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Scaling frameworks

Scaling frameworks

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Scaling frameworks

- Let's take a quick look at a few popular frameworks used for scaled agile development. Nexus was developed by Ken Schwarber, co-inventor of Scrum. And it is essentially Scrum at its core. Just like Scrum, it is not prescriptive. It adds one additional artifact a few events, and one new role to Scrum. Everything else about Scrum still applies to Nexus. Nexus is an excellent example of Scrum and because it adds a few constructs to Scrum without violating any Scrum rules. Nexus' execution is like running multiple Scrum teams in parallel with special constructs and rules to synchronize their work and minimize dependencies among the teams. The teams together produce one integrated increment product at the end of each print. Nexus has a free online guide which is about 10 pages and available at scrum.org. A book on Nexus was published in December 2017 and includes an excellent case study on how Nexus was applied in developing a product with multiple Scrum teams spanning three different…

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