Scaled Professional Scrum

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 organize 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 maximize the value of your software development initiative.

In SPS, you will be introduced to the Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS) framework and walk through forming and managing a Nexus, the core development unit of SPS. This experience will help you understand the techniques, philosophies, and challenges that Ken Schwaber, Jeff Sutherland, and Scrum.org have learned through years of formulating and coaching scaled Scrum projects.

Learning Objectives

• The new roles, artifacts and events you need to scale successfully
• How to organize several teams working on the same product so efforts and productivity are optimized
• Practices that will help your teams build an integrated software product efficiently
• Techniques to detect irregularities and how to address them appropriately
• Challenges you may encounter in large-scale development initiatives and how to get back on track

Audience

SPS is targeted at development leads and managers and anyone else involved in formulating, participating or managing scaled Scrum product development. Organizations are encouraged to send a team of people that will be (or already are) running large Scrum initiatives.

It is especially oriented to those who:

• Already are effectively running small Scrum projects
• Want to apply multiple Scrum teams to develop a large system or product
• Managing scaled projects
• Struggling with scaled projects

Section 1: Nexus Introduction, Theory and Principles

* Predictive versus empirical approaches
* What is the Nexus
* Nexus roles, events, and artifacts
* Nexus integration team
* Nexus sprint retrospectives
* Related practices

Section 2: The Nexus in Action

* The Effect of dependencies
* Feature teams
* Nexus sprint planning
* Product backlog refinement in the Nexus
* Related practices

Section 3: Mapping the Nexus

* Reporting progress
* Improving performance
* Adding more teams
* Nexus health checks
* Related practices

Section 4: Agile Planning at Scale

* Determining the next product generation a product
* Determining a business model
* Driving a product backlog from a vision
* Value driven backlog creation

Section 5: Nexus+, Scaling beyond Nexus

* Large scale development
* Nexus+
* Scaling options
* Related practices

Hotel Houten
Hoofdveste 25
3992 DH Houten – Utrecht