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		<title>Software For Code Reviews For Only $5! A 5-Day Offer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The SmartBear company celebrates the version 5.0 of its product CodeCollaborator and makes a great offer to sell 5 licenses of its lightweight product CodeReviewer for only $5! This offer will be available for only 5 days: July 13-17, 2009 only. I was very interested in the offer and made the effort to read a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2009/07/14/software-for-code-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Funny Computer Quotes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny quotes about computers and programmers. Enjoy! &#8220;How many hardware engineers does it take to change a light bulb?&#8221; None: “We’ll fix it in software.” “How many software engineers does it take to change a light bulb?&#8221; None: “We’ll document it in the manual.” “How many Microsoft engineers does it take to change a light [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2009/07/08/funny-computer-quotes/</link>
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		<title>What Kind Of Programmer Are You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time ago, at the dawn of the computer era there were funny legends about The Real Programmer who writes only in FORTRAN, drinks a lot of coffee and beer and NEVER, I mean NEVER writes comments. Today the things are different and the programming is not that mystery magic it used to be and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2009/06/02/what-kind-of-programmer-are-you/</link>
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		<title>Krishna Kumar Did An Interview With Me On Software Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My fellow blogger Krishna Kumar from Thought Clusters asked me a few questions about the situation of the software industry in Bulgaria and my blogging inspirations. His blog is devoted to project management and he has original ideas about how to manage people. I think he believes that we lack some thinking and understanding for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2009/03/24/krishna-kumar-did-an-interview-with-me/</link>
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		<title>My First Article In Quality Matters Magazine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first issue of the Quality Matters magazine is out and there you can find my first article in a magazine called Why Cutting Off Testing When The Project Is Late Is A Bad Idea. The magazine is available only online in PDF format and you can download it absolutely free (52 pages!) from its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2009/01/14/quality-matters-1/</link>
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		<title>Follow The Sun &#8211; Tips For Offshore Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bas de Baar pointed me to this great advise for offshore distribution of the work process &#8211; Follow the sun: Build in Asia Design/Review in Europe Test in South-America Every day. Every 24hrs. Well, I am starting to believe that this is a great way to speed up the process but a small devil in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2008/09/17/follow-the-sun/</link>
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		<title>My day-to-day work as a Business Analyst</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today our guest-author is Peter Lefterov &#8211; a business analyst at Bulgarian Telecommunication Company. I notice when I talk about Business Analysis people often have a very fuzzy idea of what I’m talking about. And the deeper I go into defining the profession from a general perspective, the fuzzier it gets. That’s why I decided [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2008/09/01/my-day-to-day-work-as-a-ba/</link>
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		<title>Top-down Planning &#8211; Good or Bad?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read recently an article in PM Hut blog by Keith Mathis where he categorizes top-down planning approach as a project management mistake. I didn&#8217;t agree with the author and I will try to put my arguments here hoping to start a discussion. First point of the author is that top-down planning is old style. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2008/08/28/top-down-planning/</link>
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		<title>CIO Top 100 Companies For 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CIO magazine announced the top 100 companies for 2008 that are creating new business value by innovating with technology. The chart in the magazine&#8217;s site shows the winners and their winning projects. For each company you can see their industry or revenue, their project type and the main technology, the primary business function and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2008/08/26/cio-2008/</link>
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		<title>Loyalty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great quote on loyalty by Stephen Covey. I found it in the Slacker Manager blog and I want to share it with you: You can buy a person’s hands, but you can’t buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is. - Stephen Covey Of course, it is the most difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://pmstories.com/2008/07/25/loyalty/</link>
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