Last week we locked ourselves in a windowless hotel conference room - thrashing out a product idea with some of the most animated, energised people you'll ever meet: quote - here we'll have boom, bang, fists, stars and wham, my friends are like wooww dude, then smash the whales are feeding.
Oh man... there's soo much I can't tell you as we are in stealth mode, though all bribes gratefully received, I take cash and equity!
Cowboy's Rodeo Roundup
Out: Requirements docs / Sprint planning
In: Kanban
Out: The daily hour 'standup' conference calls
In: standups
Out (on a short vacation): Jira
In: PostIt notes
Out: Telephones and headsets
In: err, nothing
Out: Sweet trolley
In: Beer trolley
Out: Milk fridge
In: Beer Fridge - erm, there's no pattern here!
Cool Tech Tools: Confluence + gliffy
Cool Tech Frameworks: Dropwizard... shock - a framework that actually makes life easier
Quote of the week: "Don't poke the bear!"
Next post I'll feed you angry badgers with some of our unscientific tech biases, plain opinioniated but mostly ranting thoughts (some of you are probably missing my rants - right?) on our experiences with Scala, SBT (why I oughta!!!), Akka, Finagle and message bus technologies.
Recommended Reads
Steve Blank - Four Steps to Epiphany
