Today, organizations want to scale Scrum to ever larger and more complex projects, driving the benefits of agility throughout the enterprise. But most conventional solutions to scaling agility have added complexity and deviated from the principles that make Scrum so attractive. The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum introduces a better approach, reflecting the authors' many years of applying and scaling Scrum in multiple industries.
Three leading Scrum.org experts introduce the Nexus Framework, showing how it enables smooth integration among multiple Scrum teams, as well as highly-effective collaboration with non-Scrum teams working on the same project. Drawing on their immense experience, they explain what Nexus is, how it works, and how it solves agile scalability problems that have bedeviled organizations for years. Next, they offer start-to-finish guidance for applying Nexus Framework principles throughout your own organization. You will walk through forming a Nexus, organizing work in a Nexus environment, managing and enabling a Nexus, and much more-all you need to succeed with Scrum in even the most challenging global projects.
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Kurt Bittner has more than 35 years of experience helping teams to deliver software in short feedback-driven cycles, as a developer, as a product manager, and product owner; as an industry analyst; and as an organizational change agent. He is the author of three other books on software engineering, many blogs and articles, and is a frequent speaker at conferences.
Patricia Kong is a key contributor to the Nexus framework and the Evidence-Based Management framework. She led product development, product management, and marketing for several early-stage companies in the US and Europe, and worked in business development and engagement management for Forrester Research. She is fluent in four languages.
Dave West is the CEO and Product Owner at Scrum.org. He is a frequent keynote at major industry conferences and is a widely read author of books, blogs, articles, and research reports. He has led both product development and consulting organizations for multi-national organizations.
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Authors xix
Chapter 1: Introduction to Scaling Agile 1
Why Agile? 2
Why Scrum? 2
Why Nexus? 5
Simplicity Is the Key to Scaling 6
Chapter 2: Introducing Nexus 7
What Is Nexus? 7
Nexus Extends Scrum 8
The Nexus Integration Team 10
Nexus Events 12
Nexus Artifacts 17
What Do You Need to Get Started with Nexus? 19
Closing 20
Chapter 3: Forming a Nexus 21
Evolving a Cross-functional Team 24
Growing a Nexus 29
Forming the Nexus Integration Team 32
How Does a Nexus Work? 34
Chapter 4: Planning in Nexus 35
Consolidating and Validating the Product Backlog 35
Planning a Sprint in a Nexus 47
Closing 55
Chapter 5: Running a Sprint in Nexus 57
The Nexus Daily Scrum 58
Providing Transparency Inside and Outside the Nexus 61
Nexus Sprint Retrospective 68
Closing 73
Chapter 6: Evolving the Nexus 75
Optional Practice: Organizing Scrum Teams around Features 77
Optional Practice: Managing Code Like an Open-Source Project 78
Optional Practice: Organizing Teams around Personas 81
Expanding the Nexus Integration Team 83
Updating and Refining the Product Backlog 83
Nexus Sprint Planning, Revisited 85
The Nexus Daily Scrum, Take Two 86
The Nexus Sprint Review, Take Two 88
The Nexus Sprint Retrospective, Take Two 89
Closing 96
Chapter 7: The Nexus in Emergency Mode 97
Product Backlog Refinement, Take Three 99
Nexus Sprint Planning, Take Three 102
The Nexus Daily Scrum, Take Three 108
What to Do When the Nexus Starts to Struggle 110
The Nexus (Pseudo) Sprint Review and Retrospective 118
Closing 119
Chapter 8: Retrospective on the Nexus Journey 121
What Worked Well 122
Areas for Improvement 126
What's Next? 132
Closing 133
Glossary 135
Index 143
