Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus™ (SPS) Course Overview:

The Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) with Nexus course is a highly interactive two-day workshop aimed at equipping students with a diverse set of skills to tackle challenges when scaling Scrum. Through hands-on experience in a simulated scaled product development project, students collaborate within a Nexus to gain practical insights. This case study-based class exposes common scaling hurdles and unveils over fifty proven practices to address them. These practices encompass both Scrum and Nexus principles, as well as supplementary techniques adopted by Scrum.org Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs) in their successful endeavors to scale Scrum. By the end of the course, students will have the knowledge and tools needed to effectively initiate, structure, organize, and manage large Agile projects using Scrum, along with strategies to navigate and conquer typical scaling obstacles.

Intended Audience:

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.

Learning Objectives of Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus™ (SPS):

• 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