Hyderabad Blitz - Days 9-11
The delegation of folks here not from India is thinning. We are down to Mike Hugos, myself, and Paul Ulyett, an experienced IT strategist who is helping mentor our local PM in running an agile PMO. The project is running ahead of schedule, the team velocity is good.
Today we introduced the concept of the daily build. Normally, this would be easy, if it were not for the fact that this project is largely MOSS/Infopath/WF, without a lot of code. The question is, of course, how do you automate your build in this environment? Our team here on the ground does not know, and thus, I am forcing them to do so manually until they figure it out. While I have my differences with the capital-A-Agile crowd, I certainly agree with them 100% that daily (or even more frequent, if possible) builds, from the ground up, are a precondition to not having integration surprises.
If anyone has experience automating builds of applications that are built on the Infopath/MOSS stack, please email me at aarone@magenic.com with your experiences.