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		<title>Why your shop should stop doing one-liner requirement gathering!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got off a project where everything was specified by the customer as one liner requirements. System shall do this. System shall do that. Such old school gathering of requirements shows the lack of understanding what a customer really needs and what adds business value. Here how software development falls apart right from the beginning. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better software development metrics and estimates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t you hate gathering metrics that don’t mean anything? In the 80’s it was KLOC (thousand of lines of code) in the 90’s projects got so big we had to do big bang waterfall estimates where nobody had a handle on how long it would REALLY take to complete a project. Now in the agile [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business and technology planning &#8211; do it now before it is too late!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a discussion over the Friend Feed Social-Media room if people thought there were any parallels to the Dot-Com (Bomb) days with Social Web companies.   Some great points were made that there is a much larger audience now versus then and one comment that software platforms are more accommodating and the barrier to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Query Caching</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>geoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySQL query caching is simple to implement and very beneficial to high volume websites. Query cache actually caches the query results for a given SQL query. To see if MySQL has query caching enabled issue the following command: mysql&#62; show variables like 'query%'; +------------------------------+---------+ &#124; Variable_name &#124; Value &#124; +------------------------------+---------+ &#124; query_alloc_block_size &#124; 8192 &#124; [...]]]></description>
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