Large-Scale Scrum: More with LeSS

Foreword

by Stephen Denning

Large-Scale Scrum or LeSS continues the major discoveries that are transforming the world of management by showing how to implement Agile and Scrum at scale.

In the 20^th Century, hierarchical bureaucracy enabled large groups to work together to achieve extraordinary improvements in productivity. Then the world changed. Deregulation, globalization, the emergence of knowledge work and new technology, particularly the Internet, transformed everything. Competition increased. The pace of change accelerated. Computer software enabled huge gains in productivity but in turn generated immense complexity. As power in the marketplace shifted from seller to buyer, the customer, not the firm, became the center of the commercial ...