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 …
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 …
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 …
