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		<title>The final STANZ 2011 video: Karen Johnson, working on a distributed team</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2012/01/24/the-final-stanz-2011-video-karen-johnson-working-on-a-distributed-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first video of 2012 and we&#8217;re looking back to STANZ 2011 where Karen Johnson gave a keynote presentation on working with distributed and virtual teams. This is an area which Karen has a lot of personal experience with as she works with clients and colleagues all over the world. She gives a lot of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The future of testing?</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2012/01/16/the-future-of-testing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:31:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Robson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be a lot of discussions around right now about the future of testing, which direction is testing going, what skills will we need, etc. This all seems to depend on the technology under test, the lifecycle being used, and of the level of &#8220;Certification&#8221; of the testing team. Quite ironically I don&#8217;t even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The conference you can&#8217;t afford to miss</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2012/01/12/the-conference-you-cant-afford-to-miss/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2012/01/12/the-conference-you-cant-afford-to-miss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.softed.com/?p=1039</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been dreaming about conferences. Not the most exciting topic for most people but I love them, mostly because after a day or two with a lot of like-minded people and stimulating conversation I am, although pretty tired, also really fired up and energised about work. One of the reasons that SoftEd has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Post: Tips For Measuring Soft Skills Programs</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/12/08/soft-skills-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/12/08/soft-skills-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employee retention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.softed.com/?p=1021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Soft skills &#8211; those oh-so-important qualities such as adaptability, critical thinking and creativity &#8211; are what&#8217;s needed to bridge the gap between good and great employees. Unlike black-and-white technical skills, however, these types of competencies often fall in a grey area of subjectivity. Given the value organisations place on soft skills, it&#8217;s essential for human [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STANZ 2012 news and STANZ 2011 video</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/12/06/stanz-2012-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/12/06/stanz-2012-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to share another video from STANZ 2011. This time Jan Jaap Cannegieter presents his keynote on test process improvement: Only by involving stakeholders outside of test processes will an improvement in the test processes be accomplished. The process areas we as testers can fully control are pretty mature. The process areas where we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BA Brazil &#8211; A Great Conference in a Great Place</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/30/ba-brazil-a-great-conference-in-a-great-place/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/30/ba-brazil-a-great-conference-in-a-great-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shane Hastie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Analysis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was privileged to be invited to present the keynote talk at the BA Brazil conference in Porto Alegre last week.  I had a fantastic time and met some amazing people. This was the first BA conference in Brazil, and the Business Analysis community is steadily growing in that country. The conference attracted over 260 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BA Assess Case Study &#8211; Chris Lewis</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/29/ba-assess-case-study-chris-lewis/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/29/ba-assess-case-study-chris-lewis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re preparing for a CCBA® or CABP® exam it&#8217;s helpful to do a &#8216;mock&#8217; exam and see what you know, and what you need to work on. Chris Lewis decided to use the SoftEd BA Assess tool when he studied for his CCBA® qualification. Below he tells us how he found out about it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shane Hastie runs training courses in Saudi Arabia and Brazil</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/25/shane-hastie-runs-training-courses-in-saudi-arabia-and-brazil/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/25/shane-hastie-runs-training-courses-in-saudi-arabia-and-brazil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 03:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.softed.com/?p=957</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[2011 has been a busy year for Shane who has been clocking up air points delivering training courses for SoftEd. Earlier this year he went to Israel and the U.S. to deliver training for M86 Security and run a workshop at Agile 2011. More recently he has been over to Saudi Arabia and Brazil. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New SoftEd Conference: Fusion, Sydney 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/21/fusion/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/21/fusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Stevens]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.softed.com/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We are excited to announce that we are hosting a new conference in Sydney in 2012: Fusion &#160; You may have already heard that we cancelled our two existing conferences in Australia, SDC and STANZ. The reason we did this was to bring them together in the most comprehensive software development conference we have ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Introduction to the Volere Requirements Techniques</title>
		<link>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/09/volere-requirements-techniques/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.softed.com/2011/11/09/volere-requirements-techniques/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SoftEdMan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Robertson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mastering the Requirements Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Requirements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suzanne and James Robertson are principals and founders of The Atlantic Systems Guild and joint originators of the Volere* requirements techniques. They have written many articles about requirements and we&#8217;d like to share one with you. It covers the main principles of the technique and why it is useful. For even more information sign up [...]]]></description>
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