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Building a news product with agile practices: How we’re doing it

The Crunchberry Project is using agile software development practices as we build a new product for the Cedar Rapids Gazette.  On the team blog, I’ve begun writing a series of pieces detailing our process.
Part one was a brief attempt at defining agile and explaining why it’s important:
What can happen in a year?  Twitter catches on.  [...]

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Creating community connections in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids, Iowa was hit with one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history this June, when the Cedar River rose past it’s 500-year flood plain to 31.2 feet, flooded 1,300 city blocks, and put most of the downtown area under water.
When we visited the Gazette, Cedar Rapid’s daily paper a few weeks ago, [...]

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