User Acceptance Testing is where the real system meets real behavior. This is where business users challenge assumptions, highlight gaps, and expose impractical processes. Many teams treat UAT as a formality. It isn’t. It’s the first honest reflection of operational reality. If UAT becomes rushed or controlled, problems don’t disappear — they move into production.

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In my experience if UAT is the first honest reflection of operational reality, you may be in trouble. Because it’s also usually the last testing cycle that occurs before go-live and there is little time to fix or enhance anything.

My successful projects engage end users for classroom demos / informal testing as we design and build and have work completed as much as we can. And we ask client leadership to encourage the end user community to show up and participate.

The goal should be to get feedback early and often from actual end users so UAT is executed predictably and feels like a formality even if it’s not one.

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