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	<title>The Three Legged Pig</title>
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		<title>Blind Chance and Creating Opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 06:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man stands on the roof of his house while water is rising around him in the worst floods he&#8217;s ever seen. Along comes a boat, and the boatman says &#8220;Come with me, I will rescue you.&#8221;"God will save me, I do not need your help.&#8221; the roof bound man replies. Later, the water rises <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/blind-chance-and-creating-opportunity/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ground Control to Major Tom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 07:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say, I&#8217;m feeling in a most peculiar way. There&#8217;s a quote from Battlefield Earth I&#8217;d like to inappropriately throw in here, because it kind of helps to give you a sense of my frame of mind While you were still learning how to spell your name, I was being trained to conquer galaxies! <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/ground-control-to-major-tom/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How do I stop charity fundraising phone calls?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 05:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, my name&#8217;s Jim and I&#8217;m calling on behalf of the &#8230; And so started each day. Again, and again and again. About 30 times an hour, for 8 hours a day I sold raffle tickets for a charity. Or more precisely, I sold tickets for an organisation that raised money for a charity. Now, <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/how-do-i-stop-charity-fundraising-phone-calls/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Three Legged Pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 04:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we talk about Agile Project Management, Agile Web Development or Agile Management the story of the pig and the chicken always comes up: A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig and says, &#8220;Hey, why don’t we open a restaurant?&#8221; The pig looks back at the <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/the-three-legged-pig/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s who you know</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 05:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former McDonald&#8217;s executive Guy Russo had &#8220;retired&#8221; at 47. He had left his job managing the greater China region, had bought a house in Hong Kong and was doing some consulting. He had time to spend with his three children and work pro bono with his wife Deanne for a Chinese orphanage foundation. Then he <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/its-who-you-know/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unemployment blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an unemployed bum. Again. When I look at my work history, I can&#8217;t think of a time when I&#8217;ve had a stable job. And by stable I mean one where I thought I&#8217;d be able to continue working, with hope of promotion for a company that was also economically stable. My resume is <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/unemployment-blues/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Crucial Conversations &#8211; Tools for talking when stakes are high by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillian and Al Switzler</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was given this book by my boss because he felt that my communication style was too abrupt and that I needed to improve my listening and empathy skills. Well, that&#8217;s what I think he was trying to tell me &#8211; I wasn&#8217;t really paying attention because I tend to filter out a lot of <a href='http://cyber4.org/book-reviews/crucial-conversations/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Back from the brink</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry about the delay there folks, I&#8217;ve recently bought and moved to a new apartment, and am now in the process of changing jobs. I&#8217;ve got a few weeks off and so will be able to get back to updating the site more regularly, and do some site maintenance &#8211; like changing the theme. You&#8217;ll <a href='http://cyber4.org/other/back-from-the-brink/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Meeting madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 05:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think there are two types of meetings: essential, and really essential. I actually enjoy meetings, they get me away from my desk, and they provide an opportunity to get some input, for some decision making and to get dormant parts of my brain working again. Essential meetings are those required to keep a project <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/meeting-madness/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Back to agile fundamentals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;ve been trying to get my head around how best to deal with our heterogeneous development environment in an agile way. It&#8217;s easy to say a process is agile, much like we used to say software was user friendly. We just slapped a label on it that said User Friendly. Now I think we&#8217;re <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/back-to-agile-fundamentals/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Working with outsourced developers the agile way</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m beginning to think that Agile development is a metaphor for the ideal work environment where the client has a clear idea of what they want developed &#8211; maybe not the end product but at least a good sense of the direction they want to go in, the development team gets their work done <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/working-with-outsourced-developers-the-agile-way/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Sing the Body Electronic &#8211; A Year with Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier by Fred Moody</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This book, which covers the years from 1993 to 1995, is a depressing view of the inside of a multimedia project run by young, Generation X Microserfs who sincerely believed in the company vision. Although, with a company that large, that diverse and that disorganised, I think the vision couldn&#8217;t be seen for the re-organisations. <a href='http://cyber4.org/book-reviews/i-sing-the-body-electronic/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Managing client personalities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 06:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a project manager, I&#8217;m always dealing with different clients at different stages of their projects. And that&#8217;s one of the things I don&#8217;t understand about Scrum: managing the competing demands of various clients. I think one expectation of Scrum is that you are only dealing with one client and one project at a time. <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/managing-client-personalities/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Project Management With Scrum by Ken Schwaber</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agile project management methodologies, for me, still seem to be a new thing &#8211; mainly because I was out of the game for so long. Looking back pre-2000 at what we used to do with Microsoft Project, GANTT charts and all that, Agile methodologies seem to be a natural progression in the way of doing <a href='http://cyber4.org/book-reviews/agile-project-management-with-scrum/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Adaptive Project Framework: Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty by Robert K. Wysocki</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 07:41:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the bookshelves this year in the Agile Project Management category is Adaptive Project Framework: Managing Complexity in the Face of Uncertainty by Robert K. Wysocki Ph.D. So, the executive summary: I like some of the ideas presented in the book. I do however feel that in the context that I am working in every <a href='http://cyber4.org/book-reviews/adaptive-project-framework/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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