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		<title>Shakir on CIO Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2009/09/25/shakir-on-cio-pakistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My partner Shakir talks to CIO Pakistan. Lots of insightful nuggets about the software industry and the business of software outsourcing in here. Watch it!!]]></description>
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		<title>Thieves in the outsourcing business</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2009/08/30/thieves-in-the-outsourcing-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m sure most of you are familiar with the verb (Steal) and how it is used to describe the spiteful act of the noun (Thief). I’m here to talk about a thief who stole from my company, directly attacked our employees and has tarnished the image of the offshore outsourcing software industry in Pakistan.]]></description>
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		<title>Procom 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2008/05/18/procom-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:16:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited by the faculty and student body at FAST NU to judge the Procom.Net 2008 Software Competition. Most of you may not know – FAST NU is one of the best engineering schools we have here in Pakistan. Think Stanford of Pakistan. I’ll let GIKI be MIT and LUMS be Harvard.
Anyways Procom has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse-Engineering Shakir – A recursive algorithm for problem solving</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2008/03/17/reverse-engineering-shakir-%e2%80%93-a-recursive-algorithm-for-problem-solving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Do I trust them?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How do I find an owner I trust?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[three step problem solving algorithm]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never went to business school and never learnt management. I was a software engineer and was entrusted to manage people in 2002 when I took over the family travel business. We were a small team of 15 people and I ended up doing everything – including sales, marketing, operations, hr, accounts and admin. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview Maddness</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2008/03/01/interview-maddness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; so i’ve met them all &#8211; software engineers, developers, coders, geeks, gurus, script kiddies, hackers, crackers, slackers and smooth talkers. I conduct between 35 and 50 interviews every month (about 2-3 every day). That’s an average of 500 interviews every year and would equate to 3 months of straight interviewing (each interview is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a pragmatic programmer?</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2008/02/20/what-makes-a-pragmatic-programmer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[india outsourcing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading &#8216;The Pragmatic Programmer&#8217; by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. I don&#8217;t think I could have done justice by paraphrasing their observations on pragmatic programmers &#8211; so here it is verbatim&#8230;.
“Programming is a craft. At its simplest, it comes down to getting a computer to do what you want it to do (or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Office Space</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2008/02/12/office-space/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 08:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has only been 15 months since we moved out from our “software house” on Hali Road into a classy 5000 sq. ft uber-tech, architect designed space in Clifton. It took us over 10 months to build and by the end of it we were tired, went way over budget, and ended up with one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘To date or not to date’ – How to make sure that your project fails before it even starts</title>
		<link>http://www.umairaziz.com/2008/01/26/to-date-or-not-to-date/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Umair Aziz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m looking for project managers to help me out with some new projects. I have interviewed at least 25 candidates in the past couple of months; some with just 6 months and some with 16 years of experience. I always ask how these managers estimate time and effort and come up with release dates for [...]]]></description>
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