The Importance of Awareness

Semester 2 Week 6 (2/22-2/26)

This week was rough, Nick and I got into a couple of arguments but we rather easily resolved them and in resolving those arguments we found ways to work together and improve the team's work.  The team also realized where we were compared to where we wanted to be and pulled together to get us much closer to where we want to be.

Stress had been mounting this week due to the Sisyphean task of creating a stable build.  What finally broke us out of our funk was realizing and recognizing the bad work habits that had trapped us in a an endless cycle of fixing game breaking bugs and causing them at the same time.  Sometimes all that a person requires to clean up their bad behavior is simply recognizing that it is bad, all too often behavior that doesn't seem all that problematic ends up causing the most damage. By recognizing the damage we had been doing by inaction and accident we have been able to put together our first truly stable build of the semester.  We have also instituted several stricter rules for managing the repository and reporting our work, these rules have already shown some benefit to workflow and general team work efficiency.

I truly believe that the arguments Nick and I had are resolved to both of our satisfaction, both times a combination of stress and misunderstanding exacerbated the situation and caused our tempers to flare. Once we got to talking the issue out we quickly resolved our disagreements and learned something about each other. 

Also I am annoyed at myself for always ending up finishing these blog posts halfway through the next week. I start writing on Wednesday intending to finish on Thursday or Friday but something always comes up or I forget or some other obstacle. I am not sure what to do to fix this but I am making a push to get week 7 finished by Friday night.