We have a bunch of different events that occur at regular times throughout the iteration on our agile project. Daily Stand-Up Meetings being a classic example. One of my colleagues, Perryn Fowler, has seen fit to delve into his library sound grabs to provide with a musical reminder of whats coming up...

It all started a few weeks ago, when Perryn worked on a particularly long and drawn out task. A bunch of tests were broken as a result of the work being started, and Perryn slowly clawed his way back to a working build with his new features in it. It took a few days all up, and we were keen to integrate the work. When it was finally time to commit, we heard a song being played from Perryn's desk with the following lyrics:

"I'm checkin' in."

"He's checkin' in."

"I'm checkin' in."

"Checkin' chekin' chekin'."

This is, for those who don't recognise it, is from the Simpsons episode "City of NY Homer Simpson" where Marge, Bart, and Lisa see a broadway musical in which a celebrity checks in to the Betty Ford Clinic.

At the stand-up meetings this week (which people generally don't get too excited about being first thing in the morning), Perryn again decided to pep up the team with a tune. On Tuesday morning, we had a tune from "Caravn of Love" by the Housemartins:

"Every woman every man"

"Join the caravan of love"

"(Stand up) stand up"

"Stand up"

"Every body takes a stand"

"Join the caravan of love"

"(Stand up) stand up"

"Stand up"

Then on Wednesday morning, Perryn went for some Bob Marley:

"Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!"

"Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!"

We've had great success with our musical introductions so far, and are on the hunt for more tunes to show events during the iteration.