Today, organisations 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.
Scaling Scrum with Nexus introduces a better approach, reflecting the authors’ many years of applying and scaling Scrum in multiple industries. Four 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 organisations for years. Next, they offer start-to-finish guidance for applying Nexus Framework principles throughout your own organisation. Readers will walk through forming a Nexus, organising work in a Nexus environment, managing and enabling a Nexus, and much more -- all that is needed to succeed with Scrum in even the most challenging global projects.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Ken Schwaber
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Introducing Nexus
- 3. Forming a Nexus
- 4. Organizing Work
- 5. Nexus in Action
- 6. Managing the Nexus
- 7. Enabling the Nexus
- 8. Nexus +
- 9. Glossary
- 10. References and Recommended Reading
About the Author :
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 organisational 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 organisations for multi-national organisations.
