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		<title>Common Mistakes Teams Make in Retrospectives</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2012/01/10/common-mistakes-teams-make-in-retrospectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something has been bothering me about the way I see many teams handle retrospectives. To be fair, it&#8217;s really several things. These common mistakes do more than make a retrospective less effective, they destroy any ability to achieve the purposes of a retrospective.When I first start to talk to people about the purpose of retrospectives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reconsidering Pragmatic Agility</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2011/11/18/reconsidering-pragmatic-agility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I consider myself fairly pragmatic when it comes to agility in software development, or at least I used to&#8230; I&#8217;m having second thoughts.  As long as I&#8217;ve been around agile development (it&#8217;s been, what 6 or 7 years&#8230;) I&#8217;ve been exposed to what some people call Agilistas.  You probably recognize what I mean if you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Agile Training Courses</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/05/24/new-agile-training-courses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/05/24/new-agile-training-courses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 18:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to announce the availability of the first two courses in my series of agile training courses, a one-day agile overview course, and a two-day course called Agile for Data Professionals. There are a number of other courses in the works, but if you find yourself with a burning need for one of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time, Resources, Scope&#8230; and Quality.</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/05/13/time-resources-scope-and-quality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/05/13/time-resources-scope-and-quality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 15:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Project managers will sometimes refer to the &#8220;iron triangle&#8221; of time, resources and scope for a project. The idea here is that each of these facets of a project are the leg of some theoretical triangle, and you can adjust your project by making one of the legs shorter if you need to.  How does [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/03/01/just-enough-vs-just-in-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=273</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></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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		<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>
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		<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, and [...]]]></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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