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		<title>Volunteer Opportunity &#8211; Software Tester</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Software Tester for YouthNet (volunteer, remote/on-site, min 6 hours/week)
YouthNet is developing the latest version of our V-Base software, version 3. V-Base is the UK’s leading software for volunteering management. Developed by YouthNet in partnership with volunteering agencies, V-Base is a Windows based, easy to learn and use application. It has a range of tools to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=126&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Before we started with Agile</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/before-we-started-with-agile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivier Van Acker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a response on the (excellent) post of James Shore on the decline and fall of agile, where he discusses why agile often fails when implemented, I responded with what we did before we really started implementing agile; here is my response on his blog:
Very good post, although I would suggest also to focus on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=103&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agile development experiences</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/agile-development-experiences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spacebaboon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a developer at YouthNet for over 6 years now, and have written much of the code behind the do-it.org.uk website, as well as our other sites, TheSite.org and youthnet.org.
One of the challenges and opportunities of V-Base 3 is greatly improving and expanding how the V-Base client communicates and interacts with the central database [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=51&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>V-Base 3 joined by a new member</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/v-base-3-joined-by-a-new-member/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have read Olivier’s post on the joy of recruiting for a new developer.
Sofia joined and not long after her we had another addition to the team.  Although the recruitment process was less difficult, we had to define a list of criteria and go through loads of websites. After eliminating unsuccessful candidates, we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=43&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Camille</media:title>
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		<title>don&#8217;t forget to wipe</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/dont-forget-to-wipe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[just ordered some wipe-clean whiteboards. one of the downsides about working in an open-plan office next to a window is the lack of wall space. an agile project needs to surround itself with visual information&#8230; burn-down charts, ladders of story cards and preferably big white spaces for scrawling diagrams on etc etc.
one of the books [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=21&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yoga is not the path to Agility, Planning Poker is</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/yoga-is-not-the-path-to-agility-planning-poker-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Becoming Agile is not an overnight process. That’s at least one thing that Yogi Masters and Scrum Masters will agree on. Yoga was not the path to Agility for us. Our approach was somewhat more intellectual:  learning from our successes and errors and undertaking training.
So here we were, back to the classroom.
I had the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=14&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Camille</media:title>
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		<title>BLT</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/blt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i may soon be getting a new backlog management tool &#8211; can&#8217;t tell you how excited i am about this, saddo that i am.
for those of you who don&#8217;t know what i&#8217;m on about, one of my main responsibilities as &#8220;product owner&#8221; is to act as owner/custodian of the v-base &#8220;product backlog&#8221; &#8211; a looooong [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=15&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Agile Planning</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/agile-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/?p=13</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before going further into the arcane art of Agile planning, I think I should explain what my role is. As the project Tracker, I have to measure the team&#8217;s progress within and across the iterations (each iteration is 4 weeks long). Using these metrics, I’m working with the Product Owner (Tracey), to refine the release [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=13&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>hello volunteering world!</title>
		<link>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/hello-volunteering-world/</link>
		<comments>http://vbasedev.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/hello-volunteering-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[hello! bonjour! goeie dag! howzit!
today our v-base development blog is born. we&#8217;ve been talking about this for so long i can&#8217;t remember who came up with the original idea. anyway, we&#8217;re finally here. one of our aims for the first part of 2008 is to raise awareness/visibility of the work we&#8217;re doing.  we&#8217;re so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vbasedev.wordpress.com&blog=2944657&post=8&subd=vbasedev&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Tracey</media:title>
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