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 …
Coaching patterns
As we get the opportunity to work with more people in more organisations helping them transform their world of work, two things stand out again and again: Scrum teams need both a full-time and committed Product Owner and ScrumMaster to become high-performing. To think that …
A proposed taxonomy for technical debt
A few weeks ago someone had a fantastic post on Refactoring entitled, “You keep using that word, I’m not sure it means what you think it means“. I’ve started to get the feeling that this true for Technical Debt also. Last week the always (in)credible …
Using Open Space as a retrospective format
I was lucky enough to attend the Orlando Scrum Gathering in March this year, and even luckier to hear Harrison Owen talk about Open Space and then to have him facilitate the Open Space at the Gathering. As he was introducing the days event, I …
Do Better Scrum
As a SUGSA Scrum Day sponsor I distributed a little booklet I compiled. I titled it “Do Better Scrum”. Since then several people has asked me for copies. And Tobias Meyer was kind enough to suggest several improvements. So here is the second edition which …
