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		<title>Duct Tape Programmer</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, how I love this post by Joel on The Duct Tape Programmer!  This is such a salient point that applies to so much more than the context here.  &#8220;You see, everybody else is too afraid of looking stupid because they just can’t keep enough facts in their head at once to make multiple inheritance, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pondering Programmer Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of discussion lately about measuring productivity has had me spending time I should be sleeping thinking about the same.  I love accountants and finance folks.  I find them very bright and love the way they typically approach any business discussion from the point of logic, but they can be an intractable lot as well.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Index Cards for Agile Planning Anyone?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Austin Agile development user group, AgileAustin, published a online poll of tools that teams in the local area favor for agile planning.  In response to the email announcing the poll, a couple of members emailed the list saying their favorite tool is no tool at all.  Some said index cards.  I shook [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scaling Agile Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, I have the opportunity to speak at an Rally customer success tour at the Renaissance.  Tonight, I am reflecting on the leaders I have a privilege to serve with on the panel, Israel Gat, Jack Yang, Torsten Weirch, and Eric Huddleson.  These gentlemen are all significant leaders in the Austin Community and I&#8217;m looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rally vs VersionOne Agile Planning Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, we evaluated several Agile Project Management tools.  Having used XPlanner for years, it was time for a change.  XPlanner is great in some ways &#8211; fairly lightweight and easy to use for developers.  It really falls apart though when you start to consider multiple agile teams working together to deliver a release.  It is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 20, 2007 &#8211; The Third Deadly Sin of Software Projects &#8211; Its All About the People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 02:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Third Sin of Software Projects is failing to understand its all about the people &#8211; attracting, retaining, and helping the best software development professionals available to succeed. The people on the project are the key determining factor of success. Let’s look at a few of the key factors in what we need in our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 25, 2007 &#8211; The Second Deadly Sin of Software Projects &#8211; Skipping the Must Dos</title>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/march-25-2007-the-second-deadly-sin-of-software-projects-skipping-what-you-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this business, we are all subject to schedule pressure which is essentially market pressure. This pressure is often real, coming from executive management, the board, or investors. Despite this, there are some necessary steps in the development process that can seem expedient to skip that in many cases, just shouldn&#8217;t be skipped:

Prototyping the UI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 8, 2007 &#8211; The First Deadly Sin of Software Projects &#8211; Market Focus Shifts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking about requirements makes people&#8217;s eyes glaze over, so lets ask a more poignant question. What market are we trying to win? This focuses our vision in a much more effective way. The first deadly sin of software projects lies in not asking this question. Requirements management is a fundamental necessity in software development. Changing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 2, 2007 &#8211; Prologue to Seven Deadly Sins of Software Projects</title>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/january-2-2007-prologue-to-seven-deadly-sins-of-software-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.garyallison.com/january-2-2007-prologue-to-seven-deadly-sins-of-software-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 10:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our examination of reasons why software projects fail, we start with a few basic assumptions. These seven deadly sins of software development assume that many of the fundamentals are in place: the team is staffed with trained experienced developers, you have a modern source code control system, build processes, test methodologies and automation, bug [...]]]></description>
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		<title>December 28, 2006 &#8211; The 7 Deadly Sins of Software Projects</title>
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		<comments>http://www.garyallison.com/december-28-2006-the-7-deadly-sins-of-software-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its been a very busy forth quarter rounding out 2006. Business travel has taken me to South America twice, we&#8217;ve been working on closing a number of deals, and December saw the largest number of products all go GA ever in a month at Simdesk. All these are great reasons for not keeping up with [...]]]></description>
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