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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>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>It&#8217;s about people&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2009/02/02/its-about-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:23:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Individuals and interactions over processes and tools&#8221; I&#8217;ve been thinking recently on the importance of people in this whole agile &#8220;thing&#8221; (for lack of a better word). I think people lose focus of the actual PEOPLE in a team and still focus on them as resources (some nice baggage from our waterfall days). Agile pushes [...]]]></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>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>Next Sprint&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/04/next-sprint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new sprint has started, with a better duration (30 days, as recommended) and with proper resource allocation. We did Sprint Planning I today and the team has committed (on their own) to a Sprint Backlog that they feel they can accomplish. Had good Product Owner involvement again which seemed to help alot. Sprint Planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/01/retrospective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/12/01/retrospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ran the first retrospective today, the team seemed a bit apprehensive but eventually started talking, but only after alot of coaxing, which for me bordered on interfering again, but what else could be done? I explained the point behind a retrospective, to see what we did well, and where we could improve; I tried to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too involved&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/11/27/too-involved/</link>
		<comments>http://www.refactor.co.za/2008/11/27/too-involved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Tonoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://refactor.co.za/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without realizing it I&#8217;ve become too involved in the team, almost interfering in the Daily Scrums I suppose. It&#8217;s difficult coming from a technical background not to want to interject and comment on what people are saying. How do you approach the scenario where you have information that may be of value to the team [...]]]></description>
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