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		<title>QCon London 2010 Day 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keynote: Ralph Johnson on Living and working with aging software
The final keynote of the conference kicked off the second day of QCon and presented to us by Ralph Johnson of the Gang of Four fame and whose students contributed to Fowler&#8217;s timeless Refactoring book. 
Ralph was asking about the number of people who work on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/03/qcon-london-2010-day-2-2/</link>
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		<title>QCon London 2010 Day 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been to a QCon before and being run by the same organisers of JAOO and the folks behind the ever popular InfoQ, I was looking forward to being both an attendant and presenter. Lasting three conference days and two tutorial days, this conference focuses mainly on being talked at &#8211; quite a different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/03/qcon-london-2010-day-1/</link>
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		<title>Agile lets people be people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you introduce agile methods to very traditional organisations there&#8217;s a side effect most people underestimate. This is, I believe, where the first line in the manifesto is most appropriate:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Traditional organisations are geared for efficiency &#8211; keeping individuals busy to the point where you lose overall effectiveness if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/03/agile-lets-people-be-people/</link>
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		<title>A Community of Thinking Practitioners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first read &#8220;A Community of Thinkers&#8221; that Liz, Jean and Eric published late last year. I remember thinking that I felt strongly aligned to it, yet slightly uncomfortable with the exact wording. I toyed around with some words and now, a couple of months later, I am much more comfortable with a slightly abridged [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/a-community-of-thinking-practitioners/</link>
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		<title>Real Options with Sticky Notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a big fan or Real Options since I heard about them a few years back. It gave me a better way of calculating the Last Responsible Moment. I look at decisions very differently now, recognising when we need to make decisions now, and when we can defer those decisions until it is too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/real-options-with-sticky-notes/</link>
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		<title>Agreeing to Agree Slides</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to all the people who came along to the GeekNight Liv Wild and I hosted last week. We&#8217;ve put the slides up online here. 
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		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/agreeing-to-agree-slides/</link>
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		<title>Kaikaku or Kaizen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hear about two major approaches to introducing agile methods to organisations. Kaikaku (known in lean circles as radical change) is the brute force method of pushing all the change you want upon the organisation. You recognise this when basically the &#8220;normal&#8221; way of working is flipped on its head and a whole swarm of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/kaikaku-or-kaizen/</link>
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		<title>Professional Scrum Master Certification Disappears from Scrum.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More interesting developments as @carlton858 points out there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a Professional Scrum Master certification announcement on the home page of Scrum.org anymore.
Fortunately I still had a copy of the page as it looked yesterday below:

Here&#8217;s what google&#8217;s cache of it had several days before that:

And here it is today:

I&#8217;m intersted to see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/professional-scrum-master-certification-disappears-from-scrum-org/</link>
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		<title>It had to happen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The split in the Scrum community with Ken Schwaber going independent of the Scrum Alliance sees Scrum.org announce the Professional Scrum Developer program.
An interesting development indeed. There&#8217;s also now a competing certification for the Professional Scrum Master instead of the Certified Scrum Master. I&#8217;m sure this is going to be confusing for everyone. (I wonder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/it-had-to-happen/</link>
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		<title>Articulate your Incompetence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks back, Andy and I got together to walk through all the different iPhone examples that we&#8217;ve been playing around with. We both learned a great deal. 
I&#8217;ve found that teaching whilst learning is actually the most effective way of learning. There&#8217;s something about trying to put words to the things that you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.thekua.com/atwork/2010/02/articulate-your-incompetence/</link>
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