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Agile Development and The 30 Day Blitz
We did the webinar. Definitely worth watching and/or listening to. Mike Hugos and I basically talk, for the better part of an hour, about how agile development and the 30 day blitz help companies understand that, yes, you CAN get results from the IT department Read More...

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Webinar! 30 Day Blitz and Agile Development
Almost forgot to mention this, but its still not too late to sign up . Mike Hugos and I are going to sit down and have a conversation about the 30-day blitz and what it can mean for your project. We will also be taking questions at the end. Once it completes, Read More...

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Mike Hugos Strategic Partnership
It's official as of today. Read about it at the Magenic web site , or on Yahoo News . My role in this endeavor is to, among other things, drive this partnership, spreading the word about the 30-day blitz to as many people that will listen. In the Read More...

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The 80% Solution and Industry Pundits
http://martinfowler.com/bliki/RollerSkateImplementation.html Who knew that Martin Fowler, of all people, would be into some of the same ideas that Mike Hugos and I have been evangelizing - the idea that getting something out there fast may be important Read More...

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Walking Among the Giants
One heck of a watershed day today. In our Magenic corporate office in Minneapolis, I got to introduce the eponymous Rocky Lhotka to the equally well known Michael Hugos . The coming together... "Box 1/Strategy" meets the best of "Box 2/Implementation" Read More...

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30-Day Blitz Complete
We got signoff on day 30.9 :) * We have working software. It was close. Integration issues / specifically, issues related to MOSS security in the production environment, almost made us late. However, some burning of midnight oil got us there. You know Read More...

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Value per Hour - The 30-Day Blitz
Not all developer hours are created equal. We have all heard of the "10x developer" - the idea that some developers, because of their talent, ability to handle ambiguity, and ability to ask the right questions, can, as Joel Spolsky says, hit Read More...

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Hyderabad Blitz - Days 9-11
The delegation of folks here not from India is thinning. We are down to Mike Hugos, myself, and Paul Ulyett, an experienced IT strategist who is helping mentor our local PM in running an agile PMO. The project is running ahead of schedule, the team velocity Read More...

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Hyderabad - Days 3-6 - OMG - XP Can Work!
Well, we have had a very busy 3 days, even by 30-day blitz standards. We have completed a project plan that took us to about 34 days, debated an extra 2 days about design, and through a very messy, socratic process, come to start the build phase as of Read More...

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Hyderabad - Day 1
Other than working to the point of literal exhaustion - we made a ton of progress. In one day, we pretty much defined the scope of the problem, mapped out the entire process we are optimizing, not to mention simply getting the local team here entirely Read More...

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Magenic Hyderabad Diary - Day 0
This post comes to you from the Frankfurt Airport, en route to Hyderabad. One of my more eponymous colleagues is posting about our trip on CIO.com . Indeed, this trip might be my highest profile gig to date. But even bigger - if we manage to make this Read More...

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The 30 Day Blitz - Building Great Software One Step At a Time
A good friend of mine, and long time colleague, Michael Hugos , has a new book coming out about a concept called The 30 Day Blitz, as well as other ideas about agility as it is seen from non-technical folks. At processexchange.com, he has a podcast out Read More...

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