A Scrum Master’s Checklist
This is an oldie, but still a goodie! Michael James, a Scrum Trainer whose knowledge I respect and whose approach to Agile I enjoy, wrote this article some years ago. I cannot count the number of wannabbee-great-Scrum Masters and doubting managers I have referred to …
Agile Leadership Development
In collaboration with our Organisational Development partner Loop Organisationsberatung in Vienna we are proud once again to offer Agile Leadership training in 2012. This year we will offer two courses, both to be run in Gauteng. The course facilitators will be organisational development consultant …
A journey of friends
As 2011 draws to a close is with considerable sadness that I bid farewell to both Carlo and Marius, who have both chosen to pursue new opportunities. Marius has taken a big leap, deciding to settle in Vancouver. Here is his story in his own …
UAT on a Scrum Team (Part 2 of 2)
In the previous blog post on this topic we covered the principles relevant to incorporating User Acceptance testers into the Scrum team. This is a complex and potentially difficult impediment at the organisational level. Assuming you’ve managed to get the testers incorporated into the team, …
UAT on a Scrum team (Part 1 of 2)
As a coach a common question I encounter, particularly during the early phase of a Scrum implementation is how to deal with the “bottleneck” that develops in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) at the end of the sprint. In most organisations UAT comes about as a …
