Many rivers to cross…

Approaching, well maybe not the homestretch, but probably the “home bend” at least, of this course, I’m going to try to reflect a little bit at were we as students are at this point…
I do hate the term “journey”. Probably one of the most over-used and boring terms of this “self-fulfilment”-age we’re living in, but for this instance I guess it will have to be the suitable way of explaining were we’re at and where we’re heading…
First of all; the one thing that’s really standing out above all the rest of the things I’ve learned through this course, is the Agile approach. It is the very reason I’m writing this.
As long I can remember I’ve personally always been pulled between either being super-organized and boring or not have any organization at all and being really creative. “Milder signs of dissociative identity disorder” would probably be the psycho-analytic way of describing it…
Reflecting back on the projects we have had during the Bootcamp, we quite fast realise that one of our main problem as a team has been that we start of really Agile and stick to the methodology and we do produce and deliver…
The interesting thing is that we during the Sprint somehow start focusing on only coding and produce… And we end up producing less code.
We lost track of what we’re suppose to achieve and keep track of where were heading, eventually ending up just feeling like we’re wandering around being lost.
Well it just goes to show, things are not what they seem…
The Agile methodology is beautiful in the way that you’re not just producing to produce, but produce to evolve and subsequently; evolve to produce more.
Even though we’ve been going deep into the whole Spring and Scrum-process, in the end it should all just come down to… Planning — Tracking — Review.
For me as a individual it feels a bit like I’ve find one of the missing pieces in the Agile approach. The very precise and exact planning sure helps a lot, but more than anything, it is the reflection-part of the Agile approach that already have, and will make me achieve results more effectively but at the same time keep on evolving.
For us as a team the most important thing going in to the Final Project-weeks will not relly be the planning or the review, but for sure the tracking of the process. Don’t just keep on wandering. Stop, look around and see where were at and where were heading.
