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		<title>Change is good</title>
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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>Affinity Estimation</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Affinity Estimating is a technique many teams use to quickly and easily estimate (in Story Points) a large number of user stories. This is a great technique if you’re just starting a project and have a backlog that hasn’t been estimated yet.&#8221; I remember this topic came up during the ScrumMaster course and I found [...]]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epiphany: a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. I&#8217;ve always struggled with accepting the concept of estimating using story points and NOT effort hours. I could never get my mind around the concept and yes, I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrum in a Nutshell</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found a nice, concise, description of SCRUM here: Scrum &#8211; a knol by Dan R Greening I found particularly interesting the first comment made that clarified my questions regarding the fundamental difference of the feature/story point estimation vs the task/hours estimation techniques. It appears that the reason is pretty much around the comfort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Sprint Planning&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was interesting&#8230; we did our first sprint planning meeting with a team of 5 people. After I&#8217;d sat with the designated Product Owner (a BA with a passion for the project) and created what I think is a sufficient product backlog,  I explained the concepts of Scrum to the team (especially around estimation and [...]]]></description>
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