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		<title>Reinvent!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, I read a passage in the Steve Jobs Bio recounting a conversation between Steve and Mike Markkula as Steve was contemplating his return to Apple.  The passage was about reinventing a company, and struck me as very poignant as I had just spoken to my team a few weeks ago at our 2012 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading through a talent crunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday, an article appeared in our local paper that has everyone buzzing over a talent shortage in Austin. I agree a talent crunch may be looming in the near term, and we&#8217;ve been working to prepare for it. Rather than describe some of our recruiting strategies here for continued growth through this crunch, I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Devops &#8211; the challenges go deep</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, one of my team members forwarded me a link to this blog by Savio Rodrigues, entitled Why devops is no silver bullet for developers.  It&#8217;s a well written blog and Savio makes some good points, namely that environments that the Devops team hopes to build on need to be standardized. He comes so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is unquestionably one of my favorite times of the year &#8211; surrounded by family and tradition, all the memories of Thanksgivings past flood back over me.  I am so Thankful for my amazing family, that I have been able to celebrate another year full of joy and challenges, seeing my daughters grow up and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching the Summit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was an especially good day.  Few things can compare to seeing the combined efforts of a large team who has worked so hard together towards a shared vision finally reach that goal.  Like hikers on a long trek finally reaching the summit, today we took time to survey the terrain we conquered, thought a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lesson in mis-management, PlayStation3</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 14:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is fascinating; I just couldn&#8217;t stop reading it:  http://www.neowin.net/news/the-turbulant-times-of-the-playstation-3. I have a lot of respect for Sony, but this is a classic story of the downside of closed systems, blunders that are so easy to make when trying to lock down proprietary systems, and the exact wrong way to respond to the market.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sprint Complete!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a prior post, I wrote about the relentless pace at which our Agile development moves, especially as it is teamed with delivery of software as a service (SaaS).  One of the consequences of this speed of constant delivery is that there’s never time to go back and “clean up” any of those important but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smelling the roses at 80 mph</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 19:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my day off today, I find myself contemplating how little time there is to smell the roses (and write blog posts).  We have so tuned our processes that really there is no downtime.  It turns out that when you add Agile development processes to delivering software as a service (SaaS), what you achieve is [...]]]></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>Global Competitve Implications of Cloud Computing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you can tell by the frequency of my posts, things have been very busy at work &#8211; no complaints though, I know of friends and associates that would like to have such a problem. I wanted to follow up on one of the thoughts in the prior post regarding the global ramifications of effect [...]]]></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>Thoughts from the Colonel on Veteran&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran&#8217;s Day was this week and I received an email from my Dad, the Colonel, that I wanted to share with everyone.  No, it has nothing to do with technology, but it has everything to do with being an American, and being grateful.  Things that I believe are in short supply these days. &#8220;Each year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Heroes of Ike</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just returned from Smith Point Texas where we witnessed feats of ordinary heroism that warrant recording here.  Lets start with Fred, president of the volunteer fire department, and his wife Jennifer, who the next day after the storm return to Ike&#8217;s bullseye to assess the damage, and took pictures of everyone&#8217;s home and posted [...]]]></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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