Turn-O-Phrase - Word Puzzles for Culture Buffs Play at Work for Museums and the Web in Denver, April 17 « Carbon Five Community Dana Mitroff from SFMOMA and I are running a session April 17 at Museums and the Web in Denver, CO called Play at Work: Applying Agile Methods to Museum Web Site Development. Our goal is to give attendees a taste of some of the novel activities we use to encourage collaboration, communication and fun while engaged in the messy business of creating web software. The session is intended to be interactive – we want attendees to try some of this out with us – which should be interesting given that the conference organizers chose to put us in the Grand Ballroom, the same room used for the conference keynotes. “Gather around, everyone!” Resources Here are some follow up resources for attendees who are intrigued and want to learn more. Effective User Stories for Agile Requir This series of slides by Mike Cohn is a good introduction to user stories as a means of capturing project requirements.
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La Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot - L'hebdo des ventes aux enchères La "loi musée" a finalement été promulguée, le 4 janvier 2002 par le président de la République. Rappelons que l'ordonnance du 13 juillet 1945 accordait un statut juridique mal adapté, concernant les seuls musées des Beaux-Arts, et ce de façon provisoire. Le nouveau dessein du législateur était donc double : unifier sous le label « musée de France » les différents musées en sauvegardant leur spécificité ; consolider le régime de protection des collections. À ces fins, une nouvelle institution est créée auprès du ministre de la Culture, un organe collégial, simplement consultatif, appelé à se prononcer sur toutes questions relatives aux musées et aux oeuvres enfermées en leur sein. Initialement désigné sous l'appellation de Conseil des musées de France, il a été renommé Haut Conseil des musées de France, afin de pleinement mettre en relief son rôle et son importance. Un collège indépendantCet organe dispose d'un pouvoir d'avis général sur la politique muséale.
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