Phoenix First Two XP Sprints

Phoenix has finished its Sprint 5 and 6, which are the first two XP Sprints.
An XP team always goes through four stages, “forming, storming, norming, performing”. The first Sprint felt like a storming stage, where we are trying to figure out the best way to get the code in without spending too much time on [...]

Checking in on Process Changes

As I blogged about a while back, for this release cycle of the PolicyCenter product we’ve made a number of changes to our development process to try make things work more smoothly and predictably.  We re-organized the team into cross-functional sub-teams (which we call “pods”), moved from four-week sprints to two-week sprints, started scheduling and [...]