Sprint 4, which covered pricelists, was finally signed off yesterday. I'm glad to see the back of it to be honest. It's been a bit of a pain. Sprint 4 was started before I began to publish the burn down graphs, so you can't see just how much of a pain it was, but if I tell you it was almost 10 days late, you get the idea.
Most of that time was taken up with bugs found during testing, we have a project budget for testing, which is around 100% of development time and the testing versus development% for sprint 4 was 208%. Ouch! Because of this the project, as a whole, is running 4.25 days behind, although we should be able to make it up from sprint 6 onwards; so I'm still confident of finishing the project on time.
So, what caused the pain in sprint 4? Well, one of the requirements of the system is that input speeds attained in the current Unix/Cobol system, must be retained in the new .Net 2.0 system. To acheive this, we had to design and code a quick entry panel, to allow expert users to keep their speed, but also create a "search and select" machanism for those new users. This proved to create a few wrinkles that required to be ironed out during sprint testing.
Now that we have done that, we should not see these problems again in sprint 5 (which has order entry) testing. I have uploaded screen shots of the finished sprint 4 GUI, you can see them
here, into the bakery control GUI set on flickr. Feel free to take a look if you are interested.
Tags:
Bakery control system,
.net 2.0,
C#