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.
meet > keep in touch
based on a true story
In the old world, when people went to a conference they brought a pack of business cards. Everyone did. Why? It’s obvious right, they wanted to stay in touch after the event was over.
Prior to the event everyone had to have those business cards printed – in worst case, hideous designs just to get it done, cause what happens if you met somebody you wanted to keep in touch with but you had no card? No business!
During the conference, the same people had to carry two bunches of business cards. In one pocket their own cards, and in another pocket the received ones. Some people even divided the received ones in two pockets. Left pocket for cards to save, right pocket to throw. Or the other way around.
After the conference they all went back to their offices, with those newly conquered business cards. Some of them sat down to order them, others just built stacks – depending on personality. In recent years some people even bothered to digitalize those business cards to have available in their Outlook, conveniently.
Time changes, they say.
In an ambadoo world, you just go to your conference, unconference or whatever you’d like, bring your mobile, with ambadoo installed. You start talking to someone interesting and decide that you’d want to keep in touch.
On the fly, over-the-air you share your ambadoo profiles with each other, and you’re connected, with all relevant contact details and all it took was a click.
You’d expect more steps? Sorry to disappoint you.
This is the first of a few user stories we’re working on at the moment, and will be demoed tomorrow afternoon. Stay tuned.