Shambling Towards Perfection

This sprint went remarkably well. Being a hermit all weekend helped me to get as much done as I wanted to (and is probably the only way I could have gotten as much done as I wanted to in earlier sprints, but that really, really doesn’t work as a long-term thing unless one wishes to leave sanity behind). There was one item I started on and then realized I needed clarification from my advisor before I could complete it, but I got everything else done. I also didn’t do quite as much studying as I had intended; honestly I really, really don’t want to have to do this wretched studying, so I procrastinated. Anyway here are the items I did get done: Create outline for presentation. Gather study materials for oral exam. Fix task creation error where error message is sometimes shown though the task was created. Fix blocking tasks page. Fix task editing bug where the task creator can’t edit the title/desc. Study for the oral exam. (sort of, as discussed above) Move the task list on the...

During this next sprint, after figuring out the basic outline of my presentation, the main thing that must get done is fixing bugs. I’m going to do a quick demo of my software during the final exam, and so stuff needs to WORK. So those are the highest priority items. Anyway, here are the sprint backlog items: Priority Description Points 700 Create outline for presentation. 2 690 Gather study materials for oral exam. 1 680 Fix task creation error where error message is sometimes shown though the task was created. 3 670 Fix blocking tasks page. 3 660 Fix task editing bug where the task creator can’t edit the title/desc. 3 650 Study for the oral exam. 3 640 Move the task list on the project page to the top, above the project info. .5 630 Make subtasks indented on the task page. .5 620 Make the subtask and dependent task lists further apart on the task page. .5 610 Put a link on the task page going back to the project page. .5 600 Make the default task priority “normal”. 1 ...

The goal for sprint 6 is to finish rewriting the application, and to fix and prevent bugs and handle errors gracefully. There are quite a few items left from last time, so those are: Page Points Task 4 New User 1 New Task 1 New File Link 1 New Comment 1 Blocking Tasks 3 Most Recent Tasks 3 Unfinished Tasks 3 This adds up to 17 ideal man hours, which is a little low (hopefully; I like to try and stay optimistic!), so I want to add in a few more items to the sprint backlog. They are: Priority Description Points 510 Fix a bug with navigating to the projects page 0 (5 mins) 500 Fix the login error that occurs when the username doesn't exist in the user table 2 470 Wrap create statements and the fetching of the ID in one database transaction to prevent incorrect results 2 450 Update the application to handle errors nicely 5 This is another 9 hours, which brings us up to 28. I'm ever the optimist, so hopefully this will be the sprint where this is actually succes...