Facebook Delivers a Painful End to the MFS Sprint 1

Jeffery Read — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:02:50 +0000

The MyFrontSteps team at VendAsta is wrapping up our first sprint right now. The final three days are devoted to testing and bug-fixing our Facebook application, Homebook. As the Scrum Master for the team, this means that I get to triage the bugs as they come in, schedule the meetings required to close out the sprint and schedule the planning meetings for the next sprint. This is all in addition to working on fixing my own share of the bugs. While this might sound like a lot to have going on at once, and I’ll admit it has been a hectic couple of days, I am really not finding it all that bad. Compared to what I had been dealing with prior to VendAsta, namely fighting tooth and nail to get anyone to test anything so it could be released, this is a dream. A certain amount of stress and craziness is completely easy to handle when it is accompanied by actual productivity and real results.

This morning, however, was nearly intolerable for the whole team. Here we are struggling to get our application tested thoroughly and polished up for the end of sprint when Facebook starts pulling all kinds of crazy shit on us. Random logouts. Messages about account maintenance. Warnings about trying to set FBML for inactive accounts. We ended up with a decent number of new bugs filed that weren’t bugs at all. It was just Facebook having a seizure! Of course, once we figured out that there were some issues on the Facebook side of things we relaxed a bit. Still, it made for a rather exhausting day!

Owing to this exhaustion, Episode 3 of Roger’s Wars will not be hitting the ether this evening. It’ll be here soon enough, though!

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Facebook Delivers a Painful End to the MFS Sprint 1