Category: Release Notes

July 7 – July 21: “Testing” is the theme of this sprint. Not only did we make this sprint primarily focused on internal testing, but we also set a release date to our patrons to give them access to an exclusive sneak peek to our staging environment and become stakeholders. Milestones: Bugs This release note…

June 22 – July 7: “Preparing” is the theme of this sprint. We knocked out a ton of tech debt, focused on reliability, logging, infrastructure, and iteration cycles. Company Milestones Release Notes Content Management Platform (CMP) Badges Mobile cleanup What’s next? This is an exciting chapter! We will be slowly introducing our patrons and volunteers…

June 9 – June 22: “Safe” is the best word to describe this sprint. We focused heavily on allowing users to block other users along with securing the platform after a user has been banned. We also onboarded several new bright engineers! Company Milestones Release Notes Banning The ugly truth is no app is going…

May 26 – June 9: “Resilience” Was the theme of this sprint. We focused Heavily on being critical of our current technology stack paying extra attention to supporting features, bugs, and security. We recently did an internal launch of our application via iOS test flight with all features enabled and put them under a microscope…

May 12 – May 26: “Reliability” is the word of this sprint as we wanted to focus on efforts to make us reliable to the users and be conscious there are going to be bugs when we release. Company Milestones Since the last sprint, we launched a new Instagram account and have already amassed 17.7K…

April 28 – May 12: “Luminance” as in the light at the end of the tunnel. This sprint was a turning point for the DrivnBye team. There were plenty of wins to celebrate and plenty of obstacles to overcome. Company Milestones As you may have noticed our instagram account has been down for a while.…

April 13 – April 28: “WOW” the the word of the sprint. Last sprint we focused on tidying up the app, and handling adverse events. That sprint set us up perfectly to make huge strides where we were able to take a step back and say “wow” we’re almost ready to begin user acceptance testing…

April 1st – April 14th “Safety First” was our choice of this sprints theme. Last sprint we discussed about working with our messaging system. Additionally, this sprint prioritised organisational tasks and involve a significant emphasis on design work. Milestones and Updates UI (User Interface) Messaging Posts We added Safe Zones! We focused on adding safe…

March 18 – March 31st: “Communication is Key” was the theme for this sprint. Last sprint we discussed working on inbox and search pages. This week, we started working on messages. That’s why we’ve also been busy creating search pages for accounts. This way, if you ever need to find someone’s account, it’ll be easier…

March 3 – March 17: “The little things” was the theme for this sprint. Last sprint we discussed wanting to move off the profile page and focus on the search page and inbox page. Although that was true and we did begin implementing them, we also focused on “the little things” like proper error handling,…