Let's celebrate!
So... we've got the first functionality inside ManageIQ. On time for the next version of the tool... and it has costed us some blood, I have to say.
Let's cellebrate :D This week is Red Hat Week, and we are proud to reach a milestone in our little project.
https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/pull/4887
It has taken 11 days to merge it.... And we have learnt a lot while we worked on it.
First:
You need to visually know what you intend to do... We had a revision web conference and discovered that we had agreed to deliver something... that was not what we wanted.
Solution: mockups of the final solution. Now we are doing it first, with the rspec: Tests and mockups to know what we want exactly the tool to do.
It is such a stupid thing trying to use TDD and fail on doing this properly.
Consequence: some functionality won't be included in ManageIQ until we refactor it because we have learnt a lot - meaning: we have done it wrong.
Second:
We need to focus more in the basis, iteratively. Git, patternfly, ruby, rails, we can't take them for granted, we need to improve how we do things. We make mistakes, we don't understand why tools are used for... and one month later you know why that functionality was there...
Third:
Sometimes the business part of things is hard. Even being myself the product owner, I don't get specifications detailed enough to make everything understandable, and thus it is good we are using Scrum... Imaging if we discovered that the functionality was wrong after 3 months instead of 3 weeks.... We wouldn't be talking about learning, but other things.
