Published by Addison-Wesley (September 30, 2016) © 2017
Craig Larman | Bas VoddeThe 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
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