As the final full sprint comes to a close, I find myself wishing for just a bit more time to work. With the testing issues resolved, we were able to work much better than we have in the past, and with a newfound grasp of the technologies at hand. Had we begun the semester with […]
Intimidating in much the same way that The White Belt pattern is, Be The Worst encourages software developers to surround themselves with peers that have much greater skill levels. As the weakest member of a team, one has ample amounts of room to learn and grow. Practically speaking, due to the skill present in the […]
By stark contrast to all previous sprints, Sprint #5 was a violent roller coaster of efficacy. For the first half of the sprint, I continued in the role set for myself in the previous sprint: the guy who writes the tests. Up to this point, we had been using a simple set of tests for […]
I was particularly interested in this pattern the more I read about it, because it sounds incredibly similar in essence to keeping a journal – which is something that I already do. I had never considered maintaining a “Personal Practices Map” as they called it, but it sounds like a perfectly sensible thing to start […]
Hitting particularly close to home, the Learn How You Fail pattern seeks to instill in inexperienced developers the notion that failure is inevitable and manageable. As written in the Context of the pattern, “Someone who has never failed at anything has either avoided pushing the boundaries of their own abilities or has learned to overlook […]
This sprint was easily our best one yet. We were highly productive, completing a range of tasks concerning design, merging with other teams and test-driven development. Where the previous few sprints have illuminated the pitfalls and obstacles of Agile development to our team, this sprint gave us a feel for what it’s like when Agile […]
Concrete Skills is particularly relevant to those of us coming to the end of our college careers; the problem it talks about is one that is outside of the inexperienced developer’s bubble. Specifically, the pattern is concerned with hiring managers’ inherent level of risk when hiring somebody who may not be able to contribute to […]
Since I last read about Confronting My Ignorance, I thought that the natural next step (although in all likelihood, it was probably intended to be the previous step) would be to read about the Expose Your Ignorance pattern. I can certainly see where each of these ideas influences the other. Really, Expose Your Ignorance feels […]
As we move forward in this Ampath project, I have found myself dissatisfied with how unimpressive my command of the technology available (or the lack thereof) is turning out to be. As I browsed the list of apprenticeship patterns, “Confront Your Ignorance” leaped out at me the moment I noticed it. If there is a […]
This sprint, unfortunately, was cleaved in twain by Father Winter. There were multiple white-out blizzards, which resulted in numerous missed class meetings. This proved to be a serious blow to productivity. In the face of nature’s obstacles, however, my group did manage to get more done than we would have anticipated had we known how […]
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