I’m done… now what?

5 Oct 2006

You just finished a sprint. Whether it be a single feature, a set of features, or even a release. You were test-driven, user-accepted, and agile, and now you have no juice left. You don’t have the brainpower to start working on the next thing on your task list, but you probably can’t just decide to go home at 2 pm, either. :) So what do you do?

Document what you just did! Assuming, of course, that you weren’t documenting along the way, put everything you know about what you just did in some sort of documentation — whether it’s in a wiki (hi Trac!) or some other documentation repository. Write about it while you can still remember it, and you’ll thank yourself later.

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3 responses to “I’m done… now what?”

Efficiency is its own Reward (11:43:59) :

Why shouldn’t you go home at 2:00pm?

Time != Money

VALUE = Money

Time by itself is not inherently valuable. It’s what you do with it that makes it valuable or NOT.

If you’ve crammed an immense amount of value in a relatively short amount of time, you’ve done your work.

Or are you your own slave driver?

Efficiency is its own Reward (11:45:45) :

That’s not to say that I disagree with documenting your work. I agree that that’s a good thing. I was just kinda nitpicking the conclusion of the first paragraph.

Ben (20:44:06) :

Sometimes I am my own slave driver. :) I suppose I should have rephrased the comment about going home at 2. What I meant was that there are some things, like documentation, that you can do with less than 100% brain capacity that would make a good use of time that might otherwise go to waste. Of course, if it’s 2 o’clock and you’re completely fried, you may be better off just calling it a day. :)