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Back to Outline 02 - Introduction, continued. On to Outline 04 - Mentor Meetings (Tentative).

Summary

We plan for and meet with our partners to gain an initial perspective on the projects.

Related Pages

Overview

• User stories.
• User stories exercise.
• Plan for client meetings / Small-group résumé reviews.
• Client meetings / Large-group résumé reviews.
• Debrief on client meetings.

Administrivia

• Picnic!
• Alumni visits confirmed for the 17th. Plan on lunch and dinner with alums, if at all possible!
• Can today's two teams transport themselves, or should I attempt to acquire an auto?
• Work for next week:
  • Everyone - Overviews of existing codebase - questions, ideas, notes, etc.
    • Resource bank can look at the food pantry code.
  • User stories.
  • Whatever you think will be useful to get ready for your first meeting with the mentors.

User Stories

• What are they?
• How do we build them?
• How do we use them?

User Stories Exercise

You are building the Grinnell online teaching system (GOTS) for the Ruby programming language

• Whole group question: Who are your audiences?
• We will break into individual groups to conduct user interviews. NBB and I will simulate certain kinds of users. Others of you will have to simulate others.
• We will come back together with the stories we have gathered.
• Strive for relatively small/narrow stories. Not "As a student, I want to learn