Author: Richard Hundhausen

Information Radiators That Actually Inform

Jul 7, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

An information radiator is any display, physical or electronic, placed somewhere visible that shows process or product information. The phrase has been around for years, but plenty of teams set one up …

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Acceptance Is Not Acceptance Testing

Jun 16, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

As I visit with software development teams, I keep running into the same confusion about the word "acceptance." Two ideas get jammed together that really shouldn't be. Let me pull them apart, because …

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Stop Using the Value Area Field

May 27, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Open a PBI work item form in the Scrum process and you'll find a field called Value Area with two options: Business and Architectural. It looks helpful. It isn't. I'd leave it alone. The problem …

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Marketplace Extensions Worth Installing on Day One

May 13, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

The Azure DevOps Marketplace boasts more than 1,200 extensions across all the services. That's a lot to wade through, and most teams either ignore it entirely or install a dozen shiny things they …

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Write Acceptance Criteria You Can Actually Test

Apr 28, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Acceptance criteria are the Product Owner's or stakeholders' definition of success for a given PBI. Most teams write them as prose, a few sentences describing what the feature should do, and then move …

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Committed vs. Forecasted: Scrum Guide Drift in Azure Boards

Apr 9, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Open a PBI in the Scrum process, walk its workflow states, and you'll hit one that hasn't aged well: Committed. It's a small word on a drop-down, and it carries a decade of disagreement. One of the …

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No Human, No Copyright: The Appeals Court Confirms It

Mar 21, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

A while back I argued that if an AI writes your code, probably nobody owns it, and that the question was still working its way through the courts. One of those courts has now answered. On March 18, …

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Stakeholder Access Is Free Transparency

Mar 20, 2025 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here's a feature teams routinely leave on the table: Stakeholder access. It's free, it's unlimited, and it gives the people around your Scrum Team a window into the work. If you care about …

Azure DevOps Scrum

Turn Acceptance Criteria Into Test Cases by Paste

Mar 3, 2025 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

You've written good acceptance criteria for a PBI. Now you want one Test Case work item per criterion so the Developers can swarm, test, and deliver in a more asynchronous way. Typing each one by hand …

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