Changes Boost Clarity, Emphasize Criticality of Done at Scale and Extend the Worldwide Reach of Nexus
Boston – January 17, 2018 – Scrum.org, the mission-based organization dedicated to improving the profession of software delivery through training, certification assessments and community, today announced that it has made updates to the Nexus Guide, the body of knowledge for using its Nexus framework to scale Scrum. The Nexus Guide was initially released in August 2015.
The updates, which were determined in part through the Scrum community feedback via the Scrum Guide User Voice website, the Scrum.org community and its Professional Scrum Trainers (PSTs), were announced and published today by Scrum.org. An emphasis on increasing clarification around the Nexus Integration Team and the purpose of its role, asserting the importance of transparency at scale for integration and defining when “Done” is at scale are some of the major changes Scrum practitioners will find in the updated version of the Nexus Guide.
In addition, the Nexus Guide now includes a Creative Commons license, which will allow teams and organizations, globally, to reuse the guide’s content and broaden its reach. In conjunction with the updated guide, Scrum.org has released a new book, The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum: Continuously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams, available now.
“We are excited to see the changes in Nexus,” said Lee Cunningham, Sr. Director of Enterprise Agile Strategy at CollabNet. “Organizations using the Nexus framework will enjoy the full support of VersionOne Lifecycle, which provides unmatched visibility and collaboration at scale.”
As organizations began adopting the Scrum framework and growing from single Scrum Teams to multiple Scrum Teams working together to deliver an integrated product, Scrum co-creator and Scrum.org founder Ken Schwaber, along with the Scrum.org community, created Nexus. They did so to enable them to more easily develop and sustain scaled product and software development initiatives using Scrum. Working with organizations implementing Nexus, they learned how Nexus is used, and the difficulties and successes that drove direct feedback leading to this revision.
“Nexus enables multiple Scrum Teams to work together to deliver an integrated increment one or more times per Sprint, because most scaled efforts delay integration. And that’s what fails,” said Schwaber. “It takes what’s already in place and successful in a team’s implementation of Scrum and extends it. Nexus is essentially just Scrum. It can fit the needs of pre-existing Scrum Teams and enable them to work better together, making it the preferred option for scaling Scrum.”
Nexus has become a globally accepted and used framework for scaling Scrum, with more than 40 Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Professional Scrum Trainers qualified to teach Nexus worldwide. Scrum.org offers Nexus training and certification with its Scaled Professional Scrum With Nexus course and certification exam. Patricia Kong, Scrum.org Product Owner of Enterprise Solutions and co-creator of Nexus, will provide an overview of the Nexus framework and its updates in a webinar on February 14, 2018.
The Nexus Guide can be found at https://www.scrum.org/resources/nexus-guide and is available in 30 languages today. Offered for license under the Attribution Share-Alike license of Creative Commons, its copyright allows for reuse as long as it is credited back.
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