There is no “enterprise” scrum! Scrum is scrum! Key concept is basically the KISS principle and it’s not rocket science.

First off all there is no “Enterprise Scrum” - it is the same simple, empirical framework for developing complex systems that is applied everywhere rather than just in software development.

In Schwaber’s experience the enterprise-wide roll-out of Scrum take some time. He offered the case of a 1000-developer organisation. Here, they spent six months on the roll-out (training everybody in the Scrum practices) and after that 3-5 years to implement it make it stick by iteratively removing the impediments to producing quality software in the organisation. As he said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, so this phase is all about changing people’s habits and getting the waste out of the system. During this implementation a senior management executive Scrum team is in place using Scrum to deal with the impediments and demonstrably solve the top issues as they become visible during the transition.

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By the way, here’s Edsger Dijkstra’s take on software quality.

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