After an hour of falling asleep to yet another Java video, I’d had it. I decided to check our agile backlog for user stories that I might be able to manage. Several stories down, I FOUND ONE. It’s a very simple story where one needs to add “Invoice Received Date” to the payment transaction screen. I also have to make sure a person can download this field with all the other fields in an Excel file and in a pdf (which may be trickier), but it looks, overall, like a simple enhancement. I checked with our product owner, and she’s good with the fact that this might take me a while, seeing as it will be my first story. The thing has been out on the backlog for 95 days, so it’s not like anyone has been screaming for it. I know this sounds confusing, seeing as I said “agile”. We actually work Kanban, so I don’t have to have this done for a sprint. I will, however, have to keep an eye on our release dates.
I’m just so thrilled to finally have some real work to do!
