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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>The chatty daily standup&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/10/13/the-chatty-daily-standup/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the &#8220;ceremonies&#8221; of Scrum (man that sounds so culty) is the &#8220;Daily Standup&#8221;, a daily planning meeting where teams realign and coordinate their efforts for the upcoming day. It&#8217;s a concise, no frills no fluff zero waste of time meeting that answers three questions: what have I done, what am I doing and [...]]]></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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=45</guid>
		<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>A new challenge&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/01/07/a-new-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=39</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is my 3rd day as an official ScrumMaster. Although the first 2 days were, well, daunting at best, today there seems to be a bit more clarity. The challenges here are similar, but still different. Resistance to adoption is coming from a different place this time. The teams seem to want to do Scrum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First Scrum Board&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/19/my-first-scrum-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=38</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This was my first attempt at a usable scrum board. There are some flaws, like the blank story card in the Product Backlog?! (only noticed this now, no idea how that got there, will have to find out) and the fact that there&#8217;s a story that has no tasks assigned to it yet is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/19/change-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year will bring a plethora of change in my life, a new company, new goals, new challenges, new ideas. I must admit I&#8217;m eagerly looking forward to this much like a new astronaut looks forward to his first space flight, nervous excitement I guess would summarize it. Along with this I&#8217;m also a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A journey&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/10/a-journey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/10/a-journey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I delve deeper and deeper into &#8220;Scrum&#8221; and read more and more blogs / papers on the subject I keep fixating on the same question&#8230; &#8220;What does it mean to be a &#8216;ScrumMaster&#8217;?&#8221;.  Yes, I know there are the standard &#8220;definitions&#8221; of it but I think it&#8217;s more than that. Personally I equate it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Affinity Estimation</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/10/affinity-estimation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/10/affinity-estimation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=34</guid>
		<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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		<title>Impediment</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/09/impediment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/09/impediment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impediment: That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. I&#8217;ve been thinking about the negative context &#8220;impediments&#8221; are sometimes set in, I don&#8217;t think impediments are negative at all, in fact quite the opposite, they are the pointers that lead you on the path of improvement, but it all depends on how you [...]]]></description>
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