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by Peter Schuh

Peter Schuh

peterschuhbookA traditional-sounding name for a blog about agile processes, but let's face it - that's the stuff our customers grade us on.

Do we work with them to identify, assess, and plan functionality in a practical and predictable manner? And do we communicate on the details, report fictionless status, and deliver the goods when we said we would? This blog is about using agile practices and techniques to plan and deliver in real world environnents.



More Adventures in UAT: The User Decides When it’s Done

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Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:08
The two-headed, three-armed beast is slain. (See my previous post if you don’t get this reference.) An interesting question arose the week before we began UAT. How do we decide when UAT is done? There were several proposed answers to this. When all the test cases pass. When there are no open issues remaining. When there are no critical open [...]

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Warning: Big UAT May Grow Second Head and Sprout Third Arm

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Monday, 13 April 2009 10:55
At present, I am watching a release cycle lumber into its fourth week of user acceptance testing (UAT). This release is the first tangible deliverable after five months of work by an out-sourced vendor. The release plan - as developed by the vendor - included one week of QA (stomped) and one week of UAT (clobbered). [...]

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Maturity Models Miss the Point

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Sunday, 05 April 2009 05:05
Scott Ambler started a minor brouhaha a couple weeks back when he rolled out his first draft of an Agile Process Maturity Model (APMM). I’m not stepping in to evaluate the proposal or the rebuttals because I believe that level of the discussion largely misses the point. I’d prefer to rebut the whole conversation by reiterating [...]

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Costco’s Oxymoron Cash Back Coupon Policy

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Wednesday, 01 April 2009 13:24
I must thank Costco for making me realize there’s a whole category of topics I need to keep an eye out for around oxymoron process (or, in this case, oxymoron policy). As I’m sure some readers have witnessed, Costco really applies the hard sell on their executive membership, jumping you at the register with high tech [...]

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Prioritization Is Not a Mundane Exercise

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Monday, 30 March 2009 11:34
The Backstory The other day, I was having a conversation with several people about culling a 200+ item backlog for a legacy application that is being sunset (and the successor of which is already live in some capacity). A business person was arguing that we needed to take the entire backlog into a meeting to vet [...]

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