Iteration #1 – Day #9 Thursday 12/19/2002

Today was a regular working day. We came, we coded, we went home. We did make a couple of design decisions and the design of a couple of components is changing as we better understand what we are building. I keep waiting for someone to complain about constantly changing interfaces, but people are just stubbing out the return results for know. I should check in to see what the tests look like. Mock objects are something we have on tap for a training brownbag and seems like a technique that could be useful.

I was discussing with the director some of the goals it looked like we are going to miss as tomorrow is the last day of the iteration and nothing is "officially" done. Although, most of the code etc is done, just waiting for dependancies to be completed, or data to become available. He indicated that in his view the entire iteration was a complete success in his view since we were able to get a defined feature developed and tested in a 2 week period. Stepping back a couple of steps allowed me to appreciate what we had accomplished - not bad for a shop that used to have 6-9 month waterfall projects.