Software Engineering Collaboration 7

 The past two weeks have been exciting. We are getting to actual get into the code and really start working on our end goals. We finally have everything set up and running so our sprints are becoming "fun." It will be exciting to be able to see changes on the program in the near future.

Last week we figured out that our backlog stories were too broad. We had to evaluate each of them and think about how we could break them down into smaller sprints that could be completed in one week. Our team is also naturally dividing into smaller teams/pairs as they realize their strengths or areas of interest. Allen and Tyler have jumped head first into the CSS changes. Kevin, since he works in IT, is doing research on how to implement LDAP with our program. Jacob and Hannah have already made big strides on working directly with the code for entering default hours into the program.

One issue brought up in class that our team needs to work on is writing stories instead of just listing tasks in our backlog. If I'm understanding them correctly this means writing the tasks in end user language. As a < type of user >, I want < some goal > so that < some reason >.