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Hello Steemians, today we have for you our 5th installment of weekly SMT progress reports.

<h1>Not All Flatlines are Fatal</h1>

As you can see from the chart, it would appear that the team has stalled. That isn’t quite true.
In addition to coding and testing, our development process requires code reviews in order for us to call it done and count as progress. We had some key team members out this week which caused our work to be stalled in a state of pending code review. 

We actually work in two-week iterations (this is week 1) and all of the current sprint work needs to be completed by the end of the iteration. We share our weekly progress here with you, but for us it is most important that we finish the work we set out to do over the course of the two-week iteration. You’ll likely see a larger than average list of finished work items next week. 

**SMT Scope added last week:**

*https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/3148 - asset_symbol_type::from_nai_string() not parsing properly
*https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/3144 - Allow smt_create_operation to reset setup



**SMT Scope completed last week:**

*None.

![image3.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmWKQusdMPcXNC9baHYNHMvTviDnfqTLxkRYLdq9EDwL4J/image3.png)

*The blue dots symbolize the number of points that we have completed for SMT development. For those who don’t know, assigning “Story Points” is part of Agile Software Development. They are a [“unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work”](https://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/blog/what-are-story-points) and determined by using a [Fibonacci Scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_scale_(agile)).*

The team will assess our progress against the trendline at the end of next week and determine if we’ll need to reduce scope for SMT MVP and/or provide new release dates. Thank you for following along on this journey with us!

_The Steem Blockchain Team_

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*Our goal with this series is to bring even more transparency to the development process of Smart Media Tokens. In addition to these weekly reports, you can follow along on our GitHub project [organization and tracking system for SMT development](https://github.com/orgs/steemit/projects/14) which is (usually) updated daily.*