Back in time Recap from Aug 14-20

This is an abbreviated recap since none of us really had time to post it while memory was totally fresh...

Nearly at release time, with the release being defined as a presentation to PAUG about our product and process, and having been completely stuck on the weekend session, Sam and I got together for an evening, and managed to get unstuck (see post “Unstuck”).

Given where we were at and the timeframe, we pretty much had to plan the enture PAUG presentation just before the presentation, but with the 3 of us working together with some notecards, we figured out what we wanted to say without much trouble. Our code was far enough along at this point that Sam was at least able to create a spike that demostrated actually generating expanded code from code with embedded macro definitions and expansion points, so we had something really worth showing.

I’d say we spent a little under 1/2 the time covering the product we’ve been producing, then covered the XP process for the remainder. There’s a lot to cover regarding the process, and there were a lot of questions, so we covered the planning part pretty thoroughly, then crammed in what we could of TDD, and gave some lip service to pair programming, etc. Finally, we made the pitch asking for more members to join the team.

The presentation seemed to be a big hit, and we had 3 people say they were definitely interested in working with our team.