Today I had more luck with the trams and arrived to work around 9 AM, finally. We waited for the whole team to show up and eventually around 10:30 we did the Stand-Up Meeting. To tell you the truth I was afraid people will start laughing when I tell them to stand up and gather in the middle of the room. They surprised me again and did take it quite seriously.
I asked everyone to say in a few words what are his plans for this day, which tasks will he fight with today, and whether or not he the would like someone's help on the way. Everybody contributed, and we were done in 5-7 minutes. Then we started normal work or rather got back to it, as most of the team was there from 9 AM.
It has to be noted that we do not use regular pair programming. I know, I know, bad boys. The team does however talk everything through with each other over the desk, so it isn't that bad. From time to time they do get together to do something really serious, or when someone doesn't know something, but that's quite normal behaviour. Maybe in the future if I gain more courage I will come forward with that, but for now I leave it be. Fist I have to observe and see to it that other fragile project mechanisms work properly.
Yell at me, please. ;) (I'm open for discussion, I have some twisted rationale behind that, some of my own, some overheard from the team)
Anyway, the day was a good one, I jumped from person to person helping out mainly in writing unit tests. The architecture is not as loosely coupled as one might like, so there are some quirks to go with. That said I have to admit that it not bad at all. There is just room for improvement. As always :). We have to cope with that for the time being, when the time comes I hope to refactor it to something more pleasant.
In the meantime of that I got back to organizing the build system, trying to tweak Maven2 to do the things that are needed. Damn, there is a lot of documentation out there, but it barely scratches the surface. Doing some really custom while using as much of Maven's default functionality as possible is not so pleasant as the adds may say. Anyway by the time I had the things figured out and thought through it was 5PM and it was time to go home ;).
Tomorrow and the day after I have to be at another project site, so I assigned my colleague to be the guardian of the morning Stand-Ups, and other behaviour and practices. I hope they'll live, oh I'm sure they'll do just fine.
So until Friday!, maybe I'll think of something earlier and come back here, if not then Friday for sure I'll report the next portion of this rescue attempt.
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