PiWeek VII. Done!

PiWeek done!

Goals review

Emacs

• Change from vim to emacs

Grails

• Learn async capabilities in grails 2.4.4
• GPars

Javascript

• Compare with ajax

Seekagift

• Upgrade Seekagift to grails 2.4.4
• Integrate all of this in Seekagift
• Deploy in public

Writing

• Write post about CAS 2014
• Write post about Scrum Day Oviedo
• Investigate about Time Tracking for Taiga
• Answer Epic topic conversation

In terms of progress and task done, wasn’t very well. Only achieve two of the goals.

Problems:

• Retake a 2 years old project was not as good idea as I thought.
• Upgrade to grails 2.4.4 was easy
• Upgrade facebook login plugin was a little bit hard to integrate with the actual project.
• Review all facebook permissions, accounts and api calls. Most of them deprecated.
• Review all amazon credentials and api calls. Hard problems with the API keys valid to connect with Amazon Affiliates.

Retrospective

Stop doing

• Lost a lot of time and effort in an application that I’m not sure I’m going to maintain in the future.
• Retake a very old project that I didn’t pay attention any more.

Less of

• Focus less in ‘Working Software’ and more in ‘Personal Innovation’.

Continue doing

• A PiWeek where I have to do my best.
• Solo projects are not so bad.

More of

• Learn knowledge that I can apply on next monday.
• Create conversations during piweek that help to achieve the goals
• In my Next PiWeek-team project, I will assure that all members share the vision

Start doing

• Pivot much earlier, leaving useless knowledge.
• Prepare before piweek the basic software I need.

Conclusions

I’m very proud of effort, very happy to concentrate in the goals and very happy to feel exhausted.

See you next PiWeek in July 2015!