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	<title>George Dinwiddie's blog</title>
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	<description>Effective software development</description>
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		<title>Getting your money&#8217;s worth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everybody wants to get full value for their money.  I can pinch a penny as hard as the next guy, maybe harder.  But I&#8217;ve learned in many ways and many contexts, the very things I do to get more for my money, often result in actually getting less.  How can this happen?Let&#8217;s look at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/03/13/getting-your-moneys-worth/</link>
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		<title>Testing in depth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the late 1970s, in the Co-Evolution Quarterly, the magazine successor to The Whole Earth Catalog, Peter Warshall stated that geodesic dome houses always leak.  This was a bold and surprising statement at the time, coming from a man who was considered one of the finest builders of dome houses&#8211;ones that didn&#8217;t leak.
Why did he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/03/05/testing-in-depth/</link>
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		<title>More on Automated Acceptance Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Shore has posted a response to the reactions about his previous post on Acceptance Testing in which he defends the way he and the teams he coaches are working.  About the same time, Lisa Crispin posted her thoughts on the topic.
As Lisa says,
I can’t tell you the one right way to test and develop [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/03/03/more-on-automated-acceptance-testing/</link>
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		<title>The Reality of Automated Acceptance Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Jim Shore wrote about The Problems With Acceptance Testing.  I like Jim, and respect him a lot.  Because of my respect for his opinions, I found it quite discouraging that he said, &#8220;I no longer use [automated acceptance testing] or recommend it.&#8221;  Gojko Adzic has posted his response to Jim.  This is mine.
Certainly when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/03/01/the-reality-of-automated-acceptance-testing/</link>
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		<title>How Fascinating!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a day of mistakes.  Not so much making mistakes, but talking about them.  It started with Bret Pettichord&#8217;s tweet
Agile requires the courage to make mistakes in front of others and the maturity to admit them when they happen.
Surely this is true.  Agile is all about paying attention to what happens and adjusting for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/26/how-fascinating/</link>
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		<title>A Lingua Franca between the Three (or more) Amigos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There were a couple dozen people who showed up at the Fool, last night, for my presentation on A &#8221;Lingua Franca&#8221; to Ensure You Get the Right System.  I&#8217;d like to thank them all for coming and for such lively participation.
These are exciting times.  The tools of acceptance testing and behavior-driven development are progressing beyond [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/25/a-lingua-franca-between-the-three-or-more-amigos/</link>
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		<title>3 Legs to Standing Up an Agile Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you’re starting your first Agile project.  You’ve read books and blogs.  You’ve had training.  You think you’re ready, but it’s still a daunting prospect.  There’s just so much to remember—so many details.
Here’s a little cheat sheet.  Forget all the details and the various ways you can implement Agile for the moment.  Let’s simplify the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/18/3-legs-to-standing-up-an-agile-project/</link>
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		<title>The testers get behind at the end</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a very common complaint, such as this one left on the Scrumdevelopment yahoogroup:
Usually in different phases, workload for tester and dev is different. E.g. when a project is coming to the end, most of the tasks will be test.
There are a couple of big red flags waving at me in those two sentences.  One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/16/the-testers-get-behind-at-the-end/</link>
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		<title>Testability &amp; Good Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of the time, the test-driven development yahoogroup is pretty quiet, but it has recently awakened from winter hibernation.  The question &#8220;Is it OK to add code to a class only to improve its testability?&#8221; stirred up a wide-ranging discussion that brought in the topic of what constitutes good design.  &#8220;Uncle Bob&#8221; Martin drew a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/14/testability-good-design/</link>
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		<title>Agile Retroflection of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yves Hanoulle asks, &#8220;If you could change 1 thing today what would it be?&#8221; as the first question in his Agile Retroflection of the Day project. Today being the first of the year, it&#8217;s natural that I look back over the past year as I consider this question.  And so I answer,
That people could ask [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/01/01/agile-retroflection-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Tracking your investments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world is slowly recovering from a major financial meltdown.  People blame the collapse on a number of different things: a bubble of inflated housing prices, relaxed requirements for qualifying for a mortgage, predatory lending practices, greed on the part of mortgage companies and investment banks….  There are certainly many places to point fingers.  Each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2009/12/27/tracking-your-investments/</link>
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		<title>I do not endorse PMAC Certification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It has come to my attention that the PMAC (Project Management Association of Canada / Association de Management de Projet du Canada) claims that I support their certification program.  This is a lie.  I do not support their certification program.
Their claim seems to based on a mailing list posting in which I said,
I applaud your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2009/12/07/i-do-not-endorse-pmac-certification/</link>
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