Monday, May 25, 2009
Initial Sprint completed?
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
14:31
Yesterday's 5 minute tag-up took 14 minutes and 31 seconds - all is not smooth and research-land. It exposes a problem of no real time for team interaction besides the tag-up and emails. The more disruptive problem is planning around holidays (I have had ~1 holiday per week recently). One person on holiday in a two person team = no meeting. I have still called in, but have no work to report and can take no action as scrum master so there is little sense. We should have planned around them... next time Gadget, next time!
Short sprints + small teams + holidays = problems.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Marco... Marco?
Monday, May 11, 2009
False Starts
Since my team is separated by the Atlantic Ocean, we needed a software solution to still work together. I decided on the Agilo plugin for Trac. After all of the planning meetings, I had two days to get the software up & running and backlogs filled in before I left the country for a conference. I also had to give a research talk and finishing a poster - what could go wrong?