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Sprint 3

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Our teams week 4 Sprint meeting took place on 25th September in The Hub in Áras na Mac Léinn right after our Advanced Professional Skills lecture. Like we agreed during our last Sprint, we started off by creating a 'week4' channel on Slack to communicate with each other and to help us plan any tasks we have to complete to stay on track with our agenda.

Formally the Planning meeting started off by writing up all the tasks we have to complete before next week and following that we started discussing who should complete each task.

We have recently started to take a different approach when working our assignments for the module. We found a quote and decided to implement it, or at least try to, when doing our work. "It's not work if you're having fun!", keeping that in mind we took into consideration who enjoyed which parts of the trial-run exercises we did in class and based on our personalities and preferences we divided the workload up as evenly as we could.

Unfortunately one of our team members came down with the flu the past weekend, he made it through the Sprint but we could tell he was really pushing himself. Naturally, we accommodated the workload to suit this situation, after all, that's what teammates do.

It's amazing what one meeting a week can do to improve teamwork and even more so, deepen friendship and give us an incredible sense of comradery. 

We made sure to talk about any issues or difficulties any of us had with the material.

 Four heads are better than one after all!

We went over everything we've done with regards to our entrepreneur idea: ThawFreeze and discussed anything that was unclear. It's very important to us that we're all on the same page when talking bout it and knowing what other team members are working on helps as well as it eliminated the chances that two people are working on the same task.

We finished the meeting after that.

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