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		<title>Change is good</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2010/02/03/change-is-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m often amazed at the number of dogmatic &#8220;prophets&#8221; out there when it comes to the latest fad&#8217;s of agile development. I myself am about getting productive and like to take the best of ALL worlds; change is not only inevitable but necessary, even changing of a process BUT, only if the change leads to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance appraisals, do we really care?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/12/22/performance-appraisals-do-we-really-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often wonder why companies think the current way of doing Performance Appraisals are actually effective (you know, a few times a year, you sit with your manager and he tells you what a good/bad boy you were). For me they&#8217;re unnecessary and this is why: Firstly, &#8220;appraising&#8221; someones &#8220;performance&#8221; is something that should have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But haven&#8217;t we always been working this way?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/09/03/but-havent-we-always-been-working-this-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid I had a Commodore 64 with a cassette player, awesome little machine with cool games! I decided I had to write my own game, this is where it all started some 25 odd years ago. I decided I would write a &#8220;maze-like&#8221; game where an &#8220;avatar&#8221; would navigate through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My questions on agile processes</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/07/16/my-questions-on-agile-processes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic Willemse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I have found very interesting in today&#8217;s &#8220;agile environments&#8221; is the adoption of processes. I&#8217;m caught in an endless loop on my thoughts around the place of processes and how they should fit in a team. Generally processes are put in place in order to protect the team, sort of like a safety net.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An (agile) environment&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/03/06/an-agile-environment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=46</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scrum often talks about &#8220;ideal development environments&#8221; (Mike Cohn has a nice blog post on this entitled The Ideal Agile Workspace, well worth the read) and this often excludes anything related to engineering (hardware, software etc.), for the obvious reason that Scrum does not profess to offer guidance on engineering practices (but clearly states they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do we do what we do?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/02/25/why-do-we-do-what-we-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought of doing a few short posts on the why&#8217;s of agile and specifically scrum. Product owners are driven by ROI, so why should we not adopt the same attitude regarding the various &#8220;ceremonies&#8221; and practices we adopt in our day to day agile development lives&#8230; why do I do &#60;something&#62; and what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anarchy anyone?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/02/03/anarchy-anyone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking today, while watching a team fail miserably at planning, that we all know what we would do if asked to choose between Agile or Waterfall; but what if you had to choose between &#8220;MakeItUpAsWeGoAlongNoRules&#8221;-Agile and Waterfall. In other words, &#8220;Aspects of Agile&#8221; vs Pure Waterfall. I&#8217;d have to say I&#8217;d go for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Done?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/02/done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is always a highly contentious and relative subject, what does a team mean when it&#8217;s DONE? This sort of popped into my head a while ago when I was contemplating how a person would go about making sure a team is actually performing as best they could, without interfering. My question was this, because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you really Agile?</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/11/29/are-you-really-agile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this interesting article by James Shore:The Decline and Fall of Agile which essentially talks along the subject of people claiming to be &#8220;agile&#8221; but are not really and having this potentially destroying the true &#8220;agile&#8221; drive. People should be careful that they don&#8217;t just grab at buzzwords and ideas without realizing what they&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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