Backlog refinement meeting with Cory and Alan. Alan was reporting on the current sprint and some take aways (lessons learned or observed) that he is getting from working with the other developers. As a side note, the good connections and progress seems to be tied to, he and the other developers, are somewhat having their own mini standup meetings between themselves. This extra communication really seems to be helping, when it happens. If not, progress seems to be slowed (lack of communication and direction).

One of our challenges is figuring out bottlenecks and who is going to do what. We talked about unit testing and virtually drawing lines for when we need it (unit testing) and when we don't. Not all projects are the same level or same importance. It really does depend on the page and the functions per page. We have to evaluate the need and then decide how deep we want and need to go, per page or per function.

We spent some time talking about error handling and plans for that. We have a current plan in place, however, some of the developers are proposing changes, updates, and being able to catch and log errors higher up on the page or at an application type level. After that, there was some talks on continuing education and getting some training on new techniques and what not.

Cory and I were showing Alan some of the next user stories for the next sprint and getting his feedback. Alan recommended that we refactor some existing code and reuse things where possible. We got into talking about the enterprise part category project and even having two different sprint teams going at the same time. Alan and I would take care of the recipe/build stuff (production and manufacturing) and we would have Eric and Wayne lead out the enterprise stuff for part categories. Alan and I also had some discussions on how we would like to deal with part category images (part of the bigger enterprise part category project). We talked about adding in a new field that would have a full path to the category photos, so that we could share photos between corporations as needed. The current system only allows for each corporation to have their own photos. The enterprise system would allow for sharing a single category photo as needed. That saves storage space and allows for things to be more standardized and/or data normalization stuff.

While Alan and I work on the one sprint, we would have the other guys work on the models, unit testing, and wire-up jobs for the other sprint. We booked some time to work on the side sprint between Alan and I. That is a huge part of the puzzle. If I don't book the time, it will just get claimed (other developers needing help or other meetings) and it doesn't happen. Anyways, good stuff and a good meeting. Nice breakthroughs.