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	<title>Polymorphic Rants</title>
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		<title>Italian Agile Day 2009: date announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, 20th of November 2009, the 6th Italian Agile Day will be held in Bologna.

It&#8217;s a great opportunity to share experiences and practices, learn, discuss and meet other praticioners part of the  Agile community&#8230;and moreover it&#8217;s free  
I&#8217;ll see you there !
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		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2009/08/02/italian-agile-day-2009-date-announced/</link>
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		<title>What has to be ready for the beginning of  a project ?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of a project is always a hectic period where several things have to be put in place in order to be able to start the actual development from a solid position.
Interestingly enough, I see that what is important to have ready for ThoughtWorkers most of the time is not what has to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2009/07/05/what-has-to-be-ready-for-the-beginning-of-a-project/</link>
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		<title>QA productivity metrics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a lot of companies  the productivity  of a QA is measured through the number of defects she raised: the  more defects she finds, the harder she works, therefore the better she is.
This approach has an interesting corollary:  if you have really good QAs you don&#8217;t have good developers. If your QAs are finding a lot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2009/03/31/qa-productivity-metrics/</link>
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		<title>Local optimization doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean improvement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Delivering software is a pretty complex activity that requires interaction between people with different skill sets.
One of the cornerstone of Agile Development is continuous improvement, and one of the tool often used to learn and improve  is the retrospective.
In a context where the collaboration is not effective, people tend to look for local optimization instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2009/02/14/local-optimization-doesnt-necessarily-mean-improvement/</link>
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		<title>Acceptance Testing of Flex applications</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Acceptance Testing is a fundamental practice: it gives you confidence that your application behaves as expected from the end customer point of view.
In the Flex world there are some projects that are currently emerging in the Acceptance Testing space, each one with specific advantages and weak points.
Let&#8217;s have a look to some of these.
FlexMonkey
FlexMonkey Open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2009/01/26/acceptance-testing-of-flex-applications/</link>
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		<title>Signs of poor communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Walking in an office and just looking around for 10 minutes is enough to have a feelingof the level of communication in the environment.
When:

co-located people communicate mainly via IMs, mails, or comments on online collaborative tools instead of face-to-face conversation
a heavyweight tool is the preferred way for driving the work flow instead of using it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2008/09/28/signs-of-poor-communication/</link>
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		<title>Technology should leverage your business (a.k.a. REST anyone ??)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Technology is a exceptional way of improving your business.
The REST architecture is a good example; with a clear URL we definitively improve the effectiveness of our message. People will easily remember the URL and our product will be faster on the market (because people actually know how to get to our product).
Now this sounds pretty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2008/06/29/technology-should-leverage-your-business-aka-rest-anyone/</link>
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		<title>Flex: How to achieve proper separation of responsibilities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I was discussing on my experience with Flex and one of the highlighted pain points is the extremely poor quality of the available tutorials.
Let&#8217;s have a look at the source code of the Flick tutorial:

In a single page you have:

the declaration of visual components (TileList)
the declaration of non visual component (HTTPService)
event [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2008/06/24/flex-how-to-achieve-proper-separation-of-responsibilities/</link>
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		<title>Working with Adobe Flex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RIA is a pretty hot topic in these days; even in ThoughtWorks a lot of discussions are going on (if you have time you can check fellow ThoughtWorkers posts here, here and here).
Funny enough I&#8217;m quite involved in the discussion, due to the use of Adobe Flex in my current project.
So what is Flex ?
Flex [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2008/06/21/working-with-adobe-flex/</link>
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		<title>Article: Seniority, Respect, Authority and an Agile Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here on InfoQ some interesting thoughts around Seniority and Authority in an Agile team.
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		<link>http://www.lucagrulla.it/blog/2008/05/25/article-seniority-respect-authority-and-an-agile-team/</link>
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