Long day

So today I had a meeting with our business contact. He talked about forming an S corporation rather than an LLC. With that kind of set up, we would be taxed like a business partnership, but if anything happened the company would be liable for problems rather than us programmers. Also, we could set up hedge funds and authorized shares for our company.

We also discussed funding that is available to us, so that we programmers could get paid and receive funding for our needs over the summer -- housing, travel, phones, food, family expenses, and bonus incentives among the categories we would get funding for.

We also discussed other projects "in the works" that I am not privileged to share.

We also had our second pre-sprint meeting, which was good.

We are modifying our format, which makes us not entirely scrum-tastic. For instance, we are sprinting in 1-week intervals. That is more eXtreme Programming-like. However, unlike XP, we are not changing our sprint todo list until the next sprint, and we also don't necessarily tackle highest priority items on the product backlog.

This article is pretty insightful on the contrast between scrum and XP. They make some good points. I definitely think that the scrum was a good way to go for our team. We are making progress and learning how to be more efficient as we go.

I also like this. It says that the best project for agile methodologies are ones where there is urgency in the work, and the tasks are new and complex for the team. I think our project exactly fits that description.

The highlights of scrum include having self-organizing teams, and a strong focus on the product that the user sees.