day -29: it’s taking shape
daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
It’s been an amazing week. Very intense & awesome fun. For the first time in a very long while (nearly a year) things start to shape really well. From having the developers scattered around the world, to having no developers we’re now sitting everyone together in the same room, working vertically & tight. Vertical in this case means taking a User Story, a scenario basically that shall work across the system, back-end & iPhone App together.
We’ve started to work with sprints (scrum lingo), and this weeks sprint was split in two scenarios: meet & keep in touch & log in with Facebook Connect. Check on both! We’ve had a Facebook Login all the time but it was never built for production and at best a really good joke. Now there’s actual authentication through Facebook, which is a very liberating feeling.
The Scenario meet & keep in touch is pretty much the equivalent of exchanging business cards, like people did in the old way. It’s about quick and easy connect to each other, an everyday scenario when you meet new people. Now, instead of dealing with paper, it’s a one-click-operation. You might say but “what about bump”, and indeed it’s just that action (without the goofy move) but the exchange is not of static information but to information that’s always up-to-date.
mockup view.
We hope this will make life a little easier in all the scenarios when you meet new great people that you want to stay in touch with, without the hassle of manually typing in, and keeping track of peoples contact info.
You have no idea how great it feels that things are moving again. It’s been a bumpy ride but we’re on it, and we’ve gone from nearly not moving, to be moving fast, thanks to the great dev team from jayway.