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Overview of Scrum of Scrums

Prerequisite : Scrum Software Development

It has been identified that agile being originally focused on small units which include the scrum structure and there have been quite a few trials at grading it.



In this article, we’ll cover its history, how does it work, key role and responsibility and common hazards. So, let’s start exploring the topic.

Scrum of Scrums :
Scrum of scrums is a method to scale Scrum to huge groups. In shorts, it includes coordinating the work of various scrum teams working together, by creating a larger scrum crew whose members will be regular, smaller teams.



Successful acceptance of the scrum of scrums needs that each team will be a high-performing Scrum team. It is to advise that don’t attempt to scrum in the huge until you’re doing it perfectly in the small.

The starting point for those efforts Scrum of scrums is often “embedded” into other grading approaches.

How does it work ?

Key Roles and Responsibilities :

  1. A scrum is contained of smaller units. It means that emphasizes the same roles as normal scrum.
  2. Each internal team has a delegate to visit the scrum of scrum meetings also there is a “scaled” variant of the scrum master, termed scrum of scrums master.
  3. For the proper collaboration between teams, the scrum of scrums has its reserve to keep track of obstacles.

Common hazards :
Scrum of scrums has both pros and cons. It’s not so hard to get started with at least teams those who are now making scrum successfully in the small.

It also means that scrum of scrums is responsive to most of the common downfalls of regular scrum:

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