After having a short pause caused by a team reduction, we re-started our team meetings again. The major difference is that we have changed a meeting format from every week 2 hours long team meetings to a SCRUM methodology approach.

There are a lot of articles about SCRUM, so I'm not going to describe this methodology in detail again. Anyone interested in such methodology can find a lot of articles and books on Internet. I also put some of my learning resources at the end of this article.

What I'm going to write here is what I expect from this change and what is a practical impact to the team.

A pleasant side-effect of enabling the gdm System Menu in OpenSolaris, as described in yesterdays blog - KDE 4.1.4 shutdown and reboot are now enabled within the session as well.

Currently OpenSolaris doesn't allow system reboot nor shutdown directly from the login screen (gdm). This short article will show you how to enable the System Menu in gdm and make it look like the following image.