Coordinating delivery with the Scrum of Scrums

This is the first method created to deal with scaling issues and is also the simplest. In the words of Ken Schwaber, the co-creator of Scrum:

“Scrum of Scrums are short, daily Scrum meetings at which an engineer from each team working on an integrated product gather to… keep track of progress between parts of the product so that they can more closely monitor any dependency or timing problems.”

So, a Scrum of Scrums is a regular meeting conducted by a delegation of representatives of the Scrum Teams delivering the product. During the meeting, the representatives discuss their work, coordinate overlapping delivery needs and access to shared resources, and resolve unmet dependencies. Let us consider an example, based on a product delivered by two teams, a web team and a devices team. The web team representative starts by stating that their team has almost completed the utilization reporting feature but to fully...