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Comment on Multiple partitions on a USB key drive by JP

JP — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:46:44 +0000

Did you ever get this thumb drive to boot from the different partitions? I followed all the steps and can create multiple partitions on my drive. I used UNetbootin as well but the thumb drive will not start, even with one formatted partition.

Comment on When is a Task ‘Complete’? by boggin

boggin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 09:24:44 +0000

I think you’re right, Kevin, I should have used ‘Complete’ and kept ‘Done’ for the workitem or story. I’ve updated the original post. Thanks!

Comment on When is a Task ‘Complete’? by Kevin E. Schlabach

Kevin E. Schlabach — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:40:58 +0000

Ah! I’ve never heard anyone use the done term on tasks before, only stories… now I understand your original post better!

We say things like “code complete”, “analysis complete”, but DONE is reserved for the story.

Also, our product owner wouldn’t approve tasks, only stories.

Comment on When is a Task ‘Complete’? by boggin

boggin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:42:04 +0000

Very true, Kevin, it’s best not to be prescriptive.

Perhaps these items match up better with Balanced Agile where engineering chores support the process through, for instance, automating the running of unit tests and acceptance tests.

I was referring implicitly to the Tasks that are part of Story when I wrote that the workitems could be accepted. This is clearly misleading, my apologies, as I meant the Tasks rather than the whole Story. We can mark each Task ‘Done’ and still fail to complete the Story, as you pointed out. We can confidently split a story to the next Sprint, however, as we have automated tests to prove the work that was done for the completed Tasks.

Comment on When is a Task ‘Complete’? by Kevin E. Schlabach

Kevin E. Schlabach — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:11:49 +0000

Simply put, “DONE” is the full list of stuff the team needs to complete to put the story (set of tasks or full work effort) behind them. If there is work still remaining then it isn’t done because this work will either become technical/business debt, or will delay the next work while it is being completed. This is why done can’t be measured by deployed.

This is also why teams I work with are allowed to use the word “complete” somewhat freely, but they use the word “DONE” with respect and reservation.

For every team, this list is unique… and every team should manage/evolve it as they mature. It is a critical part of agile success.

Oh yeah… and it should be filtered through the lens of business value (not tech complete), but this isn’t an issue if your team is cross-functional.

Comment on Installing Aptana Studio 1.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 x86 by LJJ

LJJ — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:51:10 +0000

Thx men xP!!

Comment on VoIP on Orange Nokia N82 by boggin

boggin — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 10:54:45 +0000

You can always rebrand your phone again, I believe, but I'd find out where your local support are based just in case. There are good forums at The Nokia N82 Blog if you want to try asking your question of a wider audience.

Comment on Installing Aptana Studio 1.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 x86 by Azrael

Azrael — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:32:56 +0000

Thanks a lot for this professional post. I was really worried about the other “how to’s” and finally this worked very well for me. Thanks again and keep your style up leading and guiding the “noobs”

Comment on VoIP on Orange Nokia N82 by Samppa

Samppa — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:51:48 +0000

Hi,
I’d like to get VOIP working as well by de-branding, but as I’m using line 2 utility on my N82, I’m a bit worried that I might disable this. Have you got any ideas, whether this might be the case?

Cheers,
Samppa

Comment on Installing Aptana Studio 1.2 on Ubuntu 8.10 x86 by d3u

d3u — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 04:31:41 +0000

thanks for the steps, the other guides gave me still the same error, the only difference is they used /firefox instead or /xulrunner…they wanted me to install firefox2 just to make it work…

thanks again!