This was officially the last sprint for this semester! It flew by a lot quicker than I thought it would. Even though each sprint was approximately two weeks long, it certainly did not feel like it. It felt especially short because it would take our group about two sprints for each issue so the time seemed very short and at times, we wished the sprint was longer because we wanted to be able to finish an issue within one sprint. Overall, we were only able to resolve one issue. For this entire sprint, we spent a lot of time choosing issues to work on. We would choose one issue that looks promising, contact a member of the AMPATH team for clarification or for assistance on how to fix the issue, and a team member would contact us back and tell us that the bug or feature has already been resolved in another issue. This happened to us 4 times! After the second time, it began to get annoying because we were wasting so much time on issues that were already solved!

If there was anything I learned from this sprint it would be how important it is to properly manage and maintain the issue tracker. AMPATH and companies in general can save a lot of time and headache with better issue management. If each issue was thoroughly examined, there wouldn’t be any unnecessary issues that are asking for fixes to something that another issue is already addressing. There shouldn’t be two issues that are asking for the same fixes; that’s counter-productive!

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