Monthly Archive: June 2014

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Blogging Schedule Change!

Quick Note: Starting this week I’ll be switching from daily blogs to weekly blogs or just posting when I have some notes, a project review, or some other share-worthy information to publish. We were asked to write daily blogs for...

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Auxano Sprint 6 Review & Retrospective

Week 8 of boot camp came to a successful end today as we wrapped up Auxano sprint 6. The boot camp team went out to eat at Liberty Burger and sat at the same table we ate at on the...

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Day 39 – USA! USA! USA!… and Robots!

You know you’re working for a great company when the CEO walks into the break room wearing a USMNT soccer jersey, and watches the world cup game with everyone else! USA lost to Germany 0-1, and Portugal beat Ghana 2-1 resulting...

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Day 38 – Auxano Sprint 6

I can’t wait to look back at these blogs in a few months or years and wonder what in the world I was thinking writing all this and putting it on the internet for all to see. #oversharing. Scrum: Yesterday...

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Day 37 – Auxano Sprint 6

It’s still difficult to believe we’re in boot camp week 8 of 8, sprint 6 of 6, and almost done with this crazy experience and on to new things (unless we stick around on project Auxano for a while longer)....

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Day 36 – Auxano Sprint 6

We took care of planning our sprint this morning, and then David and I got to work on the Engagement views and controller. I started the afternoon off by separating the Engagement model, controller, and views from the Time Activity...

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Day 35 – Auxano Sprint 5 Retrospective

I wrote a bunch of stuff about our “sprint review” today, but I decided to delete all of it in favor of a personal retrospective on our boot camp experience so far. Today was our last day in the little...

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Day 34 – Auxano Sprint 5 – Data Persistence!

Today we presented the Auxano application for the “Thirsty Thursday” crowd at the Addison Office! Jon and Walton did a great job introducing us and running the demo (thank you, guys!). Those watching seemed receptive and we got some positive...

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Day 33 – Auxano Sprint 5 – Data Persistence!

Seven days left of boot camp! Whaaaaat. Scrum: Yesterday we got an example of a SQL setup, teardown, and test courtesy of Jef, then we adapted that for use in our various tasks. I worked with Jon on setting up...

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Day 32 – Auxano Sprint 5 – Data Persistence!

This week’s sprint goal: Data Persistence! Scrum: Yesterday I doubled my hands-on knowledge of SQL and database tables, and helped plan out this data persistence sprint. Today I’m working with Jon on the time activity entry feature and connecting that...

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Day 31 – Auxano Sprint 5 – Database

Since Friday’s blog was short (except for the hour-long video), let’s get caught up. Scrum: Friday we had our sprint 4 review and retrospective, today we’re starting sprint 5 and hopefully wrapping up some unfinished stories from previous sprints. No...

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Day 30 – Auxano Sprint 4 Review & Feedback

Project Auxano – Sprint 4 Review Six weeks down, two to go! This week was a very long week for us, and while there is much I could write about, I’m going to settle for just sharing our sprint review video....

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Day 29 – Auxano Sprint 4 & Scrum Mastering

I was worried yesterday that we might not complete all of our tasks for this sprint, and unfortunately it looks like we’re going to come up a bit short before the cut-off point tomorrow. We’ve had a LOT of un-planned-for...

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Day 28 – Auxano Sprint 4 & Scrum Mastering

The second half of this week is gonna be intense. Trying to do extra scrum master things on top of regular developer tasks has now been added to a few unexpected extra non-sprint-work things I have to do by the...