This week marked the beginning of implementing real code for our project. Each of my teammates created an early version of their functional area. We all created slides for the v0.0.2 presentation where our scrub master would show off all the developments. Turns out I was the scrub master.
I enjoy organizing projects, and was ready to tackle this, our second presentation. The scrub master has more work than the other team members, they have to actually put the presentation together and record and submit a video of their presentation. I was our team’s second scrum master, and I am a little glad I wasn’t the first. All and all it ended well, but I did run into some issues.
Development on an existing code base is a great and exciting opportunity. However, problems may arise. I found out that even though I could run the code locally I wasn’t able to access all of the features/pages of the AgBiz Logic website. This was quite problematic as one such page is where our whole project takes place. I have not quite fixed the error and so cannot load half the pages on the site locally. I decided to develop my functional area externally then port it over later as we are still early in development.
I included my problems loading pages locally in the presentation. After creating my external implementation all that was left was the slides/recording. Editing the slides took awhile but I am happy with the result. Recording was a different story.
I was running out of time to record the video, however I had an issue which was impairing my speech. I had a canker sore which was lasting over a week. For whatever reason I get canker sores more than the average person, and they can get pretty painful if they last a long time. I was not looking forward to recording the presentation.
I still wanted to go through with the recording even though it was painful at times. I was appointed by the team to handle the presentation and I didn’t want to offload that on to someone else last minute. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. The video is definitely longer and it took more takes to record than it normally would, but I came out the other end completely fine. I guess it goes to show that growing pains are there to be “grown past.”