chapter three
3 Preparing the groundwork
This chapter covers
- Deciding on the logistics of your bug bash
- Expanding your timeline with potential bug bash activities
- Beginning preparation of your working artifacts
- Finalizing your plan by discussing it with leads
Now that you have an informal yes from your leadership, it’s time to start preparing for your event. There are multiple areas to consider, and in this chapter, you’ll learn how to do the groundwork so that your bug bash goes as smoothly as possible.
3.1 Consider logistics
As tedious as good preparation and logistics may sound, the risk of failure for an event (and, in fact, for many other things in life) often stems from a combination of minor logistical shortcomings. You need to know what you’ll need to do before the event, so that during it, participants can do what they joined to do—test, as smoothly as possible, not wait for the organizers to juggle the basic logistics.