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		<title>Agile and Agile Testing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kaizania was invited to speak to a group of testers at Standard Bank recently on Agile and Agile Testing. This was a really pleasant experience and the conversations we&#8217;ve had during the open session confirmed that Agile is an absolute need these days and not just something nice to attempt. We all know that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=361&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation vs Invention</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading a recent post called  &#8217;Innovation as the lifeblood of any industry&#8216;, it got me thinking&#8230; what is the difference between innovation and invention&#8230; One always receive an overload of information on &#8216;Organisational Innovation&#8217; etc, yet, while training and coaching organisations in South Africa on Agile as the best way to create an environment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=352&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DIY vs Shu-Ha-Ri</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:29:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past  years I have implemented and assisted many organisations with their own agile adoptions as an Agile coach, but also witnessed a lot of abused and misunderstood Agile implementations&#8230; This caused me to actively get involved in evangelising Agile, the essence of Agile, Scrum, Kanban and to actively get the Agile industry and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=347&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Losing the Agile plot&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thinkingagile.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/losing-the-agile-plot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the essence of Agile? This is the question any individual, team or organisation thinking of adopting agile needs to be able to answer first! Too many agile implementations are based on tools and recipes, yes; Scrum / XP/ Kanban are agile tools. On their own, they won’t make you agile and focusing on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=343&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Software development: The Agile Challenge</title>
		<link>http://thinkingagile.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/commercial-software-development-the-agile-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Developing custom applications using the Agile framework has proven itself to increase productivity and ensure that the business gets what adds most business value sooner rather than later.  The increased collaboration between the development team and business, together with the attention given to the prioritization of the work also reduces stress and allows business to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=333&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Story Points versus Hours</title>
		<link>http://thinkingagile.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/story-points-versus-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well well well&#8230; this is probably the hottest issue to any agile implementation&#8230; most certainly the issue causing the most debate, emotions and pure frustration to any agile team! Can one convince a team or individual to adopt points over hours, or hours over points? Well, as an Agile coach I made the massive mistake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=325&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizania at GovTech 2009!</title>
		<link>http://thinkingagile.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/kaizania-at-govtech-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of our mission to foster, support and assist the adoption of Agile software development techniques within Southern Africa, Kaizania sponsored and attended the recent Govtech 2009 conference at the Durban International Conference Centre – see http://www.govtech.co.za/ The conference itself was a great success and exceedingly well organised. If the conference is the standard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=315&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizania Agile Coaching in the press!</title>
		<link>http://thinkingagile.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/kaizania-agile-coaching-in-the-press/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent case study has been done on SDT by the BrainStorm magazine&#8230; SDT gets Agile &#8211; Rethinking and reshaping an entire product development cycle means a big change in mindset. Read the full article here http://www.brainstormmag.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&#38;view=article&#38;id=3479:sdt-get-agile&#38;catid=43:in-depth-analysis&#38;Itemid=86 Seems like the value of Agile and proper Agile coaching is starting to gain momentum!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=311&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A day of Scrum, Agile, good food, networking and some dodgy weather in Cape Town on Spring day 2009!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[thinkingagile had the opportunity to attend the first ever Scrum-day in South Africa on Spring day&#8230; well, typically Cape Town, Spring day turned-out to be more to be a stormy, windy, rainy, cold day! Weather aside, it was a great day, well organised and overall a Scrum success&#8230; well done to the SUGSA committee who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=308&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SUGSA Gauteng 13 Aug 2009 Event Feedback &#8211; Agile Engineering Practices</title>
		<link>http://thinkingagile.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/sugsa-gauteng-13-aug-2009-event-feedback-agile-engineering-practices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a wonderful event, full of Agile content made possible by keen Agilists! This event was proudly sponsored by: As promised, herewith the content from the event: Agile Engineering Practices: ( Click here to download a PDF version of the presentation ) Trying to cover Agile Engineering practices in 30 minutes is pretty tough [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingagile.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6057551&amp;post=295&amp;subd=thinkingagile&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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