Pied Piper 2017 - Sprints
We are entering the final stages of the Pied Piper program, the team project. At the end of last years program we run an anonymous survey looking for feedback. A common observation was the lack of team work. Participants got to work on their own personal projects in a competitive fashion but no chance to collaborate and work together. One of the responses in the survey even described this lack as the desire to "experience what working in a start-up feels like" So for this year we devised a plan. We would spend the last 2 months working together to improve upon the app I developed last year for the presales conference. We generated lots of good ideas about how to improve it during the Hackathon . Modern Agile development use the term "backlog" to refer to this list of features waiting to be implemented. During the Cloud Native workshop we covered Agile development. There are two main Agile methodologies, Scrum and Kanban: Scrum goes through a series of short...