Every Wednesday we have a company meeting and our awesome dev team walks us through a Demo of everything they worked on during the prior week’s sprint. At BigDoor we iterate on our platform weekly – we listen to and value feedback from our partners and incorporate as much as we can each week to make our product that much better through each weekly iteration. Yesterday’s demo revealed a “surprise” which one of our great devs Brian Immel details below. We took the liberty of posting this in its entirety but feel free to check out Brian’s blog – its chock full of goodness!
“New Features…..You Didn’t Even Know About”
Yesterday’s demo was exciting.
At BigDoor, the developers (myself included) Demo to the entire company everything we worked on during last week’s sprint. Honestly it’s one of my favorite parts of the job. We move so fast that the demo has become a greatest hits list of killer features that makes our platform so great. With so many awesome things coming down the pipe weekly, we set the bar pretty high. So to demo something truly impressive it’s got to break the mold of normal awesome and become uber-awesome.
During yesterday’s Demo, our fellow developer, Harley Holt gave us that opportunity.
Our weekly sprints are jammed packed with “stories” we’re working on. Usually this means new features, performance gains and bug fixes that are in line with our company roadmap.
However, Harley went above and beyond the call of duty. Somewhere between his daily work hours and getting a nasty ankle sprain playing kickball, he built something truly uber awesome. I can’t tell you what right now (awwww, you tease), but I will say it got me all giddy and giggly with excitement.
As a result, today’s demo was exceptional. At the end of our normal routine, Harley showed off the thing he’s been working on for the last few weeks outside of our normal sprints. No one asked him to do it. It was just a damn good idea so he led himself.
So kudos to the man. In my mind it was worth the ankle sprain, since we’ll see ripples from Harley’s work for months to come.
And that was all before 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Wonder what we’ll do tomorrow?