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		<title>Software Craftsmanship is a community of practice with overlapping values</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 08:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part five of my series on software craftsmanship I look at the definition of software craftsmanship presented in the book by Hoover and Oshineye (2009). Their definition is wrapped around the concepts of community and values. Nice embracing terms &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/software-craftsmanship-is-a-community-of-practice-with-overlapping-values">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Agile Teams and the Overcommitment Bear Trap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 08:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most common problem I&#8217;ve seen with software development teams is over commitment. Invariably individuals and teams are overly optimistic about what can be done in a certain time period. There are any number of reasons for this including arbitrary &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/new-agile-teams-and-the-overcommitment-bear-trap">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Software Craftsmanship is skilled software development in small scale production</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this, the fourth post in my series on software craftsmanship, I interpret Wikipedia: Craft in the context of software development. I&#8217;m doing this because Ade Oshineye: Software Craftsmanship &#8211; More than just a manifesto recommended the wikipedia definition of &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/software-craftsmanship-is-skilled-software-development-in-small-scale-production">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Lean-Agile perspective at the Project Research Institute</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked to write a series of blog posts for the Project Research Institute of Athabascau University in Canada. The institute wanted to expose their audience, mainstream project managers, to an Agile perspective. I relished the opportunity and &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/a-lean-agile-perspective-at-the-project-research-institute">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Software Craftsmanship is not writing crap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the third post in my series on software craftsmanship I&#8217;m having at look at Bob Martin&#8217;s call to arms to software craftsmen to not write crap. Why is there a software craftsmanship movement? What motivated it? What drives it &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/software-craftsmanship-is-not-writing-crap">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Infrastructure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A senior manager in the operations area of my organisation recently commented: There is no such thing as agile infrastructure That got me thinking. I can imagine that adopting an agile approach to infrastructure might be inappropriate in certain circumstances, &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/agile-infrastructure">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Software Craftsmanship is not Software Engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In part two of my series on software craftsmanship I take a look at how Peter McBreen, in his book entitled Software Craftsmanship (McBreen, 2001), sets up software craftsmanship in opposition to software engineering. Actually he does say that &#34;Software &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/software-craftsmanship-is-not-software-engineering">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Management on the Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to keep your feet on the ground when others want to put you on a pedestal. After a while on a pedestal, you stop hearing the truth. It&#8217;s filtered by the henchmen, and they read you so well, &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/management-on-the-ground">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Software Craftsmanship some code-obsessed mishmash of martial arts and carpentry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 09:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software Craftsmanship is some code-obsessed mishmash of martial arts and carpentry or plumbing Ade Oshineye: Software Craftsmanship &#8211; More than just a manifesto &#34;Software Craftsmanship&#34; is one of the big catch phrases in the software development community at the moment. &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/is-software-craftsmanship-some-code-obsessed-mishmash-of-martial-arts-and-carpentry">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agile: I Prefer Hype to Ignorance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news is that Agile has crossed the chasm (Moore, 1991). On the down side there has been, and is, a lot of hype and hyperbole around Agile, Lean, Scrum, XP and Kanban, etc, etc. In particular, and despite &#8230; <a href="http://itsadeliverything.com/agile-i-prefer-hype-to-ignorance">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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