John was giving Steve and I a demo on the discount engine and the new database changes that he and Wayne were working on early this morning. Looking good. John was also pitching the use of diagrams to help with requirements, flow, sequences, and object models. We talked a little bit about MVP - minimal viable product. I like to switch out the ending "P" and do something like minimal viable person, minimal viable plan, etc. It helps me think of what is needed.

Sometimes, we, as a team, tend to wing it. That works great to a certain level. Then you really need to get that extra planning and project management in place. If not, you end up fighting against yourself, in different ways.

As part of our discussion, we were talking about minimal viable plans and how often, they are in one person's head. We talked about getting that MVP plan on to paper or getting it recorded digitally, so that we can preserve it and share it. See this link for more notes on tools that we use.

The last topic of our meeting was John and I talking about small checklists and upcoming projects.