<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>SalientBlue</title>
	<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog</link>
	<description>It's Salient. And it's Blue!</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:41:15 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.0" -->

	<item>
		<title>ADS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was honored to have the opportunity to work toward being approved to teach Ron Jeffries&#8217; and Chet Hendrickson&#8217;s Agile Developer Skills course. I had my first opportunity to co-teach the class last week. It was a great class and I very much enjoyed working along side Chet and Cheezy, two software craftsmen I respect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=208</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Pickled!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll end up writing a third &#8220;Agile Blindspots&#8221; post&#8230; there was something that I was feeling very passionate about back in February but, for better or worse, this time I simply waited for the feeling to pass. It has been a busy year. I knew that new ventures are all-consuming, but knowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=203</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Brushes and Styli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll get back to Agile Blind Spots in my next post, but I have discovered a great app and piece of hardware that has turned my iPhone into an art easel. Brushes is an iPhone app that was highlighted during the introduction of the iPad a few weeks ago. One of my hobbies is Graphic Arts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=193</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Agile Blind Spots, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post I went out on a limb and claimed that, while Agile places a high level of importance on &#8220;Business Value&#8221;, too many Agile projects seem to miss the mark when it comes to providing real value in the real world. To be fair, Agile methodologies have primarily focused on delivering working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=190</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Agile Blind Spots, Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling the need to state up front that: I am not trying to incite a religious war over the merits of Agile or any given Agile methodology I think Agile has been a significant positive force in the IT Industry, driving a focus on continual improvement, quality, incremental delivery and, overall, bringing back a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=185</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Weighing in on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve purposely refrained from reading too much about the release of the iPad. In all likelihood these points have already been made elsewhere, but this is my view of Apple&#8217;s new toy. I&#8217;ll start with the patently obvious (pun intended): exactly like their introduction of the iPod, and exactly like their follow-on introduction of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=180</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Go and Software Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently ran across Kent Beck&#8217;s blog post, Valuing Ambiquity. In it he uses the game of Go as an excellent analogy for dealing with ambiguity in software development. I have been a casual Go player for about two years now, ever since being introduced to the game by a friend and former teammate. Around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=176</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Abolish Roles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I noticed a theme developing in my Twitter feed. I had some friends tweeting from the Simple Design and Testing conference in Pittsburgh, and another friend tweeting about this blog entry. At the same time, I was working on some XP course material and was reminded of Kent Beck&#8217;s words &#8220;&#8230;[taking] [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=174</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Institutionalized Flexibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about my current gig is the opportunity to work with several, high-caliber consultants. The client has put together a top-notch team that has the ability to easily exceed expectations. The client is also a Fortune 500 company with a very long history of heavyweight process. Our job is to codify [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=171</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Hanging out my kanban</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, there you have it. I made my choice! I&#8217;m hanging out my shingle, striking out on my own, etc. People keep asking me if I&#8217;m excited. Terrified is, I think, more appropriate. But I am not completely alone. I&#8217;ll be working very closely with these guys. Just to give you an idea of how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salientblue.com/blog/?p=167</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

<!-- Dynamic Page Served (once) in 0.334 seconds -->
<!-- Cached page served by WP-Cache -->
