Today, we attended the daily development team stand-up meeting again, as we did yesterday and will each day of the coming weeks. After the stand-up, which is used to check in on progress and set-backs, a more long-form sit-down development meeting took place that Milen and I also attended in order to get a better feel for how the development team works through creating new features and fixing existing bugs in a timely manner. Rachel then showed us the various websites and programs that the development team use to track their progress through the current “sprint” (a two-week period of planned development), through individual issues and features called “stories” which make up groups called “epics.” Another website Rachel showed us was used for tracking customer reports of bugs as well as suggestions for potential new features. All this planning is necessary to keep the team on task and on schedule with their fixes and new content in order to keep customer’s forms all working correctly and keep customers interested in staying in business with Field2Base. Milen and I then learned how to use Field2Base’s DIM (Data Integration Module) software, which is used for companies to import their form data into the various departments that would use that data, such as sending financial information to an accounting department or names into a database. After lunch, we talked to the product manager Brendan about the suite of products offered and how customers use them to optimize their systems. Brendan also talked to us about he company’s website and all its offerings.
