Scrum# is an extension to Scrum that was developed by Net Objectives to solve challenges that were being encountered by many teams adopting Scrum. These issues include:
- Managing how product enhancements are initiated
- Giving guidance for product managers to work together to perform product portfolio management
- Managing dependencies between the software development organization and the other groups which it works with
- Managing dependencies across the software development organization
- Integrating development and QA roles to increase quality of software and eliminate waste
- Deciding on engineering practice standards across software development teams
The first few of these challenges are outside of the scope of Scrum while Scrum itself provides little insight to the others. While Scrum does an excellent job at improving the productivity of the software development team, it lends little guidance beyond the team or the project the team is working on. Scrum# extends Scrum by adding the enterprise view of Lean Thinking and the technical knowledge of Emergent Design. This gives Scrum practitioners the tools to use to extend Scrum from the team to the enterprise while giving guidance to the technical skills needed to accomplish iterative development
You can learn more about Scrum# by reading from our upcoming book Lean Software Development: Scaling Agile to the Enterprise
Selected Chapters from Lean Software Development: Scaling Agile to the Enterprise are available in our Resources area.
Listen to recorded sessions from the Scrum# Webinar Series.