Beware the dangers of the UAT environment
In an Agile world delivery should be just like voting in Chicago, early and often . As per The Principles behind the Agile Manifesto , the first one says "Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software." (emphasis mine) A UAT environment (User Acceptance Testing) where users test the software, log bugs, wait for updates determine if they will accept the release into production, where someone outside of the Scrum Team determines when the testing is complete, prevents us from delivering the product to the end users. There are a number of reason that I have seen for why UAT environments are created 1. We need to verify that the data is being edited correctly by a tool 2. We need to make sure that this new functionality will satisfy user's needs 3. It isn't really UAT, it is just misnamed Let's address the third one first. If this "UAT" environment is where the product is staged s