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Agile Requirements that Make Sense

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Creating exceptional user stories is not the only key to help your team become a high performance agile team, but it is a piece to the puzzle.

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A Recipe for Enterprise Agile: Mixing Scrum and Smart

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Sure, you're a cowboy coder and you want to do things your own way, but you shouldn't unless it is very intuitive.

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The Linux Foundation's "Who Writes Linux" report details the pace of contributions and who is contributing the most to the open source platform.

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A mobile software developer claims Microsoft is planning a "massive" update to Windows Phone 7 for release early next year.

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The cloud tools vendor will help Red Hat fill out its Platform as a Service (PaaS) strategy.

• Novell to Retain Unix Copyrights

Following announcement of its sale to Attachmate and plans to divest much of its intellectual property portfolio, Novell confirms that it will hold onto its Unix copyrights.

• Oracle Moving Ahead With Java 7, 8

As it looks to separate Java 7 SDK into two separate releases, Oracle has issued the Java SE 7 and 8 release content to the Java Community Process.

• rPath Puts Windows in the Cloud

The new rBuilder 5.8 lets enterprises move custom Windows application stacks to the cloud.

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New open source project from Novell aims to harness network technology to develop a boot manager for system management and provisioning.

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While a recent redesign of the popular micro-blogging site was a significant advance, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says there's much more in the pipeline.

• Say What? Top Five IT Quotes of the Week

Leveraging the Google Wave protocol, big bucks in mHealth services, San Francisco's open data law and more.

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Hits the Stage

A decade in the making, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now available at long last, offering a litany of new features, including a new kernel and virtualization enhancements.

• Drupal Founders Secrets to Open Source Success

The head of the Drupal project details how the open source project became successful.

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• Say What? The Weeks Top Five IT Quotes

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Asterisk's latest open source project, the Scalable Communications Framework, is designed for large-scale deployments.

• Linux Foundation, Consumer Group to Merge

Responding to the growing crop of consumer devices running the open source operating system, ranging from e-readers to mobile phones, the Linux Foundation has thrown its lot in with the Consumer Electronics Linux Forum.

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Founder Mark Shuttleworth talks plans for the future of the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, including new form factors and expanding the developer ecosystem.

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