Large-Scale Scrum

Description

• Concise, focused, actionable coverage of the entire project lifecycle, from planning to retrospectives
• Expert coverage of scaling requirements, planning, project management, design, and architecture
• Thoroughly addresses multisite/offshore environments, adoption strategies and organizational design
• By Craig Larman, renowned author of Applying UML and Patterns, and Bas Vodde, one of the world’s top Scrum trainers

Craig Larman is the co-creator of LeSS, and since 2005 has worked with clients (such as UBS, bwin.party, and Nokia Networks) to apply the LeSS framework to large product groups. With his friend and colleague Bas Vodde, he is the co-author of two previous books on scaling agile development with LeSS, Scaling Lean & Agile Development and Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development. He’s also author of the popular introduction, Agile & Iterative Development: A Manager’s Guide.

The Go-To Resource for Large-Scale Organizations to Be Agile

Rather than asking, “How can we do agile at scale in our big complex organization?” a different and deeper question is, “How can we have the same simple structure that Scrum offers for the organization, and be agile at scale rather than do agile?” This profound insight is at the heart of LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum).

In Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde have distilled over a decade of experience in large-scale LeSS adoptions towards a simpler organization that delivers more flexibility with less complexity, more value with less waste, and more purpose with less prescription.

Targeted to anyone involved in large-scale development, Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS, offers straight-to-the-point guides for how to be agile at scale, with LeSS. It will clearly guide you to

• Adopt LeSS
• Structure a large development organization for customer value
• Clarify the role of management and Scrum Master
• Define what your product is, and why
• Be a great Product Owner
• Work with multiple whole-product focused feature teams in one Sprint that produces a shippable product
• Coordinate and integrate between teams
• Work with multi-site teams

Direct, up-to-date guidance for succeeding with Scrum in large, geographically-dispersed organizations, from two world-class experts

• Concise, focused, actionable coverage of the entire project lifecycle, from planning to retrospectives
• Expert coverage of scaling requirements, planning, project management, design, and architecture
• Thoroughly addresses multisite/offshore environments, adoption strategies and organizational design
• By Craig Larman, renowned author of Applying UML and Patterns, and Bas Vodde, one of the world’s top Scrum trainers

This book borrows heavily from experiences the authors gained writing two previous guides to large-scale agile deployment, and the feedback they received from those texts. It is briefer, more direct, and more tightly focused on the “brass tacks” needs of real project participants.

Foreword by Stephen Denning

Preface

Chapter 1: More with LeSS 1

Chapter 2: LeSS 5

LeSS Structure

Chapter 3: Adoption 53

Chapter 4: Organize by Customer Value 77

Chapter 5: Management 113

Chapter 6: Scrum Masters 135

LeSS Product

Chapter 7: Product 155

Chapter 8: Product Owner 171

Chapter 9: Product Backlog 197

Chapter 10: Definition of Done 229

LeSS Sprint

Chapter 11: Product Backlog Refinement 247

Chapter 12: Sprint Planning 275

Chapter 13: Coordination & Integration 285

Chapter 14: Review & Retrospective 313

More or LeSS

Chapter 15: What’s Next? 329

Recommended Readings 331

Appendix A: Rules 333

Appendix B: Guides 337

Index 339

In Large-Scale Scrum, Craig Larman and Bas Vodde offer the most direct, concise, actionable guide to reaping the full benefits of agile in distributed, global enterprises. Larman and Vodde have distilled their immense experience helping geographically distributed development organizations move to agile. Going beyond their previous books, they offer today’s fastest, most focused guidance: “brass tacks” advice and field-proven best practices for achieving value fast.

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