The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum: Continuously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams

3FORMING A NEXUS

Now, with a basic understanding of Nexus established, we can focus on how an organization would apply Nexus to deliver a product. To provide a rich canvas for illustration, we have chosen a consumer product with hardware, embedded software, and mobile and web interfaces. Eventually, we will illustrate team distribution and multi-vendor interactions.

As we follow this fictional team on its journey, you may react as one of our colleagues did: “These teams make all the typical mistakes!” We have them do that for a reason, because you may make these same mistakes. We want to show something important—that you can make mistakes and still recover, and that the only way you will succeed is to inspect and adapt not only the product ...