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	<title>Software Development Musings from the Editor of Methods &#38; Tools &#187; lean</title>
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		<title>Agile Culture, Scrum, User Experience and Software Architecture in the Winter 2011 issue of Methods &amp; Tools</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/agile-culture-scrum-user-experience-and-software-architecture-in-the-winter-2011-issue-of-methods-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/agile-culture-scrum-user-experience-and-software-architecture-in-the-winter-2011-issue-of-methods-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods & Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[architecture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kanban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Methods &#38; Tools – the free magazine for software developers, testers and project managers – has just published its Winter 2011 issue with the following articles that focuses mainly on agile project management, software architecture and user experience. In addition, four open source software development tools are presented, two for software testing and two for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Integration</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-integration/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-integration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The book is divided in three parts. The first part provides an overview of Lean integration. The second part introduces the seven Lean integration principles and the last part discusses lean integration competency areas. This book provides valuable content to apply the lean principles to the software integration process with a lot of case studies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Observations on Software Architecture</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/observations-on-software-architecture/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/observations-on-software-architecture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading the book &#8220;Practices for Scaling Lean &#38; Agile Development&#8221; by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde. This book is full of very interesting material that covers the full spectrum of the software development domain and is the &#8220;sequel&#8221; of &#8220;Scaling Lean &#38; Agile Development &#8211; Thinking and Organisational Tools for Large-Scale Scrum&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-acceptance-test-driven-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-acceptance-test-driven-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 12:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=765</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This book defines acceptance tests not as the traditional user acceptance tests performed after implementation, but  as the tests created by the customer in collaboration with the developer and the tester prior to implementation.  Ken Pugh proposes mainly an approach where all project stakeholders will collaborate to create tests that validate business requirements. I will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September Software Development Conferences</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/september-software-development-conferences-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/september-software-development-conferences-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a list of software development related conferences and events that will take place in September and that have media partnerships with Methods &#38; Tools: * Mobile Application Stores, September 7 2010, Zurich, Switerland * iqnite 2010 Schweiz, September 21 2010, Zurich, Switzerland * Lean &#38; Kanban 2010 Europe, September 23-24 2010, Antwerp, Belgium [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Testing &amp; Quality in Methods &amp; Tools Summer 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/software-testing-quality-in-methods-tools-summer-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/methods-tools/software-testing-quality-in-methods-tools-summer-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Methods & Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[continuous integration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software testing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Methods &#38; Tools is a free e-magazine for software developers, testers and project managers. Summer 2010 issue has just been published with the following articles: * Aspects of Kanban &#8211; Lean Worfklow Management * Test Language &#8211; Introduction to Keyword Driven Testing * A High Volume Software Product Line * Better Requirements Definition Management is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Agile Software Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-software-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/lean-agile-software-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrum]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The goal of this book is to propose a vision of Agile software development that goes behind the current practices, more specifically Scrum, to integrate the principles of Lean development. To achieve this objective, the authors draw on their own experience in Agile consulting. The book starts with a presentation of Agile and Lean principles. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Size Matter (in Software Development)?</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/does-size-matter-in-software-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/software-development/does-size-matter-in-software-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When friends ask me what is the last trend in software development, I answer Lean. This approach is even easier to describe, because you can take examples outside the software industry and the most famous of them is Toyota. The recent problems faced by the Japanese car manufacturer shows that every idea could get difficulties [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Lean Software Development &#8211; Results are not the Point</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/leading-lean-software-development-results-are-not-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/leading-lean-software-development-results-are-not-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=507</guid>
		<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>
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		<title>Lean: Results are not the Point</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/lean-results-are-not-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/quotes/lean-results-are-not-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=500</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report on the Agile Tour in Geneva</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/report-on-the-agile-tour-in-geneva/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/conferences/report-on-the-agile-tour-in-geneva/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scrum]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I participated on October 12 to the Geneva stage of the Agile Tour which was a great success. There were more than 100 participants announced to this free event. Here is a small feedback for three interesting presentations that I attended. Yves Hanoulle presented about the tips for creating a self-organizing team. In the part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Linkopedia October 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/linkopedia-october-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/links/linkopedia-october-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[.net]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ruby]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=396</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Top 10 reasons why teams fail with Acceptance Testing Software quality metrics and model Comparing Open Source Agile Project Management Tools Icon Search Engine Refractor &#8211; Diagrammer for .Net Assemblies, also support for Javascript. KanbanFX &#8211; A JavaFX implementation of a Kanban board Article: The Clojure programming language Article: Scrum in old fashioned software environments? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for Agile Blogs</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/news/looking-for-agile-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/news/looking-for-agile-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TDD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently created a new web site AgileVoices.com that aggregates for RSS feeds concerning agile software development. If you know about a good blog feed that is missing from the current roster, I would be please to add it. Thanks for your cooperation.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Tools for Scaling Lean and Agile</title>
		<link>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/thinking-tools-for-scaling-lean-and-agile/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.martinig.ch/books/thinking-tools-for-scaling-lean-and-agile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 08:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Editor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.martinig.ch/?p=235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This book from Craig Larman and Bas Vodde is a classic example of the fact that it is better to teach somebody to fish than to give him fish. It emphasizes that it is important to &#8220;be agile&#8221; more than to &#8220;do agile&#8221;. Approaches like Scrum or Lean are more frameworks to think about continuous [...]]]></description>
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