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Cleared SPS on first attempt!

Last post 07:33 am February 11, 2021 by Scott Anthony Keatinge
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07:45 pm April 13, 2018

Fellow Scrummers,

I cleared the SPS certification today (04/13/18); I had cleared PSPO I on 04/11/18 and the PSM I on 03/28/18. It feels amazing and I am truly honored to be part of the global scrum.org community!! If you want advice/ tips on the SPS preparation front, let me know and I'll be glad to help. It is fundamental to truly understand and appreciate the philosophy behind scrum. I'll respond as soon as I possibly can. 

Keep on scrummin'!

Davender


05:53 am April 15, 2018

Congratulations  Davender Singh. I have completed PSM I last month and planning to give SPS.

Pls do share your preparation approach and also share the experience on SPS.

Shall I also complete PSPO I before attempting SPS.

 

Thanks!


03:34 pm February 10, 2021

Hello all,

I have just passed the SOPS exam with 95%.  :-)

I used this sites SPS related case studies, blogs and forum posts, as well as the 'The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum' book and the ScrumMasters 'Scaled Professional Scrum and Nexus – The Definitive Guide'. 

 

Below is a list of all the material I compiled: 

Practices (Missing numbers related to those practices that do not have any links.  Items that include hyphens indicate articles that are linked within the main article):- 

01 Forming a Nexus - Organizing Teams

  • 03_Feature Teams vs Component Teams.docx
  • 03-1_Organizing by Feature or Component.docx
  • 03-2_Feature Teams.docx
  • 04_What are Microservices Code Examples, Best Practices, Tutorials and More.docx
  • 06_Personas – A Simple Introduction.docx
  • 07_Common Mistakes When Scaling Scrum.docx
  • 08_How+NetHealth+Used+Team+Self-Selection+to+Reorganize+Their+Scaling+Initative_Final.pdf

02 Forming a Nexus - Organizing Work

  • 01_Extending Impact Mapping to Gain Better Product Insights.docx
  • 02_3 Key Tactics for Scrum Teams to Connect With Customers!.docx
  • 02-1_story_mapping.pdf
  • 02-2_Persona-Template.pdf
  • 04_Cross-Team Refinement in Nexus whitepaper_0.pdf
  • 05_Product Backlog Refinement explained.docx
  • 05-1_Magic Estimation Matrix – estimating effort and value in 15 minutes!.docx
  • 05-2_Spike.docx
  • 05-3_Story-Splitting-Cheat-Sheet.pdf
  • 05-4_Elephant Carpaccio exercise.docx
  • 05-5_Planning poker.docx

03 Running a Nexus

  • 01_n_03_Visualizing the Nexus Sprint Backlog.pdf
  • 04_Sprint Review Much More Than Just A Demo .docx
  • 09_n_14_n_15_What DevOps Taught Me About Agile .docx
  • 10_The Product Owner Role delegated to the team!.docx
  • 11_DevOps Cake ! .docx
  • 12_Test cases as part of the staged deployment process.docx
  • 13_Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags).docx
  • 16_Are sprint length for all the scrum teams in a Nexus of same duration.docx
  • 20_Inner source.docx

04 Managing a Nexus

 

  • 01_Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap .docx
  • 02_Release burndown chart.docx
  • 02-1_Gone Are Release Planning and the Release Turndown.docx
  • 03_Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve.docx
  • 03-1a_squad-health-check-model2.pdf
  • 03-1b_squad-health-check-model.pptx
  • 04_World Café process.docx
  • 04-1_Principles-and-Practices.pdf
  • 04-2_Shifting-the-Paradigm.pdf
  • 05_Open Space and Scrum .docx
  • 06_Nail It Before You Scale It! .docx
  • 07_Scaling, the Nexus, and Scrumbling.docx
  • 08_Emerging Practices to Cheerlead Your Distributed Teams From Good to Great.docx
  • 09_Distributed agile teams 8 hacks that make them work.docx
  • 09-1_Remote vs. in-office software teams Which is better.docx
  • 09-2_Distributed vs colocated agile teams Pros and cons.docx
  • 09-3_Lessons from 7 highly successful software engineering cultures.docx
  • 09-4_How to build self-organizing DevOps teams.docx
  • 09-5_What is enterprise agile Exploring the benefits.docx

Case Studies

  • Avanade_Scrum.org case study_FINAL.pdf
  • Case-Study_Asian-Airline_Jan2017.pdf
  • Case-Study_NetHealth_February2018_web.pdf
  • Cathay-Pacific-Airways_Sept2018.pdf
  • Home Credit Indonesia (4).pdf
  • HVAC Manufacturer Case Study.pdf
  • leanconf-amdocscasestudy-100422155107-phpapp01.pdf
  • LogMeIn_Sept2019 (3).pdf
  • LOLA Tech (4).pdf
  • Security Product Company Nexus Case Study_0.pdf
  • Terminales Case Study_0.pdf

General

  • 10 Tips for Product Owners on Release Planning.docx
  • Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies .docx
  • DaveWest-Scale-Scrum-Successfully-with-Nexus.pdf
  • Effective Refinement, Part I.docx
  • Enhance Agility With Refinement .docx
  • F3-Program-Board.png
  • Forming a Nexus.docx
  • GuidingPrinciplesWhenScalingNexus.png
  • How Do you Scale Agile Wait! Wrong question! .docx
  • Intro to Nexus_Feb 2018.pdf
  • Multi-team Backlog Refinement.docx
  • Nexus In A Nutshell.docx
  • Nexus-Implementation-Strategy-Download-DevCom.pdf
  • NexusGuide 2021_0.pdf
  • nexusguide_v1-0.pdf
  • Observations on Scaled Professional Scrum and possible constraints represented by the Nexus.docx
  • SAFe_5-0.PNG
  • Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus Practices.docx
  • ScaleYourProduct_CesarioRamos.pdf
  • Scaling Scrum to the Limit.docx
  • Scaling Scrum with Nexus and Kanban .docx
  • Scaling Scrum with Nexus and Scrum Studio.docx
  • Scaling Scrum without crushing its soul .docx
  • scalingkanbanforgoto11-v0-2-110503060044-phpapp02.pdf
  • Scrum Studio A Model for Innovation Dec 2017_0.pdf
  • Scrumorg-Nexus-Framework-tabloid (1).pdf
  • Scrumorg-Whitepaper_Scaled_Professional_Scrum.pdf
  • The Nexus Integration Team.pdf
  • What exactly are we Scaling .docx
  • What is enterprise agile Exploring the benefits.docx
  • White_Paper_SAFe_5.0_FINAL_DIGITAL.pdf

07:33 am February 11, 2021

SOPS = SPS

(New comment due to not being able to edit forum posts - technical debt). 


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