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		<title>The Agile Client</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/16/the-agile-client/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Agile client &#8230;. by Billy Connolly I want this and that, I want it now, and I will want more tomorrow, and then I will change my f*cking mind, and you can do it all again!]]></description>
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		<title>SDD</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/15/sdd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 15:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t count on the customer to know what they want, so there needs to be a regulation mechanism that Matt Cottingham calls &#8220;Sales Driven Development&#8221; &#8230; Sales Driven Development With Agile, came wholesale criticsm of traditonal &#8220;milestones&#8221; &#8211; but what should be in it&#8217;s place? After all, a client expects to know some kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WordPress &#8211; deactivate plugins from db</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/14/wordpress-deactivate-plugins-from-db/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 01:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[wordpress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[name]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Value]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it may be necessary to deactivate plugins, but you can&#8217;t access the administrative menus to do so. usually down to a flaky plugin that not only fails to work, but leaves garbage that causes wordpress to throw a hissy fit. In the table wp_options, under the option_name column (field) find the active_plugins row TO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funky tester</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/10/funky-tester/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 17:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emilio Estevez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UK]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7083</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People getting into testing now, are having an easier job &#8211; not least because there is a lot more discussion and information around the benefits of testing. And a general acceptance that testing has lagged behind modern development approaches, to extent it was covered in other ways. Newbies to testing are treating testing like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t see wood for the trees</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/03/cant-see-wood-for-the-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=6969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Business needs to move away from Procrustean solutions approach, which inevitably affect the way projects are managed. A Procrustean solution is the undesirable practice of tailoring data to fit its container or some other preconceived structure. A common example from the business world is embodied in the notion that no résumé should exceed one page [...]]]></description>
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		<title>37+ and still learning &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/03/37-and-still-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collection]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=6999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After working for 37 companies, I consistently blamed business as main point of weakness on IT projects. But after reading this article, I felt I had slipped into the same generalisations that just plain aren&#8217;t helpful. I do believe it is far easier to point out problems rather than solutions (stand up, way too many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agile Manager</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/05/02/the-agile-manager/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incremental and Iterative development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management role]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[software development]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7014</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There was no specifics around management in Agile originally, only for development approach &#8211; though addendum&#8217;s have been (hurriedly) added over the years. Management issues always existed pre-Agile of course, but over the last 10 years the role of &#8220;manager&#8221; has become a lot looser than of old. You can have a manager title, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/04/27/corporate/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/04/27/corporate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[whinge]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bbc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behaviour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[filing cabinet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Perot]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[student]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Asides my student serial-demoing days, and subsequent view of corporate behaviour in the news over the years, what most affected my view of corporations was my earlier contracting experience. And none more so than than huge corporation otherwise known as the Civil Service. I started my first contract in 1997, on the atrocious Immigration project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test Analyst or Exploratory Tester?</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/04/23/test-analyst-or-exploratory-tester/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/04/23/test-analyst-or-exploratory-tester/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exploratory Tester]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exploratory testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hysteria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kind]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project generation gap]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7024</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After contributing to and reading discussions about Exploratory testing, it struck me that what we have is a kind of project generation gap. i.e. people who started in IT pre or post Agile. Exploratory testing is what I would call test analysis, an assumed skilled for a tester when I started. When modern methods started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TDD</title>
		<link>http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/2012/04/16/tdd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaffamonkey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TDD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[team]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.jaffamonkey.com/?p=7005</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TDD takes more management, and more admin work from the team, but ultimately will help you deliver products faster and of better quality.]]></description>
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