Retrospective

Happy New Year! The company that I currently work for operates an agile software development process and employs SCRUM as an iterative incremental framework for managing complex work.

At the end of each Sprint cycle our team holds a Retrospective to:

• make continuous improvements to the development process
• reflect on the previous sprint
• set goals for the next sprint

Therefore, I thought I would conduct a simple XNA retrospective for 2009 and set goals for 2010.

2009 Achievements

Complete XNA 2.0 book Complete XNA 3.0 book Buy Zune 2nd gen. 120 Gb Buy Zune HD 32Gb Platinum Upgrade XNA Game Studio 3.1 Zune Extensions Give XNA presentation Setup XNA blog with monthly posts Publish Henway XBox LIVE Indie Game Note: purchasing and configuring Zune device outside United States is an achievement!

2010 Objectives

XNA general development	XNA 3.1 development	ZUNE development
3D graphics Networking Unit tests Mocking Physics	Avatar personalization Xbox LIVE Party Video support	Accelerometer Touch panel 3D graphics

One final goal is to become more active in the XNA Creators Club: contribute more in the forums and participate more in the playtest and review process.