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A View to Agile Requirements. The patterns, workshop design guidelines, and collaboration techniques I describe in Requirements by Collaboration are agnostic to product or software development method.
When I wrote the book, agile methods were beginning to gain in popularity. Fellow agilists tell me they find the book useful when they design and facilitate workshops for their agile teams. Yet some agilists ask me, "We have to constantly figure out our requirements-what to build, and when. How do I adapt requirements and requirements workshops to fit my agile project? " They're right about the need to constantly adapt requirements and elicitation practices.
One of your biggest challenges is ongoing-how to group and sequence requirements for optimal delivery. The Timing, Rhythms, and Patterns of an Agile Cycle Agile development and delivery rely on many short cycles with a clear cadence: iterations occur within multiple releases as you deliver the product successively.
Plan: define the product, release, or iteration. Agile Leadership Network - Accelerate Agility: Connect and Engage to Transform Your Enterprise. iCloud: What's in, what's out for MobileMe users. News June 27, 2011 06:46 AM ET Computerworld - Apple won't officially debut iCloud for months -- September is the bet by most -- but last week the company revealed more information about what the online sync and storage service will and won't include.
The news was especially welcome to customers already paying $99 a year for MobileMe, the 2008 service Apple launched to early teething troubles and poor press. MobileMe never attracted a wide audience, in part because so much of what it did could be cobbled together from free services and tools. Apple will drop iDisk, Gallery and iWeb services when it transitions MobileMe subscribers to iCloud this fall. Earlier this month, Apple announced that it would pull MobileMe's plug in 2012, months after it is to be replaced by iCloud. Apple's MobileMe-to-iCloud transition FAQ gave us some answers, and we pitched in with some others. Will I still be able to access my mail, calendar and contacts on the Web?
So with iDisk gone, what do I do? How to prep your Mac for Lion. Computerworld - Now that Lion has attained "golden master" status, it may be just days before Apple releases Mac OS X 10.7.
Only Apple knows the release date -- the latest rumors have it as July 6, maybe July 14 -- but you can prep your Mac now to make the upgrade go faster and more smoothly. Make sure your Mac can handle Lion Lion's system requirements are slightly different from Snow Leopard's, so you need to verify that your Mac can run the new operating system.
Select "About This Mac" from the Apple menu, and look at the "Processor" and "Memory" items in the resulting pop-up. Your Mac must have an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 or Xeon CPU for a processor. As for memory, you need 2GB or more. You can't do much about a processor that won't run Lion, but it's easy and inexpensive to boost memory in a Mac. You must be running Snow Leopard According to Apple, you can only upgrade to Lion from Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard. A five-license Mac Box Set sells for $179. Agile Alliance. Agile & Scrum. Scrum/Agile reading. Help.