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W. Matthew Wilson asked a question in Pivotal Labs on May 21, 2009 14:08:

How do I see stories added to the icebox since some date?

At our weekly iteration reviews, we want to look at stories added to the icebox since last time. How can we do this?

W. Matthew Wilson replied on May 06, 2009 02:23 to the idea "Would love to have different velocity per team member" in Pivotal Labs:

It takes me four hours to do some HTML/CSS work but our graphic designer can probably finish the task in 30 minutes. Meanwhile, I might be the only one capable of writing a particularly nasty SQL query.

We would need to estimate each story for each employee, and then use some heuristics to figure out optimal assignments.

Agile is just silly on this point. Developers are NEVER fungible. There's always big differences in skill sets and familiarity with the codebase. Ignoring this fact leads to nonsense estimation.

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W. Matthew Wilson asked a question in Pivotal Labs on May 05, 2009 13:33:

Are you using a relational database or a document database like couchdb?

I watched the ajax requests go back and forth from the web page to the server and it looks like the server replies with something like a diff or a patch when the server has some new data.

So, I'm curious if you guys are using a database that includes some versioning built-in, like couchdb, or if you bolted that onto some relational system.

W. Matthew Wilson started following the idea "It would be great to add tasks to a story" in Pivotal Labs.

W. Matthew Wilson replied on March 27, 2009 14:24 to the idea "Story tasks" in Pivotal Labs:

In each iteration, I want to plan to finish about about 3 to 6 user stories. Each user story might include a dozen tasks, each task taking 2-8 hours.

The non-technical people get overwhelmed when looking at the list of tasks. The user stories are clusters of related tasks.

W. Matthew Wilson replied on January 31, 2009 20:29 to the problem "error saving file file:///" in Balsamiq:

Starting app, creating new file, then saving, works well.

The error file seems to happen when I clone an existing mockup and then save that, but it is intermittent.

Are there any log files that would be useful if I sent them?

W. Matthew Wilson replied on January 31, 2009 20:16 to the problem "error saving file file:///" in Balsamiq:

The problem is intermittent. If I restart my system, it sometimes goes away. Once I figure out how to reproduce it reliably, I'll let you know.

I'm using ubuntu linux. Here's what I see when I run Balsamiq Mockups version:

15:11:34 GMT-0500 loadFileFromDisk:version
15:11:34 GMT-0500 loadDataIntoMemory:version
15:11:34 GMT-0500 ERROR: could not load:version
15:11:34 GMT-0500 setCurrentPath:?0

I believe I installed 17 or 18, because I installed whatever was on your site yesterday.

W. Matthew Wilson reported a problem in Balsamiq on January 30, 2009 22:07:

error saving file file:///

I keep getting an error message error saving file file:/// when I try to save a new mockup.