Meeting Info

Topic:  Set Up to Deliver Product

Date: Tuesday, October 9 2007 -- 7pm to 9pm

Where: Indian Trails Library, 355 Schoenbeck Rd, Wheeling IL (map)

Before the meeting: Be sure to review/print the group's backlog of high-level stories and bring it with you.

Agenda:

We'll turn some select high-level stories into sharp, biteable work we can deliver on in the near future.

• select a few of our previously-generated list of high-level goals
• uncover sharp, deliverable stories / tasks on the selected goals and tasks to accomplish them
• sign up to work on the tasks
• agree on a "sprint end date"
• persist the tasks / deliverable stories to the wiki, and commit to delivering them!

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Meeting Notes

(to be recorded during/after the meeting)

Attending:

• Lukass Franklin
• Nate Kirby
• Scott Barnes
• Derek Wade
• Doug Shimp

Notes/Comments:

Nates Notes:

We started as a Derek asked about where we desired to go.  I had an agenda, and so spoke up (it also almost impossible to shut me up :) and mentioned about Story Runner which comes with RSpec.  Upon attending a Chirb last week at the October Chirb I had started playing with it and had a little demo to show. 

Derek had to leave early to catch a flight to ... somewhere ... but we tried to carry on in his absence.  So I showed the little work I had done with RSpec's Story Runner (what it does is tie what looks like plain test that the user can read  together with behavior specifications) and then asked  how this might be useful.  We had a very lively discussion.  Many things came up, the idea that Fortune 1000 companies might have the most potential for agile methods, or possibly that startups are fertile ground.  We talked about how to use the Story Runner and someone suggested that it would be good to tie the unit tests in with the story runner.  Some useful links I just found are at and at.  I plan to use this to gather req so we can estimate projects better.

All in all it was a very good meeting.  I for one am very glad I went.