Last Wednesday of the month meant it was time for the monthly meetup of Women Who Code, Brisbane! This month there was pizza, I had the pumpkin and goat cheese pizza, and a pizza based game to explain the principles of Kanban.

The Kanban Pizza game was developed by Agile 42 and seems like a pretty effective way to learn Kanban principles. I joined three other coders to form Mama's Pizza while Cathie Hagen, a Lead Consultant at ThoughtWorks, hosted the games and taught us the basics of Kanban. I am happy to say that Mama's Pizza was able to produce many slices of delicious paper pizza but only after enacting Kanban principles.

During the first round, while we instinctively assigned each other set roles and had a rough flow, but we fell into the assembly line mentality of trying to make as many slides as possible. But the slides were too small, and our product owner rejected all three slides we managed to get out of the oven. But from round 2, as we learnt and applied Kanban principles, we were able to produce more slices and passed muster. It was fun and good time, but I also felt I learnt something. I don't always make the meetups for the Women Who Code group, but I am glad I made it to this month's meetup.

Lastly, before the game started, we got a few announcements for upcoming events. The one that caught my attention was the Internet Freedom Hackathon. Certainly a topical hackathon for the times we are living in and I'll certainly keep my eyes on this event.