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	<description>Agile Product Management with Open Source Software</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Creating a useful product management environment</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/creating-a-useful-product-management-environment/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/creating-a-useful-product-management-environment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ More development in the area of customizing and integrating bug-tracking and project management tools to create a useful  product management environment: Product management nirvana
I have pointed earlier to the effort started at Splunk in my post Bookmark: Automating and opening up product planning . It is quite interesting to see what they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rolling wave planning compromise.</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/rolling-wave-planning-compromise/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/rolling-wave-planning-compromise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David @ 37signals is saying, You do not need a product road map:
It’s better to turn customers away than to placate their instincts and lure them in with vague promises. It’s incredibly rare that a single feature will truly make or break your chance with a customer. If your software is a good enough fit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmark: Is Distributed Agile Development as Hard as it Looks?</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/bookmark-is-distributed-agile-development-as-hard-as-it-looks/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/bookmark-is-distributed-agile-development-as-hard-as-it-looks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/bookmark-is-distributed-agile-development-as-hard-as-it-looks/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting and, in my opinion, very valid opinion expressed in Is Distributed Agile Development as Hard as it Looks?, by Dean Leffingwell.
 &#8230; of all the challenges enterprises face in adopting large-scale agile, the problem of distributed teams ranks fairly low on the list.

While everyone understands the virtues of face to face communication - (agile manifesto principle: The most efficient and effective method [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmark: Agile SCM - Review of 2007 and Predictions for 2008</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/bookmark-agile-scm-review-of-2007-and-predictions-for-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/bookmark-agile-scm-review-of-2007-and-predictions-for-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[IT project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Agile SCM - Review of 2007 and Predictions for 2008, written by Brad Appleton, Robert Cowham and Steve Berczuk. An interesting read.
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		<title>Installable vs. Hosted</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/installable-vs-hosted/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/installable-vs-hosted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[LAMP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/installable-vs-hosted/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This 37signals&#8217; post started a long thread of interesting comments Ask 37signals: Installable software? Quite insightful opinions although mostly leaning towards the hosted SaaS approach.
It would be highly unlikely that we’d sell installable software. This question is actually more about business than it is about software. 

