- Industry/prof visits
- Learned a lot (group work)
- Learning the internals of a large system
- Making friends
- Excellent office space
- Learned that software engineering can actually be interesting
- Doing something new (building real code!)
- Martin + Tony worked independently very well
- Had a good OLM deployment plan
- No personality clashes
- Good data model for new ticketing system
- Group lunches
- Speed Scrabble
- Python
- Learning (self-)discipline
- The Google podcast
- Self-administration of machines (fun to do, fun to learn)
- Hardware was good
- Regular status meetings were useful and a good learning experience
- OLM testing
- Talk with Jay Goldman
- Sharing problems on the mailing list
- Jeff Balogh's visit
- We did it!
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- Working solo on UTest
- Dealing with Ant
- Falling behind on collaboration with partner
- No real time plan for the last month (before deployment)
- Hardware problems that were never resolved
- No contact with previous teams
- Python and Eclipse
- Too much time spent in email
- Supervisors were too hands off
- Didn't get deployed on schedule
- Didn't get in the habit of "talking tickets"
- Status meetings didn't turn in to design meetings
- Interface to new ticketing system
- Greg's absence (length and timing)
- The old dashboard code
- Should have had bi-weekly demos
- Initial nervousness (a.k.a. "startup shakes")
- Having meetings at 9:00 AM
- Not enough documentation (but we haven't done any better)
- Supervisors couldn't cover for each other during absences
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