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Someone asked me recently what where the five top reasons why companies adopt Scrum. I had difficulty answering this question, because, without doing a reasonably rigorous survey it’s difficult to provide a comprehensive answer. I do however, have some experience with companies adopting Scrum and I could provide the top five reasons that I’ve personally witnessed.
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Here’s a great article about
Meetup’s Dead Simple User Testing. What I find really interesting about the article is the attitude that testing should be more than something that’s done once before a release. Rather, it should be something that’s integrated as an ongoing activity:
This goal is to look for obvious improvements continuously, rather than running outsourced, large-N testing every eighteen months. As important, these tests turn into live task lists, not archived reports.
At the end of the article is a link to Why You Only Need to Test With 5 Users, which is also worth reading. The initial paragraph is an excellent hook:
Some people think that usability is very costly and complex and that user tests should be reserved for the rare web design project with a huge budget and a lavish time schedule. Not true. Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.
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Introducting Scrum leads to organization change. The specific details of how an organization changes is different for every organization. There is however a number of changes that most organizations will experience as they migrate to Scrum. These are the top five organizational changes that I’ve seen when implementing Scrum.
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