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		<title>Outside-In vs Inside Out &#8211; Comparing TDD Approaches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last month&#8217;s ScotRUG Brian Swan and I attempted to solve the TDD Avatars problem as a live recital in our chosen style. We each had 35 minutes. The videos are here: Brian&#8217;s Inside-Out TDD approach Matt&#8217;s Outside-In approach When Brian had walked us through his approach and solution at the last month&#8217;s meeting, he&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/08/31/outside-in-vs-inside-out-comparing-tdd-approaches/</link>
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		<title>The Fable of the User-Centred Designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agile software development is not really about burn-down-charts, unit tests, refactoring or code metrics or even pair programming. At it&#8217;s heart, it&#8217;s about building software that really works for the people who are going to use it. All those practices you read about are just tools that help you to develop software iteratively, so that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/08/30/the-fable-of-the-user-centred-designer/</link>
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		<title>Fix RubyMine 2.02 Cucumber Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re using the latest version of RubyMine (2.0.2) with the latest version of Cucumber (actually anything above 0.7), you&#8217;ll probably see this ugly warning when you try to run your cukes from within the IDE: The bug has been logged, and there&#8217;s a published workaround, but I wanted something a bit easier to use. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/08/25/fix-rubymine-2-02-cucumber-integration/</link>
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		<title>Belly Wants to Eat Your Tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I lead the team at Songkick through an Acceptance-Test-Driven re-write of their gorgeous web-ui, I&#8217;ve been thinking about problem of scaling a large suite of acceptance tests. By the time I left Songkick for the wilds of Scotland, it would take over 3 hours to run all the Cucumber tests on a single [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/08/23/belly-wants-to-eat-your-tests/</link>
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		<title>Battling Robots at Software Craftsmanship 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve submitted a session for the Software Craftsmanship 2010 Conference. It&#8217;s a redux of the Robot Tournament I ran at SPA2010. The idea behind the session is to simulate the life of a start-up software company. In the early rounds of the tournament, the priority for each team is to get a robot, any robot, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/08/18/battling-robots-at-software-craftsmanship-2010/</link>
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		<title>Hi-Fidelity Project Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If the only metric you use for measuring and forecasting your team&#8217;s progress is their iteration velocity, you&#8217;re missing out on a great deal of richer information that, for just a few extra minutes per day, you could easily be collecting. This is information that the team can use during the iteration to help spot [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/07/11/hi-fidelity-project-management/</link>
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		<title>Installing mysql gem on Mac OSX Snow Leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This old chore doesn&#8217;t seem to have become any easier lately. Here&#8217;s how to do it: http://blog.simb.net/2009/10/24/gem-mysql-with-mysql-5-1-on-snow-leopard/]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/05/27/installing-mysql-gem-on-mac-osx-snow-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Random Notes from SPA2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Usage-Centric Design Narrative Journey Maps Duncan Prefers the term Usage-Centred Design to User-Centric Design. There was a book reference here but I missed it. Narrative Journey Maps (NJM) are a way to model and visualise the steps a user has to follow as they try to achieve a goal. Each Step is decorated with: Comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/05/20/random-notes-from-spa2010/</link>
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		<title>Fancy a Game of Robots?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m running a session next week at the SPA conference where we&#8217;re going to have a battle between rival teams of programmers. I&#8217;ve been working on the tournament engine for the past few weeks and really picked up pace on it this week. I hadn&#8217;t realised it would be so much work! The thing is, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/05/14/fancy-a-game-of-robots/</link>
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		<title>Agile North 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be speaking at Agile North this year. The title of my talk is &#8220;The Lean Startup&#8221;, in which I&#8217;ll describe my experiences with an incredible young company I&#8217;ve been working with for the last couple of years. Here&#8217;s some more details about the conference: Friday 14th May 2010 &#8211; UCLan, Preston Price held at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.mattwynne.net/2010/04/26/agile-north-2010/</link>
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