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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?

Resources by Geoff

Scrum at Man Investments
Presented at the 2008 Scrum Gathering in Stockholm.

Recent Comments by Geoff

On The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Scrum
Hits the right notes Paul - nice analogy
On Priority Markets
Thanks Andy Most of the credit should go to Jason and it is quite a simple process that can be supported by tools as simple as a whiteboard/spreadsheet/wiki.
On Priority Markets
Thanks for the comments Jeff & Jeff. Jeff H - I would have no problem with someone representing the dev team and bidding on things. However, I would say this would be something I would favour less than making the Product Owner aware of some of ...

 

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