Last week, 22 Assembla team members came together from 10 countries to solve current problems and make plans for the next year. We met in beautiful Antalya, Turkey, over the Mediterranean, which the Turkish call the "white sea." We gained new energy and new momentum.
Assembla.com VP Sergey Golub wrote:
I would like to thank all of you for productive technical discussions and business ideas, for presentations you've made, for brainstorming big and small problems, for playing football/ping-pong/backgammon/chess together, for jumping in the waves in the sea and for lazy laying around a pool together, for singing in the bus during our travel and long walks in old city, for dancing turkish dances, for special English lessons and a lot of fun.
Sergey himself scored four football/soccer goals with a rocket right leg and grabbed a guitar from a local tavern performer to serenade us on Wednesday evening.
We worked at least 8 hours each day, from 8:30 to 12:30, then broke out for beach/gym/lunch from 12:30 to 14:30, then met again from 14:30 to 18:30.
A few of the concrete results were:
- We feel the need for speed, delivered by database upgrades and sharding.
- We will continue to break Assembla into smaller services and implement the MAXOS pattern. This is a megatrend that all of our development and ops guys are excited about.
- We will help you manage more of your Fast IT projects faster with a top level Portfolio Cardwall showing projects as them move through various stages, with summary reports. The wireframes and customers interviews for this are already well advanced.
- While we were there, we implemented the top request from our GitHub tool users allowing you to add multiple GitHub repositories in an Assembla project. This makes it easier to use Assembla's ticket and project management tightly integrated with GitHub repositories.
- We finished wireframes to reorganize the repositories under one tab, where you can easily access and add Git forks, Subversion, P4, GitHub or Bitbucket integration, deploy tools, and more - all of your coding needs in one place.
- We created a status page so users can easily view of the heath of our services with the ability to subscribe to real time communication.
- We will be trying out some experimental services to help you "get it done now." That's all I can say about it.
Thanks to the team, it was a lot of fun. Check out some pictures from our trip below:
