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Time and time again, there are situations in which a very large project team or even an entire company is looking to transition to Scrum. Quite often, these teams are not only large, but also scattered around the globe. A Scrum introduction in such an environment is extremely demanding for the change agent and all those involved in change management. You need to know the specifics of such an endeavor and coordinate across all the departments and staff, whether they are involved or just impacted. Mistakes made in this respect will immediately multiply themselves.
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A truly agile enterprise will not conduct performance reviews on an annual basis. Feedback is expected in short cycles, preferably daily.
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Depending on the specific task and situation at hand your team may already decay from seven people. Try it out and involve your developers in the decision making process.
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Depending on the chosen scaling model, this coordination meeting works differently. “Scrum of Scrums” is a very general term, originating from the early days of Scrum.
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“Overhead” refers to expenses for administrative or other tasks that have nothing to do with the actual product development. Every company should strive to minimize these costs as such.
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A proxy Product Owner is an information relay of the Product Owner. He does not have decision-making powers and only forwards information coming from the top. Some information is lost or distorted. This is not a desirable state and should be avoided.
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Again, I am relying on old terms here in order not to favor any specific scaling approach. Depending on your choice, you will find other terms like “community of practice” or “guild”.
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The Scrum guide defines the rules of Scrum. In these 17 pages (July 2016) are the cornerstones (Schwaber and Sutherland 2016) defined.
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Schwaber, K. & Sutherland, J. (2016, July). The scrum guide. Scrum.org. 28.08.2017. http://scrumguides.org/docs/scrumguide/v2016/2016-Scrum-Guide-US.pdf#zoom=100
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Maximini, D. (2018). Introducing Scrum into Large Teams. In: The Scrum Culture. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73842-0_14
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