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		<title>Guidance on Agile Project Set-Up from the Agile Expert for PMI&#8217;s LEAD CoP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who wonder how to mesh Agile with a portfolio management or gating process will find some help in Agile Idea Qualification and Project Initiation, an engaging, 50-minute webinar by Sally Elatta. Sally highlights the similarities between Agile and Lean. I wholeheartedly agree with her that the jelled, multi-functional team (BA, DBA, UI/UX, programmer, QA), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Basketball, Horse, and Software Project Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bad basketball player—pathetically bad. I was too bad even for scrub-team intramural basketball. But I played a lot of “Horse” on the hoop on the garage. (If you know Horse, skip this paragraph). In Horse, the first player calls a shot. If doesn&#8217;t make it, the next player calls a shot, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison Area Business Consultants, Thursday 10/14</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert’s speaking on “The Software-Intensive Business—What every non-techie needs to know about computer and web programming for profit (and fun)&#8221; at the Madison Area Business Consultants monthly meeting on Thursday, October 14th, MG&#38;E Innovation Center, 7:30 AM (in the morning).]]></description>
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		<title>Deniability and Software–Ouch!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve long told my customers that big waterfall software specs are more like insurance policies than blueprints, especially when I hear the phrase “sign-off” more than once a week. They are part of Covey the Younger’s Trust Tax. But in Deniability, Seth Godin puts it better that I ever could. “At some point, that effort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you’re always late, a faster car won’t help</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(T/F): Agile is to Software as Lean is to Manufacturing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your firm hires or contracts programmers, and your business results depend on their work (and if your business results don’t, why did you hire or contract programmers?), this question is for you. Not that I always believe Forrester, but apparently they’re calling Lean the new Business Technology Imperative at a Forrester conference in Chicago. [...]]]></description>
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