Joe Krebs speaks with Marc Loeffler about his new book Improving Agile Retrospectives, passion and how this all relates to scaled distributed teams.

This is the audio version of the Nexus Guide, version January 2018 read by Jochen (Joe) Krebs for Scrum.org. Nexus is based on the Scrum Framework and uses an iterative and incremental approach to scaling software and product development. Nexus augments Scrum minimally with one new role and some expanded events and artifacts. The Nexus Framework was created by Ken Schwaber, co-creator of Scrum, and was released by Scrum.org, along with a body of knowledge, the Nexus Guide, in 2015 and updated in 2018. It preserves Scrum. As Ken describes it, “Nexus is the exoskeleton of Scrum.”

Joe Krebs speaks with Patricia Kong and Kurt Bittner about Nexus. Both, Patricia and Kurt, are with Scrum.org and have recently released a book about Nexus with the title: "The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum: Continously Delivering an Integrated Product with Multiple Scrum Teams". Almost at the same time, the new Nexus Guide was released, too. Two very good reasons to talk more about Nexus. 

We talked about language changes in the new Nexus Guide, the role of the Nexus Integration team and most importantly when scaling makes sense in the first place. You will hear about how Nexus differs to some of the known approaches in the industry (e.g. Scrum of Scrum's) and how a framework for scaling can tackle the complexity of large Scrum programs better. 

Both authors share the outline of their book and how a fictional company steps through typical challenges when going from a single to a multi-team Scrum.

Joe Krebs speaks with Ken Schwaber about Scaling and the challenges that comes with it. Evidence shows that large product development efforts are more likely to fail than smaller ones. In the context of Scrum, he takes a perspective of integration work which is often the root cause of scaled efforts.

Joe Krebs speaks with Scott Ambler about Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), his most recent work and contribution to the agile process world