Some projects teams throw a small office party for major releases - so why not for 1000th commit? 1000th commit is a good marker, usually project has progressed quite nicely by that time. Do you celebrate or give any extra attention to such 'magic number' commits? ...
I've heard of companies issuing 'gold disks' to developers, ie the shipped dvd sprayed gold and mounted in a frame with a metal plaque underneath. I think Microsoft used to give everyone who worked on the project a copy of the box which was finally shipped (so the more boxes on the book case the longer someone had worked there). Problem ...
I'm part of a small development team (3-4 of us) that uses the Scrum methodology. One of the team is a developer out in India, (we're in the UK), which actually works really well for us, we have daily scrums through Skype calls. I'm going to do a sprint retrospective at the end of this week. This has been a pretty significant sprint for...