Review: A blog post developed using Agile Methodology: Iteration 1

The review of the first iteration of A blog post developed using Agile Methodology has concluded that although the first iteration had all of the function that was stipulated as a must have, it failed to deliver on the spirit of what the project was trying to achieve. The team has been so busy writing words, and joining sentences together into paragraphs that the actual goal of the whole project, writing a blog post that is both interesting and informative, was lost.

But it is still early days.

Feedback from the user/reader character included making sure that the project team was big enough to represent an entire set of stakeholders which could be affected by this project in later iterations.

To try to build from the mixed success of the first post the next iteration of A blog post developed using Agile Methodology:

The post must have:

• Some sense of direction for the characters, the nice to have journey from the first iteration development was not achieved, this has now become a priority for the project.
• Three clear themes that relate to the main theme of the similarities and difference between writing software and writing language.

It would be nice if the post had

• A joke or two to lighten the mood, and remind everyone that while this is an important intellectual exercise, the sun is still going to come up tomorrow morning.
• A twist at the end, something unexpected happening that will make the user/reader think about what has happened in the blog post and increase the engagement and understanding of the ideas that sit behind this project.

Given those parameters the second iteration is due for release at 20:00 on Thursday May 8 2008.

Any and all input on this project is welcomed using the comment interface below.