Cleared SPS on first attempt!

Congratulations  Davender Singh. I have completed PSM I last month and planning to give SPS.

Pls do share your preparation approach and also share the experience on SPS.

Shall I also complete PSPO I before attempting SPS.

Thanks!

Hello all,

I have just passed the SOPS exam with 95%.  :-)

I used this sites SPS related case studies, blogs and forum posts, as well as the 'The Nexus Framework for Scaling Scrum' book and the ScrumMasters 'Scaled Professional Scrum and Nexus – The Definitive Guide'. 

Below is a list of all the material I compiled: 

Practices (Missing numbers related to those practices that do not have any links.  Items that include hyphens indicate articles that are linked within the main article):- 

01 Forming a Nexus - Organizing Teams

• 03_Feature Teams vs Component Teams.docx
• 03-1_Organizing by Feature or Component.docx
• 03-2_Feature Teams.docx
• 04_What are Microservices Code Examples, Best Practices, Tutorials and More.docx
• 06_Personas – A Simple Introduction.docx
• 07_Common Mistakes When Scaling Scrum.docx
• 08_How+NetHealth+Used+Team+Self-Selection+to+Reorganize+Their+Scaling+Initative_Final.pdf

02 Forming a Nexus - Organizing Work

• 01_Extending Impact Mapping to Gain Better Product Insights.docx
• 02_3 Key Tactics for Scrum Teams to Connect With Customers!.docx
• 02-1_story_mapping.pdf
• 02-2_Persona-Template.pdf
• 04_Cross-Team Refinement in Nexus whitepaper_0.pdf
• 05_Product Backlog Refinement explained.docx
• 05-1_Magic Estimation Matrix – estimating effort and value in 15 minutes!.docx
• 05-2_Spike.docx
• 05-3_Story-Splitting-Cheat-Sheet.pdf
• 05-4_Elephant Carpaccio exercise.docx
• 05-5_Planning poker.docx

03 Running a Nexus

• 01_n_03_Visualizing the Nexus Sprint Backlog.pdf
• 04_Sprint Review Much More Than Just A Demo .docx
• 09_n_14_n_15_What DevOps Taught Me About Agile .docx
• 10_The Product Owner Role delegated to the team!.docx
• 11_DevOps Cake ! .docx
• 12_Test cases as part of the staged deployment process.docx
• 13_Feature Toggles (aka Feature Flags).docx
• 16_Are sprint length for all the scrum teams in a Nexus of same duration.docx
• 20_Inner source.docx

04 Managing a Nexus

• 01_Visualizing a Large Product Backlog With a Treemap .docx
• 02_Release burndown chart.docx
• 02-1_Gone Are Release Planning and the Release Turndown.docx
• 03_Squad Health Check model – visualizing what to improve.docx
• 03-1a_squad-health-check-model2.pdf
• 03-1b_squad-health-check-model.pptx
• 04_World Café process.docx
• 04-1_Principles-and-Practices.pdf
• 04-2_Shifting-the-Paradigm.pdf
• 05_Open Space and Scrum .docx
• 06_Nail It Before You Scale It! .docx
• 07_Scaling, the Nexus, and Scrumbling.docx
• 08_Emerging Practices to Cheerlead Your Distributed Teams From Good to Great.docx
• 09_Distributed agile teams 8 hacks that make them work.docx
• 09-1_Remote vs. in-office software teams Which is better.docx
• 09-2_Distributed vs colocated agile teams Pros and cons.docx
• 09-3_Lessons from 7 highly successful software engineering cultures.docx
• 09-4_How to build self-organizing DevOps teams.docx
• 09-5_What is enterprise agile Exploring the benefits.docx

Case Studies

• Avanade_Scrum.org case study_FINAL.pdf
• Case-Study_Asian-Airline_Jan2017.pdf
• Case-Study_NetHealth_February2018_web.pdf
• Cathay-Pacific-Airways_Sept2018.pdf
• Home Credit Indonesia (4).pdf
• HVAC Manufacturer Case Study.pdf
• leanconf-amdocscasestudy-100422155107-phpapp01.pdf
• LogMeIn_Sept2019 (3).pdf
• LOLA Tech (4).pdf
• Security Product Company Nexus Case Study_0.pdf
• Terminales Case Study_0.pdf

General

• 10 Tips for Product Owners on Release Planning.docx
• Comparing Nexus and SAFe - Similarities, Differences, potential synergies .docx
• DaveWest-Scale-Scrum-Successfully-with-Nexus.pdf
• Effective Refinement, Part I.docx
• Enhance Agility With Refinement .docx
• F3-Program-Board.png
• Forming a Nexus.docx
• GuidingPrinciplesWhenScalingNexus.png
• How Do you Scale Agile Wait! Wrong question! .docx
• Intro to Nexus_Feb 2018.pdf
• Multi-team Backlog Refinement.docx
• Nexus In A Nutshell.docx
• Nexus-Implementation-Strategy-Download-DevCom.pdf
• NexusGuide 2021_0.pdf
• nexusguide_v1-0.pdf
• Observations on Scaled Professional Scrum and possible constraints represented by the Nexus.docx
• SAFe_5-0.PNG
• Scaled Professional Scrum with Nexus Practices.docx
• ScaleYourProduct_CesarioRamos.pdf
• Scaling Scrum to the Limit.docx
• Scaling Scrum with Nexus and Kanban .docx
• Scaling Scrum with Nexus and Scrum Studio.docx
• Scaling Scrum without crushing its soul .docx
• scalingkanbanforgoto11-v0-2-110503060044-phpapp02.pdf
• Scrum Studio A Model for Innovation Dec 2017_0.pdf
• Scrumorg-Nexus-Framework-tabloid (1).pdf
• Scrumorg-Whitepaper_Scaled_Professional_Scrum.pdf
• The Nexus Integration Team.pdf
• What exactly are we Scaling .docx
• What is enterprise agile Exploring the benefits.docx
• White_Paper_SAFe_5.0_FINAL_DIGITAL.pdf

SOPS = SPS

(New comment due to not being able to edit forum posts - technical debt).