Publication date : 08/27/2024

Course : Nexus, Agility at scale by the founders of Scrum

Synthesis course - 2d - 14h - Ref. NXA
Price : 1720 € E.T.

Nexus, Agility at scale by the founders of Scrum




Drawing on feedback from tens of thousands of Agile teams worldwide, the founders of Scrum have created Nexus, a simple yet powerful Framework for Agile transformation of organizations. Illustrated by numerous case studies, this course presents Nexus, how it works and how to implement it.


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Synthesis course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. NXA
  2d - 14h
1720 € E.T.




Drawing on feedback from tens of thousands of Agile teams worldwide, the founders of Scrum have created Nexus, a simple yet powerful Framework for Agile transformation of organizations. Illustrated by numerous case studies, this course presents Nexus, how it works and how to implement it.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Discover the challenges of Agility at scale
Identify organizational contexts conducive to Agility at scale
Learn how Nexus works
Find your way around the main Agile frameworks and approaches at scale
Identify practices and tools for Agility at scale with Nexus

Intended audience
CIOs, IS project directors and managers, Scrum Masters. Anyone involved in implementing Agility on a large scale.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Agile methods.

Course schedule

1
Need for effective Agility at scale

  • Limits to the industrial model of organizations.
  • The challenges of increasingly complex businesses.
  • Limits of the various classic Agile methods.
  • Extending Agility to hardware and operations.

2
Requirements for scaling up

  • Link between organizational context and steering method.
  • Behaviors and values to cultivate in teams.
  • Accompanying change, its necessity and pitfalls.
  • New roles and challenges for management in the face of ScrumBut.

3
Comparison of "Agile at scale" frameworks

  • Large-scale Scrum with LeSS.
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®).
  • DaD (Disciplined agile Delivery).
  • Comparison, advantages and limitations of frameworks on the market.

4
Introducing Nexus, the Scrum exoskeleton at scale

  • What is Nexus?
  • Roles, Nexus Integration Team, events, Nexus artifacts.
  • Nexus operating rules.
  • Discover the 50 Nexus practices.

5
Tools for Nexus-related teams

  • Bringing value to customers: personas and empathy maps.
  • Simon Sinek's "Why".
  • Customer solution-oriented practices.
  • The culture of business iteration, the "Lean Startup" by Eric Ries.
  • Business agility with the Business Model Canvas (BMC).

6
Nexus facilitators

  • Dependency management and multi-team refinement.
  • Visual progress of the Product Backlog at scale: the TreeMap.
  • "Impact Map: the deliverable objective visualization from the army.
  • Estimating value: opportunity canvas and story mapping.
  • Measuring user experience with the NetPromoter Score.

7
Nexus essential practices and tools

  • Definition of Done" to scale.
  • Continuous integration and its solutions, versioned API management.
  • Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD).
  • Test Driven Development (TDD).
  • Automated test solutions on the market.

8
Plan and trajectory: Agile at scale, Nexus, and digital transformation

  • Solow's paradox and the lessons of startup growth.
  • Digital transformation models.
  • Impact on professions: DevOps, Managers, Experts, Designers, Project Managers, etc.
  • Dealing with resistance from related teams, budgeting for Agility at scale.