The Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) with Nexus course is designed as an activity-based workshop where participants develop a collection of skills that can be applied to overcome challenges when scaling Scrum. The lightweight Nexus Framework™, minimally extends the Scrum Framework to help solve dependency and collaboration challenges of cross-team work.
Even after achieving success with Scrum, teams are often limited by the value they can create within the broader organisation. They find themselves needing to expand, or scale, to a group of Scrum Teams working together. And in the journey to do so, they frequently encounter challenges with cross-team dependencies, self-management, transparency and accountability.
Heavy-weight scaling methodologies often add overhead that in fact slows down teams and distracts from the essence and benefits of Scrum, self-management and agility. The lightweight Nexus Framework™ on the other hand, minimally extends the Scrum Framework to include ways that help solve the dependency and collaboration challenges of cross-team work. Since Nexus enhances the foundational elements of Scrum, it reinforces the benefits of Scrum while also being familiar to those that have used Scrum.
The Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) with Nexus course is designed as an activity-based workshop where participants develop a collection of skills that can be applied to overcome challenges when scaling Scrum. Course participants will work together in a Nexus to organise 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.
Participants of the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) with Nexus course will develop an understanding of how to launch, structure, organise, and manage a large Agile project using Scrum. They will leave the course with a toolbox of techniques for identifying and overcoming common scaling challenges.
Participants will leave this course with the ability to:
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:
Note that 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-recognised SPS certification requires a minimum passing score of 85% and involves understanding of the Nexus Framework, knowledge from the course and of Scrum.
An advanced Scrum Master course, designed by Scrum Masters, for Scrum Masters.
Master the Product Owner stances, expand your Product Management Skills and understand how to deliver more value to your stakeholders.
Get an overview of the different approaches in scaling Scrum to govern and achieve product delivery across multiple dependant teams.