Writing code became more of fixing the bugs and tying up loose ends. Getting into the nitty-gritty, making the UI understandable and appealing to the eye. All of this is highly time consuming and often does not produce the same level of satisfaction as adding a new functionality and figuring the problem out. This is more of a fine tune of the existing code and takes a lot of time and rewards the programmer only sparingly.
Did I break something?
With small tasks and improvements on our sprint board we chugged slowly closer to completing this sprint. By the end of the night we came to the realization, that we needed to get more stories. We scheduled a meeting with our PO, who so conveniently is always here for us. We took on a few new stories and gave assessments to a few more, that we didn't dare to add to the sprint, but if we had the time, we could get started on them. Not pure Scrum, but in the duration of the sprint it will be beneficial. Remember when I said we will play paintball on Tuesday?
Yeah! We played paintball today! We met up at Männiku where we were provided with the gear and the battle commenced. The first two games on the open the Java team dominated and won them in a convincing manner. But then the change happened, we moved to the area with terrain and it was clear, that the superior wits of the .net developers would triumph here!
Yeah..No. I don't know what Java team was compensating for on the battlefield, I guess we will see during the demo on Friday. They took the two next rounds even with strong opposition shown by the .net team. The last two rounds were split by the teams. And in the final round the Java team gained the upper hand once again. A dominant victory for Java team, but it was fun for all participants. Great experience, great people!
