Approaches

9. Chapter 7: Scrum of Scrums

10. Chapter 8: Scrum@Scale

11. Chapter 9: The Nexus Framework

12. Chapter 10: Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS)

13. Chapter 11: Disciplined Agile

14. Chapter 12: Essential Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®)

15. Chapter 13: Full Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®)

16. Section 3: Implementation Strategies

17. Chapter 14: Contrasting Scrum/Lean-Agile Scaling Approaches

18. Assessments

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In the introductory section of this chapter, you learned that SAFe implements 7 core competencies supporting the Lean Enterprise and their 21 dimensions that enable business agility. The SAFe core competencies associated with Essential SAFe include Agile Product Delivery and Team and Technical Agility.

The competency of Agile Product Delivery helps ensure that the organization takes a customer-centric approach to define, build, and release products and services as a continuous flow. The dimensions of Agile Product Delivery include customer centricity, design thinking, developing on cadence while releasing on demand, DevOps, and the continuous delivery pipeline.

The Team and Technical Agility competency implements the skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices that create high-performing Agile teams and Agile release teams that can deliver high-value and high-quality products and solutions for their customers. The dimensions of Team and Technical...