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Scaling Scrum with Nexus

A framework to help organizations scale Scrum

Why Scale Scrum with Nexus?

Scrum is a simple framework for delivering products using an empirical approach in which teams deliver value in small increments, inspect the results, and adapt their approach as needed based on feedback. It consists of a small set of events, accountabilities, and artifacts, bound together by practices, and enlivened by values that are the key to making it work.

Nexus builds upon Scrum’s foundation, and its parts will be familiar to those who have used Scrum. It minimally extends the Scrum framework only where absolutely necessary to enable multiple teams to work from a single Product Backlog to build an Integrated Increment that meets a goal.

A Nexus is a group of approximately three to nine Scrum Teams that work together to deliver a single product; it is a connection between people and things. Nexus seeks to preserve and enhance Scrum’s foundational bottom-up intelligence and empiricism while enabling a group of Scrum Teams to deliver more value than can be achieved by a single team. It does this by helping these teams to reduce the complexity created by cross-team dependencies that they encounter as they collaborate to deliver an integrated, valuable, useful product Increment at least once every Sprint.

Case Studies

Learn more through our Scaled Professional Scrum workshops and take the free Nexus Open assessment and when you are ready, the Scaled Professional Scrum assessment for certification, where Nexus is the cornerstone.

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Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus Training

This course is designed as an activity-based workshop where students develop a collection of skills that can be applied to overcome challenges when scaling Scrum. In this two day class*, students work together in a Nexus to organize and simulate a scaled product development project. Throughout this case study based class, common challenges in scaling are presented and more than fifty practices for overcoming them are revealed. Some of these practices rely on what we already know about Scrum and Nexus, and some are complementary techniques that members of the Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainer (PST) community have found to be successful while helping their clients scale Scrum.

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Where to Find More

There are many resources including videos, blog articles and more related to Nexus. Go to the Resource Center and to find more.