Shambling Towards Perfection

So, since my professor is still out on Christmas break (and so am I, for that matter) I asked my husband to be my accountabilibuddy. Yesterday I did a demo for him and showed him all the stuff I on which I worked during the sprint. He was suitably impressed. That's really about all I can say about the review, since I was unable to get any feedback from my adviser. I have also started pondering what I absolutely need to get done before the system is live, and I decided that really the primary thing is to get all the database schema changes done. So those will be my first priority in the next sprint. Some research was required to figure out exactly what changes are required for task dependency and subtask relationships, so I did that yesterday. I bought the book SQL Antipatterns some time ago, and it had a section on representing a tree structure in a database. The subtask relationships do form trees, as each task can only be a subtask of one task, but the task dependency relati...

So sprint 7 was finally finished last night. I ended up hardly being able to work on the project at all during what was supposed to be the sprint (December 10-24), so this was mostly done during the last week. Being off of work has, unsurprisingly, really helped increase the amount I can get done. So I'll do another sprint for the next week or so, and then in the middle or end of next week I'll work with my professor to get the project set up on his machine and usable for the spring semester. This means I'll need to get all database schema changes done ASAP. That'll be my first focus for the next sprint. During the sprint I finished all of the sprint backlog items. Those are: Set up git repository (1 hour), Rewrite edit user/task/project code (3 hours), Change email code as per discussion (2), Rewrite unfinished tasks page (3), Rewrite most recent tasks page (3), Rewrite blocking tasks page (3), Fix login error when user doesn't exist (1). I pretty quickly gave ...

The goal for sprint 7 is to create a git repo and finish the rewrite of the application, for reals this time. Including some of the items left over from last sprint, the sprint backlog items are: Priority Description Points 600 Set up git repository 2 590 Rewrite edit user/task/project code 4 580 Change email code as per discussion 3 570 Rewrite unfinished tasks page 3 560 Rewrite most recent tasks page 3 550 Rewrite blocking tasks page 3 500 Fix login error when user doesn't exist 2 This is a total of 20 hours, which, considering the time of year, seems more reasonable than 30ish. I'll also be doing some research on how to improve the task dependency/subtask relationships. Ideally I want to be able to display trees of these relationships (akin to comment trees on some websites), and this may require some database schema changes, all of which I want to get done in sprint 8 (before going live, basically). And that's it.