4PLANNING IN NEXUS

Coordinating work across multiple Scrum Teams can be confusing and chaotic without a systematic planning approach, as the team quickly discovered. When more than one team works on a Product Backlog, the overhead of coordinating between teams can grow until it dramatically slows progress. A Nexus uses a variety of practices to reduce complexity and the overhead of coordinating multi-team development.

CONSOLIDATING AND VALIDATING THE PRODUCT BACKLOG

The Scrum Teams come together with the Product Owner to consolidate their separate work into a single prioritized Product Backlog. This takes a bit of effort, since they’ve gone a little off track in each of their separate backlogs, adding features that made sense in isolation ...

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