Shambling Towards Perfection

I started this book waaaay back in the good ol' days, BC. Before Coronavirus. And then the pandemic struck and blew up my placid dev existence. On Friday, March 13, 2020 at 4pm NMSU finally decided to allow us those of us who wanted or needed to, to work from home. I took the weekend plus 2 days to get my home office set up; I had a feeling this was going to go on longer than any of us thought at the time. That decision has paid off in spades as I was able to get a pretty sweet dedicated workspace set up, with a corner desk, my 2 personal monitors, my work monitor, my work tower, a printer/storage cabinet, and a new laser printer. Oh, and a nice office chair and one of those carpet protectors. Current me is very grateful to past me for having that forethought...  Anyway, I officially started working from home March 18. By that time NMSU was no longer "allowing" us to work from home by choice, but instead sending everyone possible home. In less than a week we had to move n...

Last night I started dismantling my Wall o' Stickies representing my product backlog and finished items,  and before I did so I figured I'd take some photos to commemorate all the hard work documented on my walls. Here's the final state of the backlog and finished item areas: As you can see I started to run out of room in the finished section there at the end. And here the finished items are, nicely stacked into piles for each sprint: The backlog contains a lot of items that were OBE (overcome by events) by being rewritten and implemented in a slightly different way, plus some ponies and things that turned out to be too big or not necessary after all. I'll have to go back through these later this summer and get rid of the OBE items and rewrite the rest. Some of them I would still like to implement, so I'll probably do a sprint or two and knock out a few items. Plus there were a few bugs that turned up at the end, so I do need to fix those. So there are...

Just for fun, and because I don't have a whole lot to report right now, here's my current home office set-up. These photos were taken after I'd gotten most of the product backlog completed, but before I started on any sprints. Whiteboard (made from shower board from Home Depot), bookcase containing all my computer science and math books, electric kettle for a steady supply of caffeine, and computer tower. Monitors, printer/scanner, plasma ball, headset, speakers, printer, and desk. Corkboard, small magnetic whiteboard, and plastic drawers for computer parts. Product backlog, sprint backlog, burndown chart, sprint progress board. Microwave, fridge, footlocker for non-perishable snacks and tea, and a second shower board whiteboard. Large calendar with which to plan sprints. So if the zombie apocalypse comes, I'll be able to survive for some time in my home office, and keep coding all the while. Nothing, dead or undead, shall keep me from fini...