Week 3: Overdrive
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- It’s UML presentation day
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- The look up acceptance and UML satisfaction.
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- Our White Elephant gifts!
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- That’s a picture of a man who just stole someone’s gift.
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- A successful White Elephant I’d say!
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- That’s Angry Birds candy man!
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- Eric gets to licking his surprise.
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- 171 surprise guest speakers telling us the important of networking
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- Snacks. Check!
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- Pizza. Check!
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- Code-A-Thon! On!
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- Doing swag.
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- When a team member needs help you can count on Microventures to team up and get the job done.
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- AM I THE ONLY ONE EXCITED TO SEE STARCRAFT ON THE BIG SCREEN. BARCRAFT ANYONE?!?!
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- Dan eventually falls asleep after running from station to station to help everyone with TortoiseHg
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- 7AM. I shortly joined them and even shared a footsie moment with Mark.
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- Obviously not the ideal Scrum board being only a week away from Sprint’s end.
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- Special guest John from Syz E.G. He told us all that was up with Marmalade. Thanks bro!
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- A long drive awaited me after our Code-A-Thon. Unfortunately, I didn’t even make it to the 17 before this happened…
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- …and here’s his car. Just lost his bender. Ridiculous.
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- Towed all the way back home in San Jose
A pretty eventful third week for Microventures production.
Once again we started the week with Jamestown which got moved to Monday so now it’s Jamestown Monday. And then there’s also Baballe Wednesday where we get some cuban sandwiches downstairs.
This week it was time for the team to present to Jim the UML we had created. Luckily for us by the end of it we were awarded the most unique UML thanks to our 3 prong attack on the code: Story, Level, Game.
Mid week was our long awaited Microventure’s White Elephant. Everyone brought in their 10 dollar gift. I ended up getting some liquor to make Martinis. Yay!
The highlight of the week was the Thursday/Friday Code-A-Thon. We loaded up on energy drinks and food to last us through the night. Definitely interesting to see how sleep deprevation affected everyone. Overall, no one made it through the night and no one seemed to be effective in the wee hours. I’m already looking forward to our next coding session, because our already humurous team seems to get only funnier the further along we are in the night.
So I promised playable content by the end of the week, but we only accomplished integration. Engine, game, and level gen got linked up successfully. We decided to put story gen on the backlog since we seemed to be the only one totaling 200+ hours on Sprint 1. Seemed like every other group didn’t even plan it to 100 hours. Coding night was a big accomplishment for the team, but it didn’t quite show on the SCRUM board. Future breakdown of our tasks will really help out.
Next week is our last week for the sprint. We’re definitely expecting some playable content so stay tuned!
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