Building on Scrum
Like Sutherland, Schwaber recognizes that the original Scrum Guide had a focus on creating an Agile-based development framework that installed empiricism as a means to improve the effectiveness of small Agile teams. Scrum does not specifically address the unique issues associated with scaling work across multiple teams, though Scrum has been employed effectively in large products and even enterprise-wide implementations. Ken Schwaber refers to Nexus as "acting as an "exoskeleton resting" on many Scrum teams." (Bittner et al., 2018)
The issue of using solely the Scrum Guide to scale these concepts is that there is no guidance on how to do so. As a result, organizations have had to figure out how to do this for themselves. Ken and Scrum.org addressed this issue with the introduction of the Nexus Framework, which implements roles, organizational structures, events, and artifacts to scale the original Scrum concepts. Most importantly, the Nexus...