<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Ken H. Judy</title>
	<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy</link>
	<description>Scrum, XP, Management and the Ethics of Agile Software Development</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 19:35:21 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/abc" -->

	<item>
		<title>Taking a break&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/taking-break/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>This man is why my father became an engineer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a boy growing up in West Virginia, my father wanted to study science but a high school teacher convinced him he had no talent for it. That man was not why my father became an engineer. My father joined the Navy, served in the Korean War and became a non-commissioned officer. While enlisted, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/man-father-engineer/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>More well-wrought crap lovingly crafted for your disposal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- or &#8211; building the wrong thing, really, really well. The epitaph of many agile teams. You can optimize your construction practices as much as you want but if there is no discernible need for what you&#8217;re building&#8230; The goal is not to build crap well. It is to find a way each day to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/wellwrought-lovingly-crafted-disposal/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Agile software development: business value and human values</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written about agile software development as an ongoing, perhaps excruciatingly gradual, conversation on the definition of value. We need a place at the conference table. But we also need a forum and language to discuss the human values behind the way we aspire to work. “&#8230; I&#8217;ve got to have more experience with junior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/agile-software-development-business-value-human-values/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Agile software development and &#8220;value&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As advocates of agile software development we focus on practices. The hype on those practices is they produce software, &#8220;faster, cheaper, better.&#8221; And we sell our efforts with the promise of, &#8220;delivering value.&#8221; We speak of value as if the definition is shared, self-evident, contained within our backlogs and measured by our burn ups. At [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/agile-software-development-value/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Installing Thoughtworks Mingle on the Amazon cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had to install an instance of Thoughtwork Studio&#8217;s agile project management tool, Mingle. My favorite tracking tool is Excel but such is life. The instance does not need to be highly-available but I don&#8217;t want to risk data loss and I want to minimize the cost of hosting. So I decided to put the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/installing-thoughtworks-mingle-amazon-cloud/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Flatbush Venue &amp; Ocean Avenue Brooklyn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some more pictures of Flatbush and Ocean by the Prospect Park subway station.]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/flatbush-venue-ocean-avenue-brooklyn/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Prospect Park Subway Station Ticket Booths</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the MTA decided to lay off station agents. They made sure there&#8217;d be no easy way to reverse the decision&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/prospect-park-subway-station-ticket-booths/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Update requires that you quit update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I realize Microsoft AutoUpdate and any particular Microsoft Office update are two different executables but since the first launches the second, this dialog box strikes me as a plea for assisted suicide. The fact that it always comes up makes me think Microsoft could have spent time on a more elegant solution. That fact that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/update-requires-you-quit-update/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Agile NYC Presentation Handout</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a draft handout from my presentation at &#8220;Agile NYC&#8221;, Instilling Agile Values for Creativity, Self-Improvement and Organizational Change – A Manager’s Perspective. http://idisk.mac.com/kenjudy-Public/papers/agile-values-outline.pdf]]></description>
		<link>http://judykat.com/ken-judy/agile-nyc-presentation-handout/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
