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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>Assembly and the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what this is?
load AX, BX
Then chances are you know how computers really work, and chances are you are, what&#8217;s the word, old?  I&#8217;m currently working on a presentation for an upcoming conference that describes how Software as a Service, cloud computing, and web services are changing the landscape for education.  The thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>force.com &#8211; cloud computing at Dreamforce</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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This week finds me at Salesforce.com&#8217;s Dreamforce show where a number of very interesting developments are coming to light.  In Marc Benioff&#8217;s keynote yesterday, he emphasized the role of cloud computing in the future of all application development, throwing jabs at Microsoft all along the way.  Benioff cast the cloud into these sets of services:

Amazon [...]]]></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>Apple’s iPhone 2.0 Announcement vs Google Android</title>
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		<comments>http://www.garyallison.com/apple%e2%80%99s-iphone-20-announcement-vs-google-android/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Apple unveiled the iPhone 2.0 device and more importantly showed the results of their SDK released just 3 months ago for iPhone. As someone who has been leading teams in building mobile applications off and on over the last 6 years, the results are really impressive. The ease of which very sophisticated applications [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.garyallison.com/march-25-2007-the-second-deadly-sin-of-software-projects-skipping-what-you-know/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/january-8-2007-the-first-deadly-sin-of-software-projects-market-focus-shifts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.garyallison.com/january-8-2007-the-first-deadly-sin-of-software-projects-market-focus-shifts/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/december-28-2006-the-7-deadly-sins-of-software-projects/</link>
		<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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		<title>August 27, 2006 &#8211; Installing Self Directed Teams</title>
		<link>http://www.garyallison.com/august-27-2006-installing-self-directed-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 03:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so your want to startup or install self-directed teams.(see a previous post on change). As with any change, this is a big challenge and there is no guarantee that it will be accepted completely by the team. Some will be uncomfortable with accepting accountability, a strong Scrum master will be needed, and some just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 26, 2006 &#8211; Power of Self Directed Teams</title>
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		<comments>http://www.garyallison.com/august-26-2006-power-of-self-directed-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2006 08:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 18 months ago, we adopted a self-directed process called Scrum in part of our development team &#8211; the part that focuses on end user applications.  Most of the team was a little apprehensive, but they are solid folks and they put it in action. 

 
Recently, we made the move to transition the whole team to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August 15, 2006 &#8211; Events vs. Commitments</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Second Law of Software Dynamics:  shipping software is a commitment, not than an event.

 
Customers generally expect once they have adopted your software or service that you are going to continue to develop it, service it, respond to their requests for tweaks, and keep up with competitive forces.  In short, they made a commitment (time, [...]]]></description>
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