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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>Can Big Shops Be Agile?</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/02/10/can-big-shops-be-agile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2010/02/10/can-big-shops-be-agile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the last two years working for a Very Large Insurance Company, and before that I&#8217;ve worked with a number of different sized companies, with various sized development organizations. It&#8217;s got me thinking: just how easy is it for a big development shop to be agile?
My idea of an agile team resembles small businesses, [...]]]></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>Continuous Integration isn&#8217;t a tool!</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/11/04/continuous-integration-isnt-a-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/11/04/continuous-integration-isnt-a-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten into several discussions in the last few months with various people who work at my current client, and a surprising number of them think that continuous integration is a tool. The conversation usually starts when someone says something like &#8220;We&#8217;d like to be doing continuous integration, but we can&#8217;t get the server set [...]]]></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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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Refinement to Integrating Spring and Struts</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/09/14/a-refinement-to-integrating-spring-and-struts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/09/14/a-refinement-to-integrating-spring-and-struts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago, I posted an article on how to enable dependency injection with a Spring and Struts application.  In the meantime, I&#8217;ve come across an inefficiency in that article, and wanted to update my loyal readers (both of you  
In the previous article, I mentioned that you create Spring beans for each of [...]]]></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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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Missing the Point</title>
		<link>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/07/28/missing-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adeptechllc.com/2009/07/28/missing-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.adeptechllc.com/?p=245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my project teams was having a sprint planning meeting earlier this week. They were having a consulting expert working with them this sprint to develop a web service for their use.
&#8220;Have you worked with user stories before?&#8221; the project manager asked. &#8220;We&#8217;ll need you to give us a story point estimate for the [...]]]></description>
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