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		<title>White Paper: An Agile Approach to Modernisation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote a white paper and it has been added to the ThoughtWorks collection of white papers here: http://www.thoughtworks.co.uk/what-we-say/white-papers.html. After having been involved in a few projects whereupon the client has a need to modernise an ageing technology stack, I thought I&#8217;d pull together from these experiences (and from those of some helpful colleagues) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=538</link>
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		<title>The DEFCON Door</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post about the practice of risk management through use of a &#8216;DEFCON Door&#8217;. A DEFCON door? Well if you&#8217;ve seen that early 80&#8242;s film &#8216;WarGames&#8217; starring Matthew Broderick, or if you simply know your US history, then you&#8217;d know that DEFCONs &#8211; Defense Readiness Conditions &#8211; are used to be a &#8220;measure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=529</link>
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		<title>Trip to Burgundy (2nd outing)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer the Pither family set off for a week&#8217;s vacation in Burgundy, France. This was despite a warning in one of my wife&#8217;s baby books &#8220;The Yummy Mummy&#8217;s Survival Guide&#8221;, that a holiday with a new-born is not actually a holiday, it&#8217;s just the simple feat of surviving in a different location for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=394</link>
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		<title>An Intro to Non-Violent Communication (NVC)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s it all about? It&#8217;s easy to communicate without violence isn&#8217;t it? One would have thought that the majority of us would be able to convey a linguistic subtlety without having the need to head-butt the other person in the face (unlike some of my neighbours, but then that&#8217;s a different story ). NVC is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=372</link>
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		<title>Self Organising Versus Managed Teams</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Self Organising&#8221; teams are somewhat of an elusive goal for Agile/XP projects, in the sense that the application of theory to practice can be far from intuitive, particularly for those coming from a traditionalist software management background. Despite this, having a team with the ability to &#8216;self-organise&#8217; can make all the difference on a project, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=329</link>
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		<title>Dev team leakage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit of an anti-pattern that I have observed and want to discuss. Firstly though, I want to cut straight through an analogy that I believe helps to describe the situation (curiously, I have received some feedback on my propensity for using extreme analogies from a superb linguist colleague of mine who later was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=313</link>
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		<title>Influencing change in a bureaucracy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It already sounds difficult doesn&#8217;t it? A bureaucracy, as defined by Warren Bennis (1969) cannot cope with: Rapid and unpredictable change The increasing complexity of modern organisation Diversity of specialist experience required in many organisations Humanistic, participative management styles But before we start weighing up if an organisation is a bureaucratic one, we ought to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=290</link>
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		<title>Developer Frustration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There have been a number of times when I&#8217;ve sat down to code away at a software problem, and then after a while discovered that I&#8217;m getting quite frustrated in some way. If I&#8217;m honest I wondered if this was simply me being me, hypothesising that there&#8217;s a part of me that just sometimes gets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=278</link>
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		<title>Emotional Intelligence, Schools and Politics (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After sitting down and writing my previous blog post on Emotional Intelligence, Schools and Politics, I decided to contact my local conservative MP on the matter. As I mentioned, the particular mainstream party my MP represents had rebuffed teaching &#8216;emotional intelligence in schools as &#8216;ghastly&#8217;.  I wanted clarification on exactly where they stand on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Emotional Intelligence, Schools and Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since reading up on the virtues of Emotional Intelligence I&#8217;ve wanted to know whether or not schools are making an effort to raise the collective EQ of the kids in the classroom. EQ can boost a person&#8217;s life in many different quarters professionally and personally. EQ in essence is referring to a person&#8217;s awareness of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pitheringabout.com/?p=269</link>
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