Milen and I had our third day at Field2Base today. As per usual, we began our day by attending the development team’s daily stand-up meeting. Then, we listened in on a ‘grooming’ meeting the development team had. In this meeting they went over various stories that were to be worked on in the coming weeks and revised their plans as well as decided how much time and energy they were willing to devote to that feature or fix. Then, we talked to Mike, the iOS developer for Field2Base’s Mobile Forms application. Mike talked to us about how development for the iOS platform works and the tools and programs he uses to code for iPhones and iPads. He told us about how he got the position he is now and why he thinks the software industry is flourishing as much as it has been. Then we had lunch. There was a food truck in the parking lot serving employees of the various companies in the building, so we ate food from there. After lunch, Mary, a member of the professional services team, talked to us about what she does at Field2Base. She showed us how if companies would rather have the mobile forms designed for them instead of designing them themselves, they can pay her hourly to create those forms. Rachel then had us practice some scripting examples of what this work would consist of and after some brief Q&A we were once again done for the day.