We’d be a different company
Hosted = Controlled development and deployment environment
Installable = [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmark: Automating and opening up product planning</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/bookmark-automating-and-opening-up-product-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/bookmark-automating-and-opening-up-product-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[bug tracking]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/bookmark-automating-and-opening-up-product-planning/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interesting post by Christina Noren, Automating and opening up product planning. Yet another example of a team trying to hack and integrate a few existing tools to build a useful product management flow. The problem I have been describing in my earlier post, Think bigger, Think Agile Product Management. Seems like many teams face the same inconvenience and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do organizations fall back to the old, comfortable waterfall?</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/why-do-organizations-fall-back-to-the-old-comfortable-waterfall/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/why-do-organizations-fall-back-to-the-old-comfortable-waterfall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/why-do-organizations-fall-back-to-the-old-comfortable-waterfall/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another article that I really liked: The (Not-so) Agile Waterfall, by Ken Knapton.
I have recently been made aware of yet another organization that says they are &#8220;doing agile&#8221; when in fact they are not. They are in fact following almost a text-book example of the waterfall method, but using agile terms such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRM2.0: customer-life-cycle-management</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/crm20-customer-life-cycle-management/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/crm20-customer-life-cycle-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/crm20-customer-life-cycle-management/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another source talks about new generation of CRM solutions: Customer Life Cycle Management
 The big difference between CRM and CLM is that with CRM you are communicating to segments of users when you believe they need something. CLM is more about one to one communication – it’s about knowing what they want and delivering it when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Demise” wasn’t really about the difficulty of Gantt charts inside an iteration &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/%e2%80%9cdemise%e2%80%9d-wasn%e2%80%99t-really-about-the-difficulty-of-gantt-charts-inside-an-iteration/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/%e2%80%9cdemise%e2%80%9d-wasn%e2%80%99t-really-about-the-difficulty-of-gantt-charts-inside-an-iteration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/%e2%80%9cdemise%e2%80%9d-wasn%e2%80%99t-really-about-the-difficulty-of-gantt-charts-inside-an-iteration/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ In response to the comment on GANTT in agile environment
“Demise” wasn’t really about the difficulty of Gantt charts inside an iteration so much as it was the value (or lack thereof) of Gantt charts within an iteration. Sure, you can probably make it easy at a theoretical level, but what about in real practice? Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoxel v1.18: License Management System (LMS)</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/yoxel-v118-license-management-system-lms/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/yoxel-v118-license-management-system-lms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/yoxel-v118-license-management-system-lms/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Yoxel v1.18 is available for download with a significant extension to YOXEL SLS (for sales) suite: License Management System. You may ask, &#8220;Why YOXEL SLS?&#8221; - when the focus of the project is agile product management. The reason is that our active users encourage us more and more to link into CRM world and as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future looks bright (for agile teams)!</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/the-future-looks-bright-for-agile-teams/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/the-future-looks-bright-for-agile-teams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/the-future-looks-bright-for-agile-teams/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This post by Alex Iskold, The Future of Software Development, has circulated the web very fast . I have already seen many blogs referring to his article and it has been even mentioned in LinkedIn&#8217;s Q&#38;A section. I share the views expressed by Alex and wanted to bookmark this link on my blog too :).
Equipped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile roadmap</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/agile-roadmap/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/16/agile-roadmap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Here is another great &#8216;real-life&#8217; story of transitioning to &#8216;agile&#8217; Agile Team (with personality observation) by Susan Lim. You know I like such stories more than any theoretical discussions on this topic, because it is very individual and it gives very good examples. I learn alot from these myself.
The point of having two plans, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bugzilla -&#62; Yoxel synchronization module</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/bugzilla-yoxel-synchronization-module/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/bugzilla-yoxel-synchronization-module/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Bugzilla]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[bug tracking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to use Yoxel&#8217;s product/project management capabilities to plan and track your agile iterations, but are not quite ready yet to switch to Yoxel&#8217;s request tracker completely then you should download and install this module.
In general this module allows synchronization with any external web-based bug-tracker (Bugzilla, GNATS, Mantis, Retrospectiva, Jira, FogBugz, &#8230;). Besides [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoxel v1.17 with a SALES module is available for download.</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/yoxel-v117-with-a-sales-module-is-available-for-download/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/yoxel-v117-with-a-sales-module-is-available-for-download/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Product Management]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[knowledge management]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/29/yoxel-v117-with-a-sales-module-is-available-for-download/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 	Release v1.17 (http://yoxel.com) has a bunch of new capabilities and I am quite excited to list a few of them here:

YOXEL SLS (an experimental suite for sales teams), that has been only available in our on-demand version, is now included in the open source version. You get two subsystems: sales forecast tracking and product [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open source tool to help you support agile methodology</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/an-open-source-tool-to-help-you-support-agile-methodology/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/an-open-source-tool-to-help-you-support-agile-methodology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[agile]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/an-open-source-tool-to-help-you-support-agile-methodology/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ This time I am not talking about our tool Yoxel Sytems. Here is an article I came across, and thought you could be interested in checking out:
Open source tool support for managing agile software development:
 Software engineers love tools and tool support. However, the conceptual difficulties in linking business management, product management, with project management and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bookmark:  1-Page Introduction to Agile Methods.</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/bookmark-1-page-introduction-to-agile-methods/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/bookmark-1-page-introduction-to-agile-methods/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/bookmark-1-page-introduction-to-agile-methods/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ I thought I would bookmark this nice concise description of agile methods: 1-Page Introduction to Agile Methods. Could be a useful link for the folks that come to my blog.
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		<title>Areas to improve for your software projects</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/areas-to-improve-for-your-software-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/areas-to-improve-for-your-software-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ A very insightful analysis indeed, by Carl Rogers in his post A little insight into our customers&#8217; process capability &#8230;
With tons of useful graphs. A few things that I notice from the graphs:

