SmartSoft 2010

Around the S: Amr Hany, Ahmed Khaled, Mina Zaki, Mahmoud Sharawi, Joseph ElHajj, Hossam Sharaf, Mohamed Monayri, Moataz Mekki, Omar Nabil, Hossam Amer, Amr Osman, Moumen Mohamed, Galal Aly, Ahmed Behairy, Saher Neklawy (Scrum Master), Amr Abdelwahab, Mahmoud Sakr, Menna Ghoneim, Dina Helal, Heba ElSherif, Hadeer Diwan, Hadeer Younis, Dr Fatma Meawad (CEO), Asmaa Elkomy, and Ghada Fakhry.

Technical Facts

• Framework: Play-1.0 (http://playframework.org)
• Version control: SVN
• Total number of complete sprints to date: 4

Weird Facts

• We lost sprint 1 to coolsoft.
• Food was the best motive!
• Database crackdown a couple of days before sprint 2 deadline
• Some of us spent the night at the university (some went home at 6, others pulled an alnighter ON CAMPUS) to fix the database.
• CX – Company actually made up a cross-team component refered to as CX. We later came to realize everyone took part in CX.
• The system had a different interface EVERY sprint!
• There were more than 170 commits during the last hour of sprint 2!
• We had over 70 ERD issues and over 45 different ERD versions!
• During sprint 4 70% of the code was deleted and rewritten/refactored!
• Google wave was announced ‘dead’ by Google right after we adopted it during Sprint 4.
• Reviewers were competing to re-open others’ issues even though we’re the same company.
• No one could discuss anything with the lead designer except the company manager .. politely!
• Some watched cartoons in meetings, others played fifa during sprint 1 evalutaion. And well, some played cards.
• We tried 3 communication protocols: forums, mailing lists, waves.
• Most depressing mail ever: subject “Hane3mel eh”, body: “Law 5eserna hane3mel eh fel lecture hall :X”
• Most adequate response to the previous thread: “w law kesebna hane3mel eh :X”
• We had a “model” called Galal Aly *wink*
• Some online meetings lasted for 5 hours.
• The C1 UML was so dense that it was unreadable even when displayed via the projector on the wall at high res!
• C3 UMLs were the best due to the fact that UML issues were to be re-opened 5 times per day .. at least! – Nominated as best reviewer
• Smarterscrum alpha was up & running / hosted on TjWallas’s Birthday =D !
• Even though smartsoft and coolsoft were competing, they were actually helping each other and exchanging tools and info.
• Coolsoft and Smartsoft held sessions for each other to clarify the Play framework.

Famous Quotes

• Enta akbar men keda b keteer
• Follll
• El-MESH accordion
• ma3ak Galal Aly
• Awesome!
• “My mind hibernates after 10:00PM. no, srsly =D !”
• i <3 Coolsoft
• 2ader w te3melha
• yay! (xD)
• bt7ot nafsak fi mawakef bay5aaaaa
• Person 1: Aslann? Person 2: Men asaso!
• Makhsoom menak nos youm!
• Oqsemmmm?!
• El-Akl Hayebradd!
• Agmad C2 fel donya koolllahhhaa!