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		<title>How To Spot The Legacy Code Writer In Your Company (Hint: It&#8217;s You)</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/how-to-spot-the-legacy-code-writer-in-your-company-hint-its-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 17:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Definition of Definition of Done</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/the-definition-of-definition-of-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TL;DR Want to help editing a collaborative version of Definition Of Done checklist, driven by questions, rationales and &#8220;don&#8217;ts&#8221;? Click here and feel free to share your ideas! Long Some months ago my team and I had to define a Definition of Done for one of our projects. Each item of DoD should be an [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1950&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What-If Daily Scrums</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 07:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree with Michael Kennedy when he says that Software Development could be modeled as a Knowledge Discovery Process, &#8220;the process of going from 0% knowledge about an idea to 100% knowledge of a finished product ready for delivery to a customer&#8220;. I agree so much that I decided to adapt my future Daily Scrums [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1930&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Principles and Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago I gave a talk at AgileDay.it. My talk was about a weird experimental Kanban board, and the Leitmotiv I used was around the differences between Principles and Rules. The topic was: we often learn methodologies mocking rules (often, without getting the point) rather than trying to understand the principles behind them. This [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1914&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Preemptive commit comments</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/pre-emptive-commit-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[tl;dr version Rule #1: write commit comments before coding Rule #2: write what the software should be supposed to do, not what you did Long version Dan North changed my life You should read his epic post Introducing BDD. I don&#8217;t want to belittle his message when I say that Behavior Driven Development (which has [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1798&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You won&#8217;t believe how old TDD is</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2012/07/20/you-wont-believe-how-old-tdd-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 21:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kent Beck is credited as the the TDD inventor. Yet, he claims he just re-discovered it. When asked why does he refer to the rediscovery (not the invention) of test-driven development he explained: The original description of TDD was in an ancient book about programming. It said you take the input tape, manually type in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1753&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 Questions About Software and Manufacturing Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 18:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would have liked to reply to Susana Cabaço who wrote an interesting comment to my post Please Stop Saying Software Is An Intangible Product. I wasn&#8217;t able to be concise enough. Since Susana&#8217;s question made me think of three other questions which I do not know the answers, I&#8217;m sharing them with you all. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1687&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please, Stop Saying Software Is An Intangible Product</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/please-stop-saying-software-is-an-intangible-product/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 22:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find here the follow-up of this post. I find it vaguely irritating when the abused image in which software is described as an intangible product is used. Software is, of course, intangible as of dictionary definition (&#8220;Incapable of being perceived by the senses, Incorporeal&#8220;) since it&#8217;s made of bits and bits obviously cannot be touched. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1612&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Practical Rules For Producing Decent Estimates</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/8-practical-rules-for-producing-decent-estimates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This the second part of How I Was Able To Be Successful Even When Forced To Use Waterfall Rule #1: take your time Luckily, your estimation meeting will be much more fortunate than mine (see Part I). In my previous Scrummerfall experience, since I was forced to produce a big-planning-up-front phase, I was used to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1600&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rule #1: don&#8217;t tell me the rule, state the principle behind it</title>
		<link>http://arialdomartini.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/rule-1-dont-tell-me-the-rule-state-the-principle-behind-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arialdo Martini</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some days ago, one of my colleagues showed me an unit test, coded by someone else. It was something like [Test] public void TestALotOfThings() { var instance = new UnitUnderTest(); instance.DoSomething(); instance.DoSomethingElse(); instance.AndThenDoSomeOtherThings(); var check = instance =! null &#38;&#38; instance.Property1 + instance.Property2 == expectedSum &#38;&#38; instance.Property3 == null &#38;&#38; instance.Property4 == expectedValue4 &#38;&#38; instance.Property5 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arialdomartini.wordpress.com&#038;blog=21764536&#038;post=1574&#038;subd=arialdomartini&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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