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		<title>Real World Example of Pliancy in Action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, *this* is what we&#8217;ve been talking about here for the last three years.   I&#8217;m assuming the author has never heard of pliantalliance.org, but despite that, it appears he&#8217;s been very pliant in his development environment, which happens to be a &#8216;distributed agile&#8217; team.   He and his team looked at Scrum. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2009/05/21/real-world-example-of-pliancy-in-action/</link>
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		<title>Kohl on Agile and Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Kohl will be giving a keynote presentation entitled What’s More Important: Being Agile or Creating Value? at the Better Software Conference &#038; Expo in Las Vegas in June.  See here for more info.   Looks like a great talk.  Here&#8217;s the abstract:

Agile processes and tools have become very popular over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2009/04/02/kohl-on-agile-and-value/</link>
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		<title>Business Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The notion that you have to deliver business value on every sprint is garbage.  It is about making progress with working software, not about giving Joe Blow product owner some warm fuzzies every two weeks.  That is all.
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		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2009/03/17/business-value/</link>
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		<title>Agile Register-ed As Overused</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Register has named &#8220;Agile&#8221; one of the most overused phrases of 2008.  Along with &#8220;the cloud&#8221;, &#8220;web 2.0&#8243; and others, &#8220;Agile&#8221; was deemed to have been &#8220;so overused and misapplied during the last 12 months that they began to lose their meaning&#8221;.
Here&#8217;s the excerpt on &#8220;Agile&#8221;:

Agile software development methodologies are finally gaining the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2008/12/29/agile-register-ed-as-overused/</link>
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		<title>Wow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, yes, it has been over a year since I posted here.  The main reason is that I had more important things to adjust to, namely, having a toddler running around the house and moving my family 1000km into the cold of southern Manitoba.   Aside from that, I basically just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2008/11/19/wow/</link>
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		<title>The Hard Way Is Better For Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[cdsmith has a good post on TDD specifically and any software technique/process where he discusses the tendency for some to convince themselves and others that a particularly popular technique/process is worth the effort (even though it may not be) by changing company policy to indicate they should have been doing things the hard way all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2007/10/01/the-hard-way-is-better-for-us/</link>
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		<title>Agile Failures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was pointed towards this talk given by Joe Rainsberger at the Agile 2007 conference a few weeks ago.   The handout sums it up pretty well.   Rainsberger is an experienced Agile coach and admitted Agile zealot. Given his good list of mistake examples, one is left wondering if he has ever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2007/09/04/agile-failures/</link>
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		<title>What the heck does Agile mean anyway?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently looking for a new contract and every time I see a job ad with the word &#8220;Agile&#8221; in it, I&#8217;m faced with a conundrum.   I don&#8217;t really know what it means and as a result I&#8217;m not sure if I actually have Agile experience.  I certainly have _agile_ experience and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2007/08/17/what-the-heck-does-agile-mean-anyway/</link>
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		<title>Saving Agile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Marick has been elected chair of the Agile Alliance and has an interesting proposal.   
I&#8217;m not really concerned with the actual proposal, since frankly, I think it is too late to de-hijack &#8216;Agile&#8217; and anything they do will be for naught.  What really interests me is the fact that the Agile [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2007/05/23/saving-agile/</link>
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		<title>Seeing The Light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a great post, by an as yet unnamed (I couldn&#8217;t locate a name on the blog) software developer realizing that there are people moving on from Agile and he or she is not alone in identifying the &#8220;dogma drenched blather of Agilism&#8221;.
From the blog:

The bottom line is that Agilism had a few good ideas [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pliantalliance.org/2007/05/18/seeing-the-light/</link>
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