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		<title>The Folly of Password Standards</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/07/07/the-folly-of-password-standards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was out on a web site today, it doesn&#8217;t really matter which one, and was forced to create a profile for the (mis)use of the site&#8217;s owner.  I found their password standards to be, well &#8220;stringent&#8221; would be a good word, especially considering the information (my profile) that I was securing. Their standards for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Enough vs. Just In Case</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/03/01/just-enough-vs-just-in-case/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s amazing to me the lengths people will go to in order to have something &#8220;useful&#8221; to do at work.  The problem is, in their quest to have something to do, they tend to make more work for, and slow down, the rest of us.
A number of years ago, I was working with a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Agile, or Chaos?</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/01/26/is-it-agile-or-chaos/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/01/26/is-it-agile-or-chaos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:27:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=270</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I&#8217;ll run  into a product owner, project manager or other stakeholder who thinks that &#8220;agile&#8221; is the best thing since sliced bread. But it&#8217;s not really for the reasons you&#8217;d consider healthy. &#8220;We can change what we want at any time, because we&#8217;re being Agile!&#8221; they say. As I&#8217;ve probably mentioned before, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Temptations of an Agile Project: But that&#8217;s Easy! Can&#8217;t we just do it?</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/01/05/temptations-of-an-agile-project-but-thats-easy-cant-we-just-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/01/05/temptations-of-an-agile-project-but-thats-easy-cant-we-just-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=267</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some ideas that seem perfectly sensible are really disasters waiting to happen, and agile teams are not immune. I’ve started to notice some frequent mistakes that inexperienced, and sometimes not so inexperienced, teams make when they’re trying to be agile. These things seem like perfectly good, common sense ideas, but they have undesirable consequences, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temptations of an Agile Project: Let&#8217;s Make the Sprint Longer</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/12/14/temptations-of-an-agile-project-lets-make-the-sprint-longer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/12/14/temptations-of-an-agile-project-lets-make-the-sprint-longer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some ideas that seem perfectly sensible are really disasters waiting to happen, and agile teams are not immune. I’ve started to notice some frequent mistakes that inexperienced, and sometimes not so inexperienced, teams make when they’re trying to be agile. These things seem like perfectly good, common sense ideas, but they have undesirable consequences, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Temptations of an Agile Project: Too Many Stories</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/10/14/temptations-of-an-agile-project-too-many-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/10/14/temptations-of-an-agile-project-too-many-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some ideas that seem perfectly sensible are really disasters waiting to happen, and agile teams are not immune.  I&#8217;ve started to notice some frequent mistakes that inexperienced, and sometimes not so inexperienced, teams make when they&#8217;re trying to be agile. These things seem like perfectly good, common sense ideas, but they have undesirable consequences, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong with Test Driven Development?</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/08/31/whats-wrong-with-test-driven-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/08/31/whats-wrong-with-test-driven-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently been working on a project that is making a very determined try to use Test Driven Development (TDD). For those who are unfamiliar with the practice, rather than writing your unit tests after you write your code, you write the tests first.  I&#8217;ve known about the practice for years, but this is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some unfortunate behavior in DBUnit</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/07/07/some-unfortunate-behavior-in-dbunit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/07/07/some-unfortunate-behavior-in-dbunit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I posted about our recent success at getting DBUnit working with an in-memory HSQLDB database,  which allows us to more thoroughly test data access objects (DAOs). Further work with that solution has unearthed some rather frustrating problems unfortunately. 
Presume for a moment that we have a table, called &#8220;mytable&#8221; with just a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unit testing using in-memory databases</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/07/02/unit-testing-using-in-memory-databases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/07/02/unit-testing-using-in-memory-databases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unit testing software tends to break down at the boundaries of a system.  It&#8217;s difficult to test the graphical user interfaces (although with some of the new technologies like Selenium, testing browser-based GUIs is easier&#8230;) and the database access. I&#8217;ll save the UI for another time, today&#8217;s topic is the database access.
[Update - Read Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>User Story Factories</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/05/06/user-story-factories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/05/06/user-story-factories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 12:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=212</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret how to write a good user story, you just need to keep focused on the outcome you want to see. Cohen&#8217;s formula, &#8220;I, as a , want to  so I can ,&#8221; does a good job keeping us focused on that.  Still it seems like people want to throw all [...]]]></description>
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