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      <title><![CDATA[Looking back: what you have built]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A recap of the 6Ws methodology and how to keep using it: not as a one-off workshop, but as the quiet logic behind your planning, architecture, and delivery.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The 6Ws in practice: a timesheet and expense app]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A real-world walk-through of the 6Ws applied end to end: a timesheet and expense tracking application for a distributed consultancy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[When: planning, estimation, and prioritisation]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The When is where software planning meets project management. Time, effort, budget, and value, coordinated so delivery becomes predictable, visible, and measurable.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Where: the hosting strategy]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Where defines how and where the software runs. Reliability, cost, scale, security, and developer experience all meet at this layer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[How: technical design as a story]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A good How chapter reads like a guided tour. It introduces the actors, describes the conditions, and shows how each piece fits together so the reader trusts the system is going to work.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why: the business benefit]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If Who is the audience and What is the story, Why is the reason the story needs to be told. Without it, engineering becomes activity without impact.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[What: outcomes and actions]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Once you know who the software is for, the next question is what they need to do with it. This is where ideas become stories and stories become working software.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Who: the actors and users of the system]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Every system exists to serve someone. Skip the Who and you will ship features nobody asked for. Here is how to define it properly.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The 6Ws: a thinking scaffold for software that matters]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Before the sprint planning, before the architecture diagrams, before the estimates, six questions decide whether the software you're about to build is worth building at all.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Why mapping your data landscape is the key to smarter business]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Files live across spreadsheets, databases, emails, and legacy systems. Teams duplicate effort, leaders decide without the full picture, opportunities slip away. It does not have to be this way.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
      <category>Data Strategy</category>
      <category>Automation</category>
      <category>AI</category>
      <category>Governance</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[How AI automation is fuelling business growth]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[AI is no longer a novelty. It is embedded in the way forward-thinking companies operate every day. The gap is between companies that treat it as an experiment and those that treat it as essential.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>cardiff@enterpriseautomation.co.uk (Enterprise Automation Services)</author>
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