Applying systems thinking to large, complex, and integrated products
I've noted in previous sections that the original developers of Scrum, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber, both intended it to scale beyond the small product or single project. Interestingly, both Sutherland and Schwaber have extended the basic Scrum concepts to include new guidance on methods to scale Scrum across large products and at an enterprise level.
For example, Jeff Sutherland founded his new company Scrum@Scale for this purpose, and Ken Schwaber introduced his Nexus framework at Scrum.org for scaling Scrum.
We'll discuss both of these Scrum scaling approaches, along with several others, in Section Two of this book. But before we get to those chapters, we need to understand how systems thinking aids in the analysis required to deal with the increasing complexity of scaling Scrum, Lean, and Agile practices on an enterprise scale.
Putting the focus on products, not projects
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