I've had a couple of days out of the rigours of sprinting and developing code, a chance to wind down and do other things for a while. "Other things" has so far been bug fixing and planning for the next sprint. Now ordinarily, bug fixing isn't a great love of mine, I don't think it's a passion for many developers I've come across, but I think I'm learning to love it, and here's why.
In the process of fixing bugs, I've had a healthy reminder that there are real users at the end of our processes, that these people don't get to communicate with us geeks nearly enough, and of course it is good to be fixing stuff that causes people pain.
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