Chapter 5
Growing Scrum with Large-Scale Scrum
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting up to speed on the LeSS and LeSS Huge frameworks
Descaling your organization with LeSS principles and practices
Meeting the product owner, Scrum Master, and other key players
Transforming your organization to enterprise agility with LeSS
Steering clear of common adoption pitfalls
To understand Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), you first need to know Scrum basics. According to the LeSS Company, which manages the LeSS framework (http://less.works), “Scrum is an empirical-process control development framework in which a cross-functional, self-managing team develops a product in an iterative incremental manner.” (Empirical in this context means that decisions are based less on up-front planning and more on experimentation and measuring outcomes. Cross-functional means a team contains all the people with all the knowledge and skills to create a product. See Chapter 1 for more about Scrum.)
LeSS is Scrum principles and practices ...