Scaled Professional Scrum
The Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) with Nexus 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.
Course Learning Objectives
- Identify typical challenges in scaling, and learn principles and techniques for overcoming them.
- Understand how to find the scale that works best for your organization and processes, including when to reduce or “de-scale”.
- Experience the negative impact of cross-team dependencies on value delivery at scale.
- Learn how identify, visualize, minimize and remove dependencies through cross-team refinement.
- Learn how the Nexus framework extends and reinforces the key principles of Scrum to enable value delivery at scale.
- Experience the Nexus framework in action – including the events, accountabilities and artifacts.
- Experience techniques for organizing teams, organizing the work and running a Nexus.
- Learn how to deliver value across the whole Nexus instead of optimizing the work of the individual teams.
The TOC for the course is:
- Introduction to Nexus:
- Organizing the Teams in Nexus:
- Organizing the Work in Nexus:
- Executing in Nexus:
- Managing the Nexus:
1. Why Scaling
2. Roles, Events, and Artifacts in Nexus
1. Scaling strategies.
2. Nexus Integration Team.
3. Role of PO & SM in Nexus.
1. Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog in Nexus.
2. DoD in Nexus.
3. Product Backlog Refinement.
1. Nexus Sprint Planning.
2. Nexus Daily Scrum.
3. Nexus Sprint Review.
4. Nexus Sprint Retrospective.
1. Managing Dependencies.
2. Metrics & Measurements.
3. Offshore and Onshore.
4. De-Scaling.
This course is appropriate for experienced Scrum professionals that are interested in learning how multiple Scrum Teams can work together to deliver a single product. It is ideal for:
- Scrum Masters with strong experience in their role that are interested in helping their organizations scale from one Scrum Team working on a product to several Scrum Teams working on a product.
- Scrum Team members (Developers and Product Owners) who want to understand how to scale with Nexus or who are joining an organization using Nexus.
- Agile Coaches with strong experience with Scrum that are looking to learn how to use the Nexus framework.
- Department managers seeking to understand the difficulties their teams experience when working together.
This course is not suitable for professionals with little Scrum knowledge or experience.
All participants completing the Scaled Professional Scrum course will receive a password to attempt the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) assessment. SPS class participants who attempt the SPS assessment within 14 days of receiving their free password and do not score at least 85% will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost. The industry-recognized SPS certification requires a minimum passing score of 85% and involves understanding of the Nexus Framework, knowledge from the course and of Scrum.
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