Ahh, vast improvement on last sprint!

We met Janet (the Customer) and not only did we impress by asking if she would like coffee, we had refined our approach, presented what we had done and explained it clearly. Despite not having that much completed it actually look far more impressive than I thought it would.

As a team a lot of hours and work went into this second sprint and it was great to see that it had paid off and that most of the points that hurt us last time round had been resolved. We could have been more organised on what would be done in the theoretical third sprint but that really slipped our minds.

I am glad I threw in the little launcher application at the last possible minute, otherwise we would have needed a recompile mid demonstration, that would have been about as bad as showing raw XML or opening the sprint backlog spreadsheet (despite the fact I am quite proud of how I got that looking in the end, and thanks to Alan I learnt how you can restrict the values of a cell).

We did need to go back after the review and just tidy up a few loose ends for our coursework. Rory and Stacey made a really cool white box testing diagram, Alan and Paul finished up the black box testing and I sat and frantically collated all of our code, tests, backlog, etc.

I really enjoy the feeling of a team working together like that, even better against a deadline as it makes me work that bit harder.

So, as far as the review goes, amazing improvement and I really do hope everyone else feels the same.

Note to Janet:

This post and the one after it were written on Friday however I could not post them till Sunday evening.