Monday, August 31, 2009

Meeting - Sunday 30th August

Today I(Dale) had a quick meeting with Will, our lead programmer, and the scripting is almost done!
Next weekend....fingers crossed. Legs crossed. Everything crossed.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Team meeting - Agile

This blog hasn't been updated because our work has been so disjointed and sparse lately - which is part of what this meeting helped address.
The meeting was attended by Will and Geoff and myself.
One of the main things to come out of it was how such a disjointed group can communicate and work together effectively. This has been on of the issues with staying productive and keeping everybody in the loop with what is happening elsewhere.
Geoff, our server admin - for lack of better words - is bloody brilliant. He explained how we can use Agile which is what larger and better organised software companies use for projects.
In my own (probably oversimplified) terms - this gives us all clearly defined roles, allows us to tell a 'story' about what is supposed to be happening, then to define a product backlog to start working through, one task at a time. This will allow for better planning, estimates, and troubleshooting. That is about where my understanding of it ends at the moment, but it seems like a winner so far. This system can then also be used for OSVR.
Our current target date for having the system up and running is Sunday August 10th. I am more confident about that after the meeting than I was before.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development
http://www.agile-software-development.com/2007/09/how-to-implement-scrum-in-10-easy-steps.html