Gunjan Doshi

I am currently working on a cutting-edge J2ME \ XP project.
Now, we are doing daily iterations. In the morning, we get together, and develop an iteration plan. We have taken this approach, because there are more number of unknowns than knowns on this project. We want to mitigate the risk of unknowns, early on.

Here is an interesting story, yesterday, we had to code a Midlet that could send MMS (Multimedia Messaging) from a J2ME enabled device. At the end of the day (end of iteration), we had to deploy the Midlet on a real phone, not a emulator. At that point, we learned that there are no phones out in the market, which support sending out MMS within a J2ME application. Had we spent several weeks working on the emulator, we would have had to toss several weeks of work.

I feel this style of iteration planning works very well on a project, where the number of unknowns are large.

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