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Posts on agile software development, including Scrum, XP, Kanban, and others.

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But Facebook is using it?

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It seems that there is a new standard, pattern or best practice popping up on an daily basis. Is this really useful or does it just give us another set of hoops to jump through in order to do what we need to.
I recently came across the Opengraph protocol web page and the first sentence on the page mentions “…this is used on Facebook…”. I am sure that it is at this point that a lot of people reading the protocol home page decide that they will also have to use it. I mean if Facebook is doing it them I must as well.

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With the emergence of Project Management as a profession, formal planning processes are often regarded as absolutely essential to the success of projects and businesses.  However, while well documented processes of planning with set time lines and task allocations allow everyone in a project or business to understand exactly what needs to be done when, there is also the danger that too formal and rigid planning practices can hinder success by reducing flexibility in an ever-changing environment.

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Last week a couple of members of the SWAT team in Cape Town attended the first Scrum Gathering in South Africa. Organised by the Scrum Alliance, the conference was a great opportunity to mingle with others practicing scrum in South Africa as well as attend workshops facilitated by leading international scrum coaches.

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