We started work on our first Meta-Project, an app inspired by Pivotal Tracker that we can use on all our future projects. We call it The Level.
Programming as a nine-person team was kind of like being on the floor of a very small very strange stock exchange - there were triumphs; there was frustration (like when I deleted the stylesheet - I didn't mean to , I swear), and lots of energy, and yelling, and cookies, and a project that went from nothing to something in an hour and a half.
Lessons learned:
- Cloud Nine - though really great, must be used in a particular way.
- Cloud Nine doesn't always sync multiple simultaneous users well
- It's easy to mistakenly overwrite another person's work
- It's better to split the big team into pairs that share a computer and work on one document together
- Nine is probably close to the limit of how many people can work on one project at the same time
- More seating!
The energy of nine people all working together on a project is solid raw grass-fed free range magic.
I can't wait for next time.
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