Posts in 2021
  • Jul 5 — 23, 2021

    Monday, July 26, 2021 in 2021

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    This iteration we made significant progress on PPA. All remaining planned work to support Gale/ECCO import and HathiTrust excerpts were moved to “development complete” status, but unfortunately testing issues related to indexing and …

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  • Jun 7 — 25, 2021

    Tuesday, July 06, 2021 in 2021

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    This past iteration, we split our focus between PPA and CDH web. On PPA, we worked on adding support for importing Gale/ECCO content. For CDH web, we worked on the first charter for CDH web, to articulate the roles and responsibilities and prioritize …

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  • May 24 — Jun 4, 2021

    Monday, June 07, 2021 in 2021

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    Our focus this iteration was on Geniza work as we finished out the second phase of work and created our first production release: we successfully migrated the Princeton Geniza Project metadata from a Google Sheets spreadsheet into the new relational …

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  • May 10 — 21, 2021

    Monday, May 24, 2021 in 2021

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    This iteration we completed 18 development points on Geniza as we work towards a first release and migrating the metadata from the spreadsheet to the new relational database. We also completed a smattering of bugfixes and chores as part of planned …

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  • Summer development schedule, June — August 2021

    Tuesday, May 11, 2021 in Quarter Schedules

    Development schedule for summer 2021.

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  • Apr 26 — May 7, 2021

    Monday, May 10, 2021 in 2021

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    This iteration we closed 10 development points for a rolling velocity of 8. Our primary focus was on Princeton Geniza Project, but we did a small amount of planned work on the CDH website, ansible deploy scripts, and a very small amount of unplanned …

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  • Apr 12 — 23, 2021

    Monday, April 26, 2021 in 2021

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    This iteration we closed 11 development points for a rolling velocity of 19, still coming down from the massive number of points closed three iterations ago. Princeton Geniza Project We made more improvements to the data import, fixing …

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  • Mar 29 — Apr 9, 2021

    Monday, April 12, 2021 in 2021

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    The development points for this iteration were quite low (only 4 points), but our rolling velocity continues to be unnusually high (26 points) based on the last two iterations, which were included an enormous amount of work. Based on the design …

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  • Mar 15 — 29, 2021

    Monday, March 29, 2021 in 2021

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    The points and total number of issues closed for the last iteration is quite high — 42 points total, 25 for cdhweb and 17 for geniza, which results in a rolling velocity of 27. I’d like to think this is a sign that we’re gaining momentum …

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  • Mar 1 — 12, 2021

    Monday, March 15, 2021 in 2021

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    Rolling velocity for this iteration increased from about 10 points to about 15 points, largely due to a substantial chunk of CDH website user stories that completed the testing process together after multiple iterations. CDH Website This iteration we …

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