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		<title>If you&#8217;re always late, a faster car won&#8217;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 train have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile for Business Analysts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally got around to conducting a half day of training for some local colleagues who bear the title “Business Analyst,” and whose organizations (and in some cases careers) had been shaken up by the arrival of the Agile Methods (most commonly Scrum) in the Early Majority. There were only four of us all together, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waterfall, RUP, and Agile: Which is Right for You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serhiy Kharytonov published a fine summary of software methodologies for non-technical leaders at Executive Brief. He makes several excellent observations, but he also perpetuates a destructive myth. I&#8217;ve worked with all three of Waterfall, RUP, and Agile, and here&#8217;s my take.
Excellent observations
Then, stay agile in the approach to the process itself, constantly looking back, re-evaluating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sabotage Agile, Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.ufunctional.com/2009/11/16/how-to-sabotage-agile-part-iii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third of three parts on how to sabotage Agile adoption in your company, especially for Business Analysts.
If you want Agile to succeed, don&#8217;t do this stuff.
If you want Agile to fail because you&#8217;re benefitting from the status quo, good luck with that, too. Just make sure you have each item covered, especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sabotage Agile, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.ufunctional.com/2009/11/12/how-to-sabotage-agile-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got the idea for How to Sabotage Agile from a weather safety talk I once heard called “How to Get Hit By Lightning.” It&#8217;s more memorable and fun to read about what not to do.

Tell the sysadmins, tech support folks, and in-house counsel that Agile means developers will be pushing code to production anytime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Sabotage Agile, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.ufunctional.com/2009/11/09/how-to-sabotage-agile-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This is from The BA Role in an Agile Environment, presented on 9/15/2009 at the Madison chapter of the IIBA).
The most effective weather safety talk I ever heard was called &#8220;How To Get Hit by Lightning.&#8221; By telling us what to do if we wanted to get killed, it communicated what to do if we [...]]]></description>
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