Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility

Chapter 5. Going beyond Scrum

“It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble; it’s what we know that ain’t so.”

—Will Rogers

In This Chapter

This chapter discusses how to approach learning a new methodology and how to extend your knowledge of the methodology. We start with Scrum as a base because it is widely used in Agile projects. Although Scrum is quite effective at the team level, it needs to be expanded to work well throughout an Agile enterprise. We explore several of the mistaken beliefs that Scrum practitioners (new and experienced) hold and the unfortunate consequences of these beliefs as well as some of Scrum’s actual limitations. After considering these issues, we offer two approaches to help teams go beyond Scrum: Scrum# (which ...