The most challenging problems that software projects face are: Delayed Delivery, Cost overruns, Poor Requirements, Unclear/Imprecise Business Objectives, Poor Communication, Lack of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Set-up your google alerts</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/set-up-your-google-alerts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 03:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ A great blog webworkerdaily.com and a quite interesting article Underused Google Tips and Hacks.
I myself use google alerts, they help me find new articles on the web and track what web writes on the topics that interests me. I really recommend it.
I am going to try  1-800-GOOG-411 one of these days too &#8230;
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing and sprint planning challanges</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/testing-and-spring-planning-challanges/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ An insightful article/survey by Derek Morrison:
Points to watch out for when converting from waterfall to agile testing
 100% stated that:

There was a lack of written requirements to test against, not enough detail in the requirements resulting in no real understanding on how a feature should work. Also a lack of forethought on features causes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainstorming</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/brainstorming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt that brainstorming meetings are not very productive? I guess I am not the only one who prefers to think individually before sharing ideas:
Why brainstorming is a bad idea.
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		<title>Why I choose FreeBSD over Linux :).</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/29/why-i-choose-freebsd-over-linux/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This quote, that has been around for a while, is quite funny:
&#8220;BSD is what you get when a bunch of Unix hackers sit down to try to port a Unix system to the PC. Linux is what you get when a bunch of PC hackers sit down and try to write a Unix system for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yoxel v1.16 in the news!</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/22/yoxel-v116-in-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This is the first time our project got some coverage in press. And it is a very pleasant surprise because I had no idea the article was coming out in O3 magazine (Issue #7):
Issue #7: Agile Product Management
John Buswell, the author of the article, contacted me yesterday, just a few hours before the press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize, &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/prioritize-prioritize-prioritize/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commenting on the article by Max Pool, Get Your Manager To Prioritize Your Tasks, I would just add:

prioritize iteration work in the beginning of every iteration
prioritize your critical/unexpected requests daily or weekly

And the tools to do both of these tasks efficiently and collaboratively exist.
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		<title>Is GANTT chart the real issue here?</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/is-gantt-chart-the-real-issue-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Scott, thank you for your comment to my earlier post GANTT in agile environment. I wanted to respond to it but could not find a short way of doing that so here goes another full-blown post. A comment like this would probably get lost in the comments section.
Is it GANTT or is it MS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GANTT in agile environment</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/14/gannt-in-agile-envoronment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[  I am suggesting to look at the use of GANTT charts in context of an agile environment from quite an untraditional angle. A modified, fully-automated, dynamic, self-correcting version of GANTT chart can be very helpful in planning and monitoring your development iterations. As a matter of fact I personally prefer it over an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for a good Linux certified desktop PC?</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/looking-for-a-good-linux-certified-desktop-pc/</link>
		<comments>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/looking-for-a-good-linux-certified-desktop-pc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Adrian,
Thank you for making your experience available to others through the article: Thank you, openSUSE (from a FreeBSD guy)
This time around it helped me to make my  FreeBSD 6.2 with xorg 6.9 recognize the onboard NVIDIA GeForce 6150 card.
Here is, by the way, briefly my story about buying a new desktop PC on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should I use Jira? Should I tighten my workflow?</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/should-i-use-jira-should-i-tighten-my-workflow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There are different methods of project management in software teams. Which one is better? Which one is for you? Check out this insightful article by Tristane Bates and do not hurry to pick a tool before your team has not worked out the right process.
On software teams by Tristan Bates:
 But Jeremy, that might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightweight defect tracking</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/lightweight-defect-tracking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Adam Bullied writes about an interesting tool Pownce that helps him speed-up the work and communication during the final phases of releasing v1.0 of their new product: Some New Tools.
I don’t want to be sitting around filling out CR entries, assigning them, forcing developers to read them, re-assign, etc, etc… It would kill our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agile like sales</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/agile-like-sales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 20:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You may have already noticed that there is often a portion of your project that is not well predictable. You have trouble estimating the effort to implement it and then it actually takes longer than what you guessed. You will be surprised but your sales people can teach you how to deal with unpredictable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Due to unexpected bugs and other difficulties</title>
		<link>http://yoxel.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/due-to-unexpected-bugs-and-other-difficulties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reading about real life experiences with SCRUM is quite interesting. You see, that compared to theoretical description of the process, you always have unexpected tasks that mess-up even your shortest iteration plans. Software design is quite unpredictable but running a software company with customers is even more so  .
Check out Tom Harris&#8217; post [...]]]></description>
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