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		<title>If you&#8217;re always late, a faster car won&#8217;t help</title>
		<link>http://www.ufunctional.com/2010/03/02/if-youre-always-late-a-faster-car-wont-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:21:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Why were they late for the meeting?
A: They didn&#8217;t leave soon enough.
But&#8230;they got stopped by a train, and they remembered that they needed to pick up a loaf of bread, and&#8230;they have a slow car!
Details like speed limits and the police aside, what do the car, and the bread, and the train have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UW-Milwaukee CIO on Project Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a podcast interview with ZDNet “IT Project Failures” columnist Michael Krigsman,  Bruce Maas, CIO of the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee sees the roots of success or failure early in project initiation. In his experience, successful project set-up establishes:

Relationships
Shared vocabulary
Shared definition of success

For going on ten years, I&#8217;ve specialized in project set-up. It&#8217;s part business and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Function Points and Agile Methods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep getting a trickle of traffic from this post I made on an InfoQ forum back in July, so I really ought to write more on the topic (I finally did). But for now, here&#8217;s the comment that continues to spark interest.
Maybe outsiders see the lack of OUTWARD-FACING metrics, that can be compared across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If software estimators ran the National Hurricane Center</title>
		<link>http://www.ufunctional.com/2008/08/29/if-software-estimators-ran-the-national-hurricane-center/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was writing this, soon-to-be Hurricane Gustav of 2008 was intensifying near Jamaica, and workers were already being evacuated from oil platforms in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This was causing a loss of production (and profits) for those producers, and driving an increase in the price of oil on world markets.
Evacuating the offshore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Setup Advice</title>
		<link>http://www.ufunctional.com/2008/08/18/project-setup-advice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just posted a comment on requirementsnetwork.com that I thought was a pretty good summary of how I&#8217;ve learned to set up smallish (under 1000 function points) projects. It&#8217;s called Analysis and Design Responsibilities &#8212; Coping with Scope Creep (and other perils of contracting).
I&#8217;m working on some real articles about this for the Wisconsin Technology [...]]]></description>
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