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	<title>jay padinjaredath - preparing to be wrong</title>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a name, you ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We, being what we are, have mental models that immediately bucket words. This is why my good friend Rajesh Babu was ever critical of my loose use of words. If I wrongly use the word &#8220;I&#8221; instead of &#8220;We&#8221; he would ask patiently if that is what I meant. That was just one example.
Even more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2009/04/whats-in-a-name-you-ask/</link>
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		<title>What does Deming mean when he says . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We should end the practice of awarding business on the basis of pricetag alone.
Maiju asked me to elaborate, and this is my understanding of it. In manufacturing, which is the context Deming uses in his Out of the Crisis book, the idea is that you are providing a service to your customer. It really is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/12/what-does-deming-mean-when-he-says/</link>
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		<title>Dee Hock&#8217;s quote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Money motivates neither the best people, nor the best in people. It can move the body and influence the mind, but it cannot touch the heart or move the spirit; that is reserved for belief, principle, and morality.
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		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/11/dee-hocks-quote/</link>
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		<title>End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was #4 on Deming&#8217;s list.
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		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/11/end-the-practice-of-awarding-business-on-the-basis-of-price-tag-alone/</link>
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		<title>I wish the CSM was a little bit more rigid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish the Certified Scrum Master was not a certification at all. Maybe the introductory 2-day course just does that. I wish the words Certified and Master was used a little bit more sparingly. Perhaps the Practitioner certification should be the equivalent of CSM.
On a not so unrelated topic, the number of times I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/10/i-wish-the-csm-was-a-little-bit-more-rigid/</link>
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		<title>There is more to testing than automation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if its the dearth of good testers that causes this. But, I sort of get this feeling that there is some implicit assumption in the industry that a tester or a QA is someone who automates tests. This doesn&#8217;t resonate with my experience with that role. A QA is not a BA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/10/there-is-more-to-testing-than-automation/</link>
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		<title>Evolving excellence link</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to share this link from Evolving Excellence. Anything can go wrong when managing a project, or running an organization. It could be internal or external. In many cases you don&#8217;t have a way of predicting what might go wrong or when. But it helps to be prepared, not by some superfluous risk management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/10/evolving-excellence-link/</link>
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		<title>Incentives and contracts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you incentivize a person, you have to be ready for that person to try her best to maximize her incentives. Its natural. This is why you have to ensure that your incentives benefit the system as a whole. Individual incentives don&#8217;t necessarily benefit the greater good.
This is a paragraph I read today:
&#8220;Mitchell said ACORN [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/10/incentives-and-contracts/</link>
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		<title>Themes -&gt; Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have found Product Owners disinterested, almost, when we ask them for priorities at a story card level. This is usually because its too low-level. Its more important for the Product Owner to first prioritize at a theme level.
Whats a theme? A theme is a business process that can later be broken into story cards. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/10/themes-stories/</link>
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		<title>Tata Steel wins 2008 Deming Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Curious Cat.
Interestingly the most number of winners of the Deming Prize since 2000 are from India.
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		<link>http://blog.jayanthan.com/2008/10/tata-steel-wins-2008-deming-prize/</link>
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