It’s about to get crazy at The Iron Yard.
We have a week and a half of lecture and practice until we begin final projects. Honestly, I have no idea what I’m going to do. I know that I would love to build a site combining the strengths of Rails backend with Angular JS’s front end. I suck at ideas though. If I have an idea of what to build, the general idea, then I can run with it and do something fun. Getting that initial idea is hard as hell for me. I plan on asking various people to get their advise for what kind of project would be memorable and useable. From October 3-5 The Iron Yard is doing an internal hackathon (Combination of the Front End, IOS, and Rails classes) and I hope that I get an idea from there that I can run with for my final project. I would love to work with other classes and form a Scrum centric idea process and work flow to knock down a project.

The last couple of weeks have been group projects for us. Last week I was the project leader of our group and it was very different experience for me. I didn’t do pure scrum with the group. I didn’t get client input, or make a board. I kind of winged the inputs in my head to develop a MVP. This week the leader of our group was a former project manager, Robert Groller, and knows how to use scrum. Actual scrum implementation is much different than “winging it”. I like the workflow process much better with full scrum. The timeboxing, workflow, and everything. I want this process in my final project. My intention is to have James, my teacher, act as the client and give me feedback on what he thinks a user experience should find important in whatever I do.

Now I just need to figure out what I’m going to do. I’m sure I’ll figure it out soon.