agile
Agile (XP) Game
Feb 1st
Last week we had the excellent opportunity to host the agile, XP planning game at Plug and Play in Midvalley, KL. We had a lot of fun, and from what we saw after the game, so did the participants – it’s a great ice breaker, and great learning tool to understand the complexities of XP Iterations. We took pictures too, and they can be found here!
At the end of the games, a bunch of the participants asked us about our presentation slides. We had feedback that the slides were awesome – as the instructions were very clear – and we’re glad to hear it was so 
. As a consequence, we’ve uploaded our slides on scribd (it’s being processed, so check back soon for a link! UPDATE: here it is!)
If you’re interested in organizing the game for your organization, you can check out Vera Peeter’s (Tryx) and Pascal Van Cauwenberghe’s (Nayima) XP game setup. If you want us to host it (which we’d be happy to ) you can contact us here
If you participated in the games we had last week, tell us what you think in the comments below!
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Sprint Review & Retrospect Meeting
May 26th
ahh… the good ol meetings… i used to think meetings kinda wanna make you feign sick and take leave… (then go and watch a movie… but that’s a different story…)
We just did the Sprint Review and Retrospect meetings for one of our projects. took us about less than 2 hours… we’re a pretty small team…
One thing we noticed was that when you keep improving on what you did on the last sprint, you get more – even tho it might be just abit – excited to go work on the next sprint. we realized that its because, doing the same thing for people who don’t leave their brains at home when they go to work is just plain boring and disengaging.
improvements bring fresh air… we’ve got 6 things to improve on the next sprint… and we’ve still got a long way to go… hang on!
prototype and scriptaculous is gonna have to wait a bit… we’re gonna need to tackle the really meaty stuff first… Basic Ruby for the team! oh god…
The Wall is up and moving!
May 13th
The wall is now up and moving!
We skipped some processes in setting this up, cause, well, the development was already on way, but it did clear up some stuff for us…
Can’t give you the project topic yet, more on the project itself soon. but you could probably get an idea from the wall… and by the way, it looks a little bare, but that’s coz we’ve got only 1 developer… doing 1 thing at a time…
Unlike the normal ’spit spraying’ methodology of meetings, the wall actually helped us see where we’re going, focus on the more important issues, and track progress – hey, it’s like 3-in-1…. mmmm… hot coffee…
Also, we realized that, at least for this project, we could do away with the Product Backlog and burndowns – its a simple system development. It all depends on the conditions of work, so we’ll let that tell us what needs doing for now – at least until we’re better at this.
