V-Base Development Blog

hello! bonjour! goeie dag! howzit!

today our v-base development blog is born. we’ve been talking about this for so long i can’t remember who came up with the original idea. anyway, we’re finally here. one of our aims for the first part of 2008 is to raise awareness/visibility of the work we’re doing.  we’re so much in the thick of this project that it’s easy to forget that other people (outside of youthnet’s senior management team) might be interested in what we’re up to.

well, i can tell you that we’ve been busy. boy, have we been busy. since starting to put together the development team halfway through 2007,  a lot has happened. our team has shrunk… grown… shrunk… grown again. technologies have been chosen… discarded… new technologies chosen. change is our team’s middle name. one of the reasons that we chose an agile approach for development was that we recognise that change is unavoidable and wanted to give ourselves a framework within which we can adapt and manoeuvre when new circumstances arise, without it chucking us completely off course. so far so good, though like every software project, just when you think the path has cleared, someone scatters marbles across it.

we’ll doubtless be talking quite a bit about agile on here. and technology. and volunteering. and possibly what we had for lunch. you’ll get to meet the team and if you stick around, knowing an awful lot more about our project than you’d hoped (or wanted) to. feel free to join in.

lots of volunteering love from team v-base 3

(tracey, camille, olivier, baazi, martin, paul)