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		<title>Linkopedia March 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Web site: Software Engineering Method and Theory
Web site: Rosetta Code
Blog Post: Are tools necessary for acceptance testing, or are they just evil?
Blog Post: New Agile Guidance and CMMI Guidance
Blog Post: 7 truths about Agile and Scrum that people don&#8217;t want to hear
Article: Designing Efficient SQL: A Visual Approach
Article: Are you using a toolset in your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/linkopedia-march-2010/</link>
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		<title>Leading Lean Software Development &#8211; Results are not the Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What fascinates me the most in the Lean software development approach is the quality of the people that support it. The Poppendieck are not an exception to this rule. Their book achieves the seemingly contradictory goals of being very insightful but still easy and captivating to read. It might be however easier to have the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/leading-lean-software-development-results-are-not-the-point/</link>
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		<title>The Times They Are a-Changin&#8217; ? Maybe Not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will rather say that history repeats itself. By the way, this is a quote from Hegel and Marx added that first time was tragedy, and the second time farce. Yet this post is not about a Bob Dylan against Marx debate, but about a thought that came when, after following a conference presenting some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/the-times-they-are-a-changin-maybe-not/</link>
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		<title>Lean: Results are not the Point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have just finished reading the great book &#8220;Leading Lean Software Development&#8221; by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and I wanted to share with you two quotes excerpted from it.
[...] I started a conversation with the question that had been bothering me: &#8220;How do you reconcile the lean view that tests are waste with the need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/lean-results-are-not-the-point/</link>
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		<title>XP Day Switzerland, Geneva, March 29 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the second edition of the XP Day in Geneva. Building on the success of the first edition, the organizers have scheduled a program that should satisfy both people that want to discover what Agile is and practitioners that want to improve their agile practices. For the second year, the conference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/xpday-switzerland-geneva-march-29-2010/</link>
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		<title>March Software Development Conferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in March and that have media partnerships with Methods &#38; Tools:
* Enterprise Software Development Conference, March 1-3 2010, San Mateo, USA 
* CSM &#38; Scrum in Depth ­ Training  with Ken Schwaber, March 3-4, Stuttgart, Germany 
* TheServerSide Java [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/march-software-development-conferences/</link>
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		<title>Scrum Open Source Software Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OpenSourceScrum.com is a new directory of open source tools for Scrum containing also links to tools reviews.
If you know a missing tool or a good review of an included tool, just let us know.
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		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/scrum-open-source-software-directory/</link>
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		<title>Debug It!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This book provides a structured approach that will help programmers to identify and remove bugs in code. It is based on a four steps process: Reproduce, Diagnose, Fix, Reflect. For each activity, the author provides practical material on how perform it. The second part gives a higher vision of the debugging process and deal with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/debug-it/</link>
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		<title>Linkopedia February 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blog Post: Mocking Mocking and Testing Outcomes.
Blog Post: Testing in the Data Center (Manufacturing No More)
Blog Post: Why Model Driven Software Development isn&#8217;t fast enough and how to fix it
Report: Incorporating Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) into Standard Life-Cycle Models
Article: Using Agile Techniques to Pay Back Technical Debt
Article: Compare JavaScript Frameworks
Article: Looking Ahead to ASP.NET [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/linkopedia-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>How Do You Refactor Untested Code?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading the excellent &#8220;Debug It!&#8221; book written by Paul Butcher and I wanted to share with you some of the little gems that I have found in it.
&#8220;Bug fixing often uncovers opportunities for refactoring. The very fact that you&#8217;re working with code that contains a bug indicates that there is a chance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/how-do-you-refactor-untested-code/</link>
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		<title>The 10 Best Software Development Conferences Videos of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You didn&#8217;t have the time or resources to travel last year and regret that you have missed some conferences? Now you can find a lot of complete conference sessions recording on the Web. My title has obviously a little bit of marketing twist, but I share with you a fair and diversified selection of excellent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/the-10-best-software-development-conferences-videos-of-2009/</link>
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		<title>Changing Perspectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the early days of our industry, programmers wrote in assembly code, selecting registers in which to place variables and managing memory explicitly. If we had magically provided these programmers with a Smalltalk compiler, they might have asked, &#8220;How does this help us select registers? How do we allocate memory?&#8221; They might have concluded, &#8220;&#8221;We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/changing-perspectives/</link>
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		<title>Linkopedia January 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blog Post: High quality in application development without unit testing
Blog Post: The Problem with User Stories
Blog Post: Getting Real: the business, design, programming, and marketing philosophies of 37signals
Blog Post: A complete blog engine using Django in 60 minutes
Blog Post: UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil
Article: Love and Marriage: CMMI and Agile Need Each Other
Article: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/linkopedia-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>Review of 2009 for Software Development: Many Acquisitions and a Funeral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year has certainly been busy for the software development tools industry. We have seen many companies merging together and also the funeral of one of the oldest brand in the software development industry.
Bye, Bye Borland
After the sale of its development tools division to Embarcadero in 2008, Borland kept only the tools dealing with requirements [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/news/review-of-2009-for-software-development-many-acquisitions-and-a-funeral/</link>
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		<title>Agile Project Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fact that this book is already at his second edition after a first publication in 2004 says something about its value. In one of his definition of Agile, Jim Highsmith says, &#8220;Agility is the ability to balance flexibility and stability&#8221;. I will say that his book balances nicely high level thinking and a pragmatic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/agile-project-management/</link>
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		<title>Scrum Meet-up with Jeff Sutherland, 25 January, Zurich</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Sutherland visits Switzerland on 25 January 2010. At the meetup, he will give a talk on a state of the art Scrum topic and you will have the opportunity to ask questions and mingle with other Scrum users. Please find the details of the event below.
Language: English
Place: Technopark Zürich, Seminarraum Fortran
Date: 25 January 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/scrum-meet-up-with-jeff-sutherland-25-january-zurich/</link>
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		<title>You Are the Raw Material of Software Development. Are You Good Enough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end of the year is a time where you do some cleaning. During this activity, I found an old issue of IEEE Software where I had noticed an article as a source of interesting software development quotes about people issue. As New Year is also the time to take good resolutions, this should help [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/you-are-the-raw-material-are-you-good-enough/</link>
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		<title>The Consultant, the Coach and Delivering Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Winter 2009 issue of Methods &#038; Tools contains an interesting article from Rachel Davies about Agile Coaching Tips. She shares her experience that is also available in the excellent book that she wrote with Liz Sedley. When I reviewed her book this summer, I started thinking about the coaching role that external people are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/the-consultant-the-coach-and-delivering-value/</link>
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		<title>Linkopedia December 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Post: Command and Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) 
Post: Programmers humor
Post: Reduce Manual Test Debt
Article: A Checklist of Questions to Consider Before Starting a Large-Scale Agile Adoption
Article: A performance benchmark method for comparing open source Java application servers
Nitrogen is an Erlang Web framework
Speed Test is a multi user test case management application
UISpec is a Behavior Driven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/linkopedia-december-2009/</link>
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		<title>Winter 2009 issue of Methods &amp; Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter 2009 issue has just been published with the following articles:
* Refactoring Large Software Systems
* An Introduction to Domain Driven Design
* Agile Coaching Tips
* Are Enterprise AJAX Applications Doomed…Or Are We?
* Does Process Improvement Really Pay Off?
* SQuirreL SQL Client
60 pages of software development knowledge that you can download from
http://www.methodsandtools.com/mt/download.php?winter09
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		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/winter-2009-issue-of-methods-tools/</link>
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