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		<title>Agile User Experience Development</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 15:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Merrill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m always on the lookout for where I need to be heading with my practice, and the idea of Agile User Experience Development is now on the short list.
I’ve been on teams with some fairly good usability/user experience people over the years, and they love the waterfall. Identify all the users, develop all the personas, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deniability and Software&#8211;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 [anticipatory [...]]]></description>
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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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