My first Agile post-its
Monday, February 15th, 2010
My current project is beeing managed in Agile Software Development.
I must admit that I was quite a little suspicious but my first steps are positive.
The main point, as part of the Game Team, is that i know far more about the activities of my collegues: it’s a Team Play. During the Stand-Up Meeting, everyone talks about his work yesterday and his plans today. It’s the moment to communicate on your trouble, most of the time others met them too. Usually, you are working on a functionality close to your collegue next door and you don’t even know. Or maybe you have a brillant idea that may interest. Anyway, your daily work is clear for the team. So, priorities can be followed.The development team follows “as much as possible” the Extreme programming best practices as Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, Design Patterns.
But I have also discovered some limitations. The functionnal specifications are divided in pieces into greenpeppers. Therefore, it is hard to build a global specification interpretation and get into the project.
Key Words: Greenpepper, Hudson, Checkstyle, Cobertura, PMD, FindBugs