"It's a Pedophile Dating Site!" - Quote of the day from Errol
Who would have thought training would be...well REAL project work? This week, the other business analysts and I have been gathering project requirements (inception) for ThoughtWorks Chronicles, an internal application that will be used to pass on and archive the oral history of ThoughWorks. Which I think is a fantastic idea. How better than to preserve a great community culture? I say community and not company, because it honestly feels more like a community of coworkers (I haven't grown tired of seeing them yet! Even though I see them almost 24/7).
Inception is a bit difficult to explain without going into a bunch of BA (Business Analyst) jargon which will most likely sound like blahbatyblahblahblah to a lot of people. Long story short, the BA finds out what functionalities the client wants to build in the application and conveys this to a team of developers. It may sound easy conceptually, but in reality it feels a bit more like this...
Today we finished our estimations for our project scope and tomorrow we will be writing detailed user stories around each piece of functionality. Monday we will start the first iteration of development!
Also, recap - Tuesday night we had a pub quiz where we broke off into teams and got to answer a quiz about really random questions about things from different countries, questions related to ThoughtWorks, and things we've learned in class. Our team came in second! I'd like to think it's because the first place team had Patti Mandarino, one of the first few ThoughtWorkers ever, and she knew all the ThoughtWorks history :D. I was just proud that I could answer one of the sports questions - who won the Stanley Cup this year. Ha!
Well there's been a WHOLE lot more that's happened and I don't have time to write about. I will try to catch up next time! =)
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