Scrum Alliance -Profile: Geoff Watts

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Geoff Watts is a Certified Scrum Trainer, based in the UK offering training and coaching in Scrum. He is also acting as an agile consultant with large companies in the UK, practicing, coaching and teaching Scrum, playing a major role in, among others, British Telecom's transition to agile methods - probably the largest agile transformation in the world.

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Upcoming Courses by Geoff

Course Title	Date Range	City
Certified ScrumMaster	22-23 Mar 2010	London
Certified ScrumMaster	26-27 Apr 2010	London

Recent Articles by Geoff

Priority Markets: A Free Market Approach to Managing the Product Backlog 04 Feb 09: Maintaining a prioritised product backlog of desired functionality is a key aspect of agile software development. When working with a single product owner and a small number of backlog items, this task is easily managed. However, scaling prioritisation to multiple stakeholders and large product backlogs presents unique challenges. This paper presents a market-based approach to prioritisation that is fair, open, and scalable.
Scrum Role Playing 25 Sep 08: It is often said that to truly understand someone else, one must “walk a mile in that person’s shoes.” Similarly, taking on more than one role on a Scrum team, on a temporary basis at least, can have unexpected advantages that may offset the disadvantages.
Production Support and Scrum: How should Scrum teams plan for support? 28 Mar 08: Bugs and support issues don't always wait for a new sprint before rearing their ugly heads. What should a Scrum team do to balance feature development with support activities?