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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/three-legged-pig/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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://cyber4.org/?p=733</guid>
		<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/three-legged-pig/i-sing-the-body-electronic-%e2%80%93-a-year-with-microsoft-on-the-multimedia-frontier-by-fred-moody/' 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/three-legged-pig/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/three-legged-pig/adaptive-project-framework-managing-complexity-in-the-face-of-uncertainty/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>One way of thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, before we get to an analysis of Scrum, and what I consider its deficiencies for the type of work that I&#8217;m involved in, we&#8217;ll go and have a look at some other Agile Project Management methodologies. One I found a little while ago, Anamorphic Web Development, sounds interesting. However, let&#8217;s dig a little into <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/one-way-of-thinking/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mr Grumpy in (and out of) Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my (now finished) journal about daily life in Japan (and elsewhere.) In April and May of 2002 I travelled around Japan for a long holiday &#8211; my first overseas holiday. And then, from the 13th of February, 2003 I lived in Fukuoka city, Kyushu. I taught at NOVA, FCC, ECC and the YMCA, <a href='http://cyber4.org/injapan/mr-grumpy-in-and-out-of-japan/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A committed pig</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, there&#8217;re a pig and a chicken walking down the road. &#8211; stop me if you&#8217;ve heard this one. I&#8217;ve recently started working as a project manager in a web development company in North Sydney. I have a long background in web development, stretching back to 1996. (Well, I first used a computer in about <a href='http://cyber4.org/three-legged-pig/a-committed-pig/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>All Good Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Richards</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Must come to an end. So that&#8217;s it. Out of Japan, back in Sydney. I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to do with myself. Each day just comes as it comes. I have a lot of down time at the moment, so I&#8217;m getting a lot of books read, and doing a lot of thinking. <a href='http://cyber4.org/injapan/all-good-things/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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