Well I started on a new project this week. Big client. Potentially huge for the West Region, so I am stoked. Being on the bench for 2 months, though it allowed me to train and get certified, is a bit much for me. I go absolutely stir crazy at home, so you can imagine how jazzed I am.
ANYWAY... On this project we are using SCRUM, one of the Agile methodologies. I should say that we are using OUR version of SCRUM. We took the tools and techniques of pure SCRUM and have adapted them to our project. The really cool part? The client requested it as they are also ramping up SCRUM development internally. So we are working with them to determine what works best.
The planning for Sprint 0 (S0) is complete, and we began working the tasks on Thursday of this week. S0 is all about environment setup and domain knowledge transfer, so light on development, but heavy on learning and infrastructure.
Stay tuned to this blog for my observations on the methodology. It's not a normal Avanade practice, so it should be interesting. It IS, however, catching on.
The other really neat thing about this project is our use of Ontologies to enable very rich search and metadata within the application. these two items are at the top of the list of features that are needed by the customer, and to date, I have not ever used ontology. I've taken it on for S0 to learn what it is we are using, including the tools and techniques required to make it work well.
So again, stay tuned to this blog for more information about what we are doing, how we are doing it, and what the results are.
Happy to be productive once again... 
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