Bound to Serve (Nexus)
When the cruel and manipulative Clive offers her a means of helping him, on condition that she becomes his slave for three weeks, she does not hesitate, and is soon signed over to him. She is then handed over to Lynne, her former mistress for further, more severe trai Caroline West is facing up the absence of her master, Liam, as he battles to save himself from bankruptcy. She is then handed over to Lynne, her former mistress for further, more severe training -- treatment which Caroline soon finds is more and more to her liking.
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Nexus is a framework for developing and sustaining scaled product and software delivery initiatives. It uses Scrum as its building block. This Guide contains the definition of Nexus. This definition consists of Nexus roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that bind them together. Ken Schwaber and Scrum. The Nexus Guide is written and provided by them.
Nexus is a framework consisting of roles, events, artifacts, and rules that bind and weave together the work of approximately three to nine Scrum Teams working on a single Product Backlog to build an Integrated Increment that meets a goal. The work must be organized and sequenced, the dependencies resolved, and the outcomes staged. Many developers have used the Scrum framework to work collectively to develop and deliver an Increment of working software. However, if more than one Scrum Team is working off the same Product Backlog and in the same codebase for a product, difficulties often arise.
If the developers are not on the same collocated team, how will they communicate when they are doing work that will affect each other? If they work on different teams, how will they integrate their work and test the Integrated Increment? These challenges appear when two Scrum Teams are integrating their work into a single increment, and become significantly more difficult when three or more Scrum Teams integrate their work into a single increment. These dependencies are related to: When software delivery using Scrum is scaled, these dependencies of requirements, domain knowledge, and software artifacts should drive the organization of the Development Teams.
To the extent that it does, productivity will be optimized. Nexus is a process framework for multiple Scrum Teams working together to create an Integrated Increment. Nexus is consistent with Scrum and its parts will be familiar to those who have used Scrum. As displayed in the graphic, Nexus consists of: A Nexus consists of multiple cross-functional Scrum Teams working together to deliver a potentially releasable Integrated Increment at least by the end of each Sprint.
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Based on dependencies, the teams may self-organize and select the most appropriate members to do specific work. Nexus roles, events, and artifacts inherit the purpose and intent attributes of the corresponding Scrum roles, events, and artifacts, as documented in the Scrum Guide. All roles for members of the Scrum Teams are prescribed in the Scrum Guide. The Nexus Integration Team consists of: If this is the case, they must give priority to their work on the Nexus Integration Team; membership in the Nexus Integration Team takes precedence over individual Scrum Team membership.
This preference helps ensure that the work to resolve issues affecting many teams has priority. Composition of the Nexus Integration Team may change over time to reflect the current needs of a Nexus. Common activities the Nexus Integration Team might perform include coaching, consulting, and highlighting awareness of dependencies and cross-team issues.
It might also perform work from the Product Backlog. The Scrum Teams address integration issues within the Nexus. The Nexus Integration Team provides a focal point of integration for the Nexus. They should use bottom-up intelligence from the Nexus to achieve resolution. A Nexus works off a single Product Backlog, and as described in the Scrum framework, a Product Backlog has a single Product Owner who has the final say on its contents. The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work performed and integrated by the Scrum Teams in a Nexus.
Decisions made based on the state of Nexus artifacts are only as effective as the level of artifact transparency. The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product and the work performed and integrated by the Scrum Teams in a Nexus. If they work on different teams, how will they integrate their work and test the Integrated Increment? The Product Owner is accountable for managing the Product Backlog so that maximum value is derived from the Integrated Increment created by a Nexus. Write a customer review. Paperback , pages. Melinda Maiden added it Feb 16,
The Product Owner is accountable for managing the Product Backlog so that maximum value is derived from the Integrated Increment created by a Nexus. How this is done may vary widely across organizations, Nexuses, Scrum Teams, and individuals. The Scrum Master in the Nexus Integration Team has overall responsibility for ensuring the Nexus framework is understood and enacted.
The Nexus Integration Team consists of professionals who are skilled in the use of tools, various practices, and the general field of systems engineering. Additionally, the Nexus Integration Team coaches the individual Scrum Teams on the necessary development, infrastructural, or architectural standards required by the organization to ensure the development of quality Integrated Increments. The duration of Nexus events is guided by the length of the corresponding events in the Scrum Guide.
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They are time-boxes in addition to their corresponding Scrum events. Refinement of the Product Backlog at scale serves a dual purpose.
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It helps the Scrum Teams forecast which team will deliver which Product Backlog items, and it identifies dependencies across those teams. This transparency allows the teams to monitor and minimize dependencies. Refinement of Product Backlog Items by the Nexus continues until the Product Backlog Items are sufficiently independent to be worked on by a single Scrum Team without excessive conflict. The number, frequency, duration and attendance of Refinement is based on the dependencies and uncertainty inherent in the Product Backlog. Product Backlog items pass through different levels of decomposition from very large and vague requests to actionable work that a single Scrum Team could deliver inside a Sprint.
Refinement is continuous throughout the Sprint as necessary and appropriate. Product Backlog refinement will continue within each Scrum Team in order for the Product Backlog items to be ready for selection in a Nexus Sprint Planning event. The Product Owner provides domain knowledge and guides selection and priority decisions. The Product Backlog should be adequately refined with dependencies identified and removed or minimized prior to Nexus Sprint Planning. During Nexus Sprint Planning, appropriate representatives from each Scrum Team validate and make adjustments to the ordering of the work as created during Refinement events.
All members of the Scrum Teams should participate to minimize communication issues. The Scrum Teams should continue to share newly found dependencies with other Scrum Teams in the Nexus. New dependencies may emerge during Nexus Sprint Planning. They should be made transparent and minimized. The sequence of work across teams may also be adjusted. An adequately refined Product Backlog will minimize the emergence of new dependencies during Nexus Sprint Planning.
All Product Backlog items selected for the Sprint and their dependencies should be made transparent on the Nexus Sprint Backlog. The Nexus Sprint Goal is an objective set for the Sprint. The Nexus Daily Scrum is an event for appropriate representatives from individual Development Teams to inspect the current state of the Integrated Increment and to identify integration issues or newly discovered cross-team dependencies or cross-team impacts.
The individual Scrum Teams then take back issues and work that were identified during the Nexus Daily Scrum to their individual Scrum Teams for planning inside their individual Daily Scrum events. The Nexus Sprint Review is held at the end of the Sprint to provide feedback on the Integrated Increment that the Nexus has built over the Sprint and to adapt the Product Backlog if needed.
It may not be possible to show all completed work in detail. Techniques may be necessary to maximize stakeholder feedback. The Nexus Sprint Retrospective is a formal opportunity for a Nexus to inspect and adapt itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint to ensure continuous improvement. It consists of three parts: Because they are common scaling dysfunctions, every Retrospective should address the following subjects: For the questions above, address if necessary: Artifacts represent work or value to provide transparency and opportunities for inspection and adaptation, as described in the Scrum Guide.