Sprint 2: Post 2

Sprint 2: Post 2

This was meant to be the final blog of this sprint. It isn't. We underestimated the amount of time required to finish the stories in this sprint and as a result we didn't have a build to test so I ended up being unable to QA test and that's a major requirement for the challenge for the next phase. We meant to challenge tomorrow but we have to push the challenge back to next week. 

Since we aren't challenging this week we'll need to challenge at every opportunity to reach the stage we have to be at in order to assure qualification for the final presentation. It's possible that we can qualify just from approval from faculty members but I don't want to rely on that. I think we can do it but we're going to need to work harder than we ever have before. I know I personally have been working harder than I ever have. This weekend I've woken up, gone to a work meeting and then gone home. I'm not complaining, I'm just saying we have a good start on the working very hard situation. The rest of the team says that they work on other classes during the week so I can't just schedule a work meeting every day unfortunately. People work very well during work meetings and if my assessment of their pace during work meetings is correct I'm sure we could reach our milestones easily if we had reasonable length work meetings as often as possible.

We need to ramp it up and I need to figure out how to do so in a way that doesn't kill the team and make them hate me. Work meetings don't make them hate me since I'm also there working and it builds camaraderie because they know I'm not just a lazy that sits atop my tower telling them what to do.