Hello everyone,
As mentioned in the previous post, the project has been started and we’ve reached the “fourth episode”. This time, Alessandro and I were able to talk with students in order to get which kind of project they are going to complete and show during the final exam.
Like every other project, problems are behind the corner. Indeed, the students didn’t create any task under the related Product Backlog Items. This is what they should have done. The issues were principally:
- some teams still not had figured any idea to implement
- some other weren’t able to use Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) in the right way (or few of them simply didn’t wanted to 🙂 )
That’s it, so our last meeting was focused on explaining the advantages of agile methodologies instead of the classic waterfall approach, showing them how to use VSTS correctly in order to clarify any doubt about its use. We started to speak about methodologies because they used to waterfall their project, and this means that they were gathering ideas, instead of thinking in an iterative way.
Although this fact, we could see the first results from the majority of the students which let us being confident about the future of their projects.
As result of this talk, the students seemed to have got why choose a methodology instead of another, being able to manage their work with the right tools. At the end of this day, we’ve assigned them just a simple homework: create the tasks which reflects their development steps, moving PBIs through different status during their work.
That was all for this episode. Stay tuned for any news about the course of the project.
See you to the next post!
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