Hello!
It’s that time of the month again, we’ve just finished up sprint number 2, and now I’ve got to write about how it went!
I think this sprint was considerably more productive than the last one (even if I still couldn’t get my assigned issue done). I managed to parse out how I am going to make timestamps for the rabbitMQ messages, and I did a significant amount of testing with some files, to the point where I basically had everything working by the end of sprint 2. It would have been implemented were it not for the fact that I ran into some last minute errors that I couldn’t get fixed in time. Like the last post I made, the merge request will be available at the bottom of the post.
I think I did a much better job at communicating with my group this time around. I think I was a little shy before, plus overwhelmed at having to learn a new skill and be a productive member of a group. Now though, I’ve been pretty consistently talking to my group about what I’m working on, and I’ve been asking questions on things that trip me up, which I would consider a wild improvement over last time.
In terms of things that didn’t go so well, I could do with some better time management skills. If I had planned out my work a bit better, I probably would have had ample time to fix the errors I was getting, and I might even have been able to implement everything I had been working on. I’m not going to fret about that though, I just have to keep that in mind and make sure I give this sprint all the time it needs from me to get everything done.
As with myself, our group has been doing a lot more communicating lately. Most of it has been really good, but a good chunk of it has not been very on topic. I’m not about to be some kind of narc that wants every minute of every day be spent working, that sounds utterly miserable, but I would like more of our discussions being related to what we are working on.
After looking in the book, I think the apprenticeship pattern that relates the most to this sprint was “Expose Your Ignorance”. The pattern states that the best way to fill gaps in my knowledge is to reveal them to my group, so that I might be more encouraged to find what I am missing. I’ve been the one working on rabbitMQ for two sprints now, and as such, I think it is easy to assume that I know every aspect of what it going on, but the longer I work on this project, the more small problems seem to come out of the woodwork. Oh sure, we have the code needed to send messages, but there is no queue for them to go into, so what is the point, etc. So, had I read this pattern at the start of the sprint, I think it would have been more productive to know what kind of stuff I was missing, so I can avoid any unexpected problems. I would have laid out the plan for the sprint, done some research on everything I was doing if I wasn’t 100% solid on it, and had some better fundamental knowledge going into that sprint than what I had.
As usual, I will try to keep the things I learned in mind, but I will continue working on my issue, knowing that I do not have all the knowledge I need, and being willing to ask for help in finding it.
Merge request: https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/inventorysystem-weight-based/inventorybackend/-/merge_requests/65
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