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GMT</pubDate><category>process</category></item><item><title>The importance of deadlines and other South Park insights</title><link>https://koel.cc/blog/the-importance-of-deadlines-and-other-south-park-insights/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://koel.cc/blog/the-importance-of-deadlines-and-other-south-park-insights/</guid><description>What South Park has in common with agile software development</description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>process</category></item><item><title>Top Gear and Agile tooling</title><link>https://koel.cc/blog/top-gear-agile-tooling/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://koel.cc/blog/top-gear-agile-tooling/</guid><description>How Top Gear shows that a physical scrum board is more valuable than its digital counterpart</description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>process</category></item><item><title>Scrum workshop for startups at 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GMT</pubDate><category>business</category></item><item><title>Award at the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010</title><link>https://koel.cc/blog/european-satellite-navigation-competition-2010/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://koel.cc/blog/european-satellite-navigation-competition-2010/</guid><description>From parking zones to space</description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>innovation</category></item><item><title>Pregnancy Ticker has been downloaded over 100.000 times!</title><link>https://koel.cc/blog/pregnancy-ticker-100k/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://koel.cc/blog/pregnancy-ticker-100k/</guid><description>An unbelievable milestone</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>app</category></item><item><title>Automatic zone allocation using GPS</title><link>https://koel.cc/blog/automatic-zone-allocation-using-gps/</link><guid 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