All I had to say was "Thanks for your compliment."

Had I known what was to follow, I would have hugged him saying, "Thanks for your compliment"

15th May 2021

My Internship at Cognizant is closing in on the final project. All teams are busy in the planning phase of their topics and scrum planning dividing tasks and user stories among teammates. Our scrum master had divided the teams based on two students with a Computer science background and three students with a non-CS background. 

But to our misfortune, we elected the group leader who left the internship midway, leaving us with a topic he was confident in and we were not so sure about. Of course, at the time of topic selection, we had brainstormed through ideas but he convinced us on that topic, and we accepted to the point that we will get to learn something new, something different from the other teams. 

Now, what we were left with was something new, something different from other teams not to learn from it, but to anyhow complete the project. We took up the challenge and motivated each other that we will do as much as we can and let our Scrum master decide our fate. But for now, we will give our best. 

We sat down for hours making the user stories, seeing through codes and building the framework on whose basis we will execute the code that we add individually. 

Approximately, 25% into the final project, in our daily meetings of the whole cohort, the scrum master took notes our every team's progress. Our team no. was No.5 and we were waiting patiently for our turn. 

Team No.3's progress was seriously lagging, and our scrum master was scolding them for their slow progress. The teammates started to argue with him, and although I could understand some of their points were legitimate, we kept quiet and let them discuss it. 

But I became impatient when he dragged our team into the quarrel saying, other teams like No.5, and No.2 are not even doing the project themselves. Well, the group lead of team No.2 didn't take it very well and jumped into the chaos being rude to the guy. I quickly messaged in my team group to keep quiet and let me handle the situation. 

i accept in my school days, I was always the short-tempered guy, but with passing years I had learned to control my anger and channel it in a more efficient way.