Scaled Professional Scrum course (Scrum.org) - New York, USA - 26-27th May 2016

The Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) Workshop will show you how to launch, structure, staff, and manage a large agile or Scrum project.

In this 2-day workshop you will organise and simulate a scaled software development project to learn the infrastructure, tools and practices needed for success. You will leave knowing how to scale Scrum in order to maximise the value of your software development initiative.

Course Outline

Scrum.org have spent the last two years developing a two-day workshop about scaling Scrum from one to many teams on large projects. Working with people who have actually constructed the frameworks and practices that made large projects and product initiatives work.

Ken Schwaber & Scrum.org have developed a workshop in which participants learn how to scale a project based on Scrum teams. This is not a philosophical methodology, like SAFe, but a nuts and bolts set of detailed tools and practices for your use. These practices are appended to the basic Scrum framework to create a process you can use to scale your next or current project.

We abstracted a framework for this scaling which we named Nexus. A Nexus is 3-9 Scrum teams that are working on a single Product Backlog to build an integrated increment that meets a goal. A Nexus+ is more than one Nexus interoperating to build a large product, usually integrated through a product family framework, api, or similar integrating technology.

We developed or reformulated 30+ practices, which cause the Nexus to operate predictably. During the workshop you work in teams to apply the practices on a case study. Come to this workshop if you have a project or initiative that you need to successfully scale, or one that is in trouble. We will help you through teaching, exercises, and coaching.

The audience is systems engineers, development managers, lead developers …. the people who will make this happen and have strong familiarity with modern development and Scrum. And for those that will manage the project and need to know when to step on the throttle, and when to brake.

Those of you who have invested and attempted commercial scaling methodologies such as SAFe will find this aimed at the organising and doing of scaled development. It may well fill a gap that you have noticed when you get to setting up and running your projects, programs and releases.

Workshop agenda

• The Nexus – An Introduction
• Nexus in Action – Dealing with Common Challenges
• Managing the Nexus – Healthy Scaling
• Nexus+

All participants who complete the Scaled Professional Scrum workshop receive a password to attempt the Scaled Professional Scrum assessment (SPS).

The industry-recognised SPS certification requires a minimum passing score on this rigorous assessment. Scrum.org maintains a public list with everyone holding the Scaled Professional Scrum certificate.

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