Another day, another stand-up? Not today, brother! Today is our second sprint planning. We are well armed with a plan to improve our codebase and do much more than the last sprint. With this positive mindset we started the morning rewriting our code so we could use repositories.
And then we got some more great news, our PO had written up a lot of new stories, that we could include in the sprint and didn't even have to give input on. This saved a lot of time and we could plan this weeks sprint in just over 2 hours. And we also kept our Sprint retro suggestions on hand so we would have more unrelated stories and gave our estimates with a bit of room to do refactoring.
With our stories selected we started writing some sub-stories to explain the story better and as we had unrelated tasks we could do this at the same time! Felt productive and great. Then we introduced the sub-stories to each-other and added some points we could have missed. With that done we could get coding.
As the first order of business half of our team finished up refactoring the existing code while others worked on their stories. This created a bit of a disconnect between trying to complete your bit of the problem as bit part of the system was going through some changes. So in order to not be like our Java team and avoid massive merge conflicts we discussed it so we wouldn't change the main part being refactored and it really worked out. Talk to your peers, people!
The day came to a rather early end, because today we had sauna and board games scheduled. It was funny seeing our teams of 5 looking blankly at the floor for the first 10 minutes, because the mind was intently fixed on the task that was abruptly cancelled by the announcement of arriving pizzas. Early communication was a bit rough, but after we got to playing some saboteur the chat started flowing more freely. Some classic jokes were made as the evening rolled into the night.
