If you could ask anyone who joined Andela as a junior developer, what the most challenging phase of the whole recruitment process was, they would most definitely all answer that it was the Bootcamp phase.
In this phase, you are recommended to use all kinds of tools used by developers around the world, these vary from Version Control to Software testing tools. One of the tools that I found most interesting to me was a Project Management tool called Pivotal Tracker.
With Pivotal Tracker, you can create stories where each story represents either a feature, chore, bug or release. On the creation of a feature story, you get to set points and this can help determine the velocity of an individual or a team of developers working on that story. A story also has a description where you can write a short description of what outcomes are to be expected after the tasks are completed, but you can also add in more details like what the story's git branch-name would be called and more.
Another cool feature is that you can connect a Pivotal Tracker Project with its Github repository. Then in that way, any changes made to the repository are automatically tracked and can be registered as a means of finishing a particular story.
This tool was extremely useful to me because it has helped in organizing how the development tasks are carried out, and working on the project that was assigned to us in the Development Challenge.
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