Agile & Delivery playbook/Module 8 · Scaling

Day 72 / 100 · Scaling · Scrum of Scrums

Short, focused, cross-team.

The Scrum of Scrums, first used by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber in 1996, gets representatives from each team together to clear cross-team blockers.

Who

One Per Team

Whoever is best placed for this week's issues.

Often a developer, not a manager.

What

The Seams

Dependencies, integration problems, shared blockers.

Not each team's status.

How often

Little And Often

Daily or a few times a week, fifteen minutes.

More often when integration is tight.

Source: ScrumPLoP Published Patterns: Scrum of Scrums ↗

Cross-team blockers. Short, focused, frequent.