Week March 17 - 21

For this week I worked from the client side, we are in Chicago. The purpose of this week  was to show to the client the work that has been done, get more information that helps us do in a better way our work and continue with the order processing topic.

The week started with a shortly meeting with the client, where we met for the first time. That  gave me background to be kind of prepared to the next day. So, for the real meeting, we did a presentation about what is done, what is missing, a little retrospective and got some information.

I showed to the client how a part of the administration side of the application works, and solved some doubts that came after the demonstration. Moreover after talking about the way  in which orders are going to be managed we got a kind of agreement. We propose to the client to manage their preorders with the feature that spree offers, that is a backorderable order, and we will finish the customization of this to give them what they want by adding a field on the product administration page, that says when the product becomes available, and automatically, change that pre-order status and add stock to the product.

For this week are not too many learnings on the technical side, instead of that we got a rich learning  of the client side. Not all the clients are the same, so as a developer I need to figure out the best way to show and say things. Images and diagrams are a helpful tool. We don't need to compromise to everything, as a professional, we need to know when to say no. Sometimes we need to going slowly on the project to make the client confortable, press the client make things not progress.