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	<title>Conscious Development</title>
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	<description>Curious perversions from software development</description>
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		<title>What is your inner story?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behind every person is an inner story. A story that describes her world-view and thus her behaviour. The story may not be consciously written but silently adopted – and adapted &#8211; from local contemporary culture, childhood, genes and so on. All the books you read and stories you heard contributed to your story.
But there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2010/01/09/what-is-your-inner-story/</link>
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		<title>The essence of smart methodology is bridging the gaps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listening to Ivar Jacobson’s talk about closing the gap between business and IT gave me an idea, what software development methodologies are all about.
During the 50 years of software development we have seen a plethora of software development methods. Every ten years comes a new methodology, a new solution, to the same old problems we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/12/15/the-essence-of-smart-methodology-is-bridging-the-gaps/</link>
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		<title>GoodReads &#8211; what I&#8217;ve read recently</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by my colleaque&#8217;s post about best books on web development, I decided to share my list of books about software development on general. I found a good web site for sharing books and reviews, GoodReads. I&#8217;ve shared the most interesting books from past few years. Books vary from programming to designing, from project management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/10/23/goodreads-what-ive-read-recently/</link>
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		<title>Visual Studio 2010 editions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 is out, some new information about the packaging of the product is also revealed. Gone is the old jumble of nearly dozen different flavors. Now everything comes in three different products: Visual Studio Professional, Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate. The professional has similar concept than before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/10/20/visual-studio-2010-editions/</link>
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		<title>Day one at Scanagile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some highlights from the first day in Scan-Agile conference.
Mary Poppendieck &#8211; Leadership and Self-Organizing Teams &#8211; Incompatible or Synergistic?

Leader&#8217;s job is to keep the team from their comfort zone!
Too often &#8211; espeacially small &#8211; teams are aiming for consensus &#8211; leaving out most of the wisdom that individuals have. The leader has to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/10/15/day-one-at-scanagile/</link>
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		<title>Agile assists, Scrum saves, testing turns profit &#8211; or do they?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AKVA club of HETKY organized a seminar about agile, scrum and testing. It was a two-day cruise from Helsinki to Stockholm and back and there were many speakers from different backgrounds. There was a common (though unplanned) theme &#8211; doing agile is not easy.
Pia Ek: How one should regard agility contract-wise?
First talk was from Pia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/10/15/agile-assists-scrum-saves-testing-turns-profit-or-do-they/</link>
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		<title>What customers expect from their IT-partner?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I attended an evening organized by Tietotoviikko. They had a few presentations and an ending panel discussion having members from both client and supplier side and also a researcher.
The topics of discussion were IT-suppliers ability to keep their promises, customers&#8217; expectations towards their suppliers and what makes real partnership.
Customers expect commitment and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/10/04/what-customers-expect-from-their-it-partner/</link>
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		<title>Multi-competence required today</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s software development is more challenging than ever. Yes, in some part it&#8217;s a lot easier with higher generation tools compared to assembly languages, but I claim that requirements have raised even faster than the abstraction level in tooling.
Technological competence &#8211; programmer
My Colleaque Jouni had a nice post about what you need to learn in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/09/30/multi-competence-required-today/</link>
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		<title>WordPress MU in action</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I previously had three different WordPress installations, and it got a maintenance headache (although upgrades are relatively easy on current WP) and I din&#8217;t like fact that I had three different accounts, had to install plugins thrice etc.
Luckily, there&#8217;s an edition of WP that allows me to have multiple blog instances on one installation, namely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/09/26/wordpress-mu-in-action/</link>
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		<title>Linq to SQL is not dead meat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My old WP got hacked, and this post got deleted. Basically, all I said can be founf from Jouni&#8217;s post.
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		<link>http://samipoimala.com/it/2009/07/21/linq-to-sql-is-not-dead-meat/</link>
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