My wife, Laura, cooks dinner nearly every night. Some nights she makes something
a bit fancier; other nights, if she’s more rushed, she cooks something simple.
But it’s always tasty, healthful, and prepared without a great deal of stress. Except
for Christmas dinner. Cooking Christmas dinner is stressful. The house is full of
guests—her parents, my parents, maybe an aunt and uncle, and a brother or sister
or two. And yet she seems to prepare more dishes than we have guests. Christmas
dinner is done at a scale unseen the rest of the year. And anything done at a larger
scale than we are accustomed to—including a software development project—is
more difficult.
Chapter Contents
- Scaling the Product Owner
- Sharing Responsibility, Dividing Functionality
- Working With a Large Product Backlog
- One Product, One Product Backlog
- Keep the Product Backlog to a Reasonable Size
- Proactively Manage Dependencies
- Do Rolling Lookahead Planning
- Hold a Release Kickoff Meeting
- Share Team Members
- Use an Integration Team
- Coordinate Work Among Teams
- The Scrum of Scrums Meeting
- Synchronize Sprints
- Scaling the Sprint Planning Meeting
- Stagger by a Day
- The Big Room
- Cultivate Communities of Practice
- Formal or Informal
- Creating an Environment for Communities to Form and Flourish
- Participation
- Scrum Does Scale
- Additional Reading