How do we work? Agile
It’s not typical team. We don’t meet face-to-face each other on daily basis, one trouble is that we have to work from different time zones, and we have different operating system, the way of working, or even culture. But we are FOSSASIA Open Event team of six amazing developers so it does not discourage us to achieve our goals.
But even if we experience all these things we have to learn how to work together successfully. We are trying, and I think it is becoming better and better every day, the Agile methodology.
So first of all, before coding started, we had prepared user stories in issues. Every issue had been very well documented, and we had divided each issue to smaller ones. It brings us a lot of benefits, because it doesn’t matter where you work. If sub issue is empty you can take it. Due to the fact that issue is very well documented you don’t need to even ask someone what to do. This case saves a lot of time. I know that writing clear issues is very boring and It could seemed not to be beneficial, but it’s. We are still trying to improve our performance and we are looking for new opportunities where and how we can improve our work, without lost quality of our development process.
Then, we have one week sprint (milestones). It helps us to control our work and we know where are we, what have we done, and what is still to do. We know if our speed is enough or we have to move faster. And it also enables us to see our progress.
Moreover, we have daily scrums. We answer three following questions – what did you do yesterday, what do you plan to do today and what is preventing you from achieving your goals. Furthermore, we follow continues integration system. We push code to our common Open Event repository on daily basis. It helps us to control our code and fix bugs quickly. I am sure we will continue along this path, and successfully finish to code an amazing Open Event web app.
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