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		<title>Purpose Behind the Practice &#8211; Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2011/10/13/purpose-behind-the-practice-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahh, the agile retrospective. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ve seen a single more unappreciated practice in all my time working in agile environments. I&#8217;m also not sure there is a single more valuable practice among all those activities that we typically associate with agile development. For those of you new to agile, I will give a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose Behind the Practice &#8211; Daily Stand Up</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2011/04/04/purpose-behind-the-practice-daily-stand-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Yesterday I worked on US2846, today I&#8217;ll be working on US5378. I have no impedements.&#8221; Does this sound like one of your standup meetings? If that does sound familiar, I&#8217;d like to challenge you to ask yourself, &#8220;Does this provide value to my team?&#8221; I have participated in stand ups that are barely more than phrases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Purpose Behind the Practice &#8211; Why Are We Doing This Again?</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2011/03/28/purpose-behind-the-practice-why-are-we-doing-this-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I come into new organizations to work with Scrum teams, I often find the team going through the motions of scrum or agile development without necessarily understanding why it is they are doing the things that they are doing. This is the first post in a series in which I will explore the reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Louis IIBA Meeting July 2010</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2010/06/24/saint-louis-iiba-meeting-july-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2010/06/24/saint-louis-iiba-meeting-july-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve announced the details for the July meeting of the Saint Louis IIBA chapter and it&#8217;s going to be a great one. Lou Hawn and Art Staden of Icon ATG will be joining us to present &#8220;Requirements Definition with User Stories in an Agile Environment&#8221;. From the speakers&#8217; abstract: &#8220;Core Agile development generally focuses on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu 10.04 &#8220;Lucid Lynx&#8221; Beta Available</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2010/03/24/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-beta-available/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2010/03/24/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-lynx-beta-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Canonical has released the beta version of Ubuntu 10.04 in the traditional desktop, server, and notebook versions along with a version designed to run on Amazon&#8217;s EC2. Some of the more noteworthy changes include new default themes, better social media integration through Gwibber, and faster boot times. You can find a full list of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IIBA Announces New Online Library</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2010/03/17/iiba-announces-new-online-library/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2010/03/17/iiba-announces-new-online-library/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Membership in the IIBA just got even better.  Earlier this week, the professional association for Business Analysts announced a new on-line library that will be available to its members.  According to the official announcement, the library contains hundreds of titles with a total value of around $15,000 US if purchased individually.  While I haven&#8217;t had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Netbook in the Works?</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/12/30/google-netbook-in-the-works-2/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/12/30/google-netbook-in-the-works-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to the recent rumors of a Google phone, it looks like the web giant is planning to get into the netbook business as well.  The IBTimes is reporting today that specs have been leaked for a Chrome OS-based netbook due to launch during the 2010 holiday season.  Among the standard netbook features you&#8217;d expect, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Podcast: About Agile And Scrum With Michael Vincent &#124; Usability Counts &#124; User Experience, Social Media</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/04/04/podcast-about-agile-and-scrum-with-michael-vincent-usability-counts-user-experience-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/04/04/podcast-about-agile-and-scrum-with-michael-vincent-usability-counts-user-experience-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been a huge fan of agile development and the Scrum methodology ever since I first started working with it years ago.  The iterative nature of Scrum development lends itself so well to both obtaining and implementing user feedback that it&#8217;s hard not to like it.  I just finished listening to a great interview [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handy Tweaks To Make GIMP Replace Photoshop &#124; How-To &#124; Smashing Magazine</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/04/03/handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop-how-to-smashing-magazine/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/04/03/handy-tweaks-to-make-gimp-replace-photoshop-how-to-smashing-magazine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smashing Magazine just published a great guide to help those of us using GIMP to get it to act a little more like it&#8217;s much more expensive conuterpart, Photoshop.  For those of us that have been using GIMP for a while; some of these tips may be old hat, but even the most seasoned GIMP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Forget The Basics</title>
		<link>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/03/31/dont-forget-the-basics/</link>
		<comments>http://stevenvoyles.com/2009/03/31/dont-forget-the-basics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>steven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[lifehacks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My wife is completely addicted to Top Chef, which more or less means I&#8217;m completely addicted to Top Chef as well.  One thing that perpetually frustrates me when we watch the show together is how many people get knocked out of the competition due to a simple lack of preparation.  I could understand the first [...]]]></description>
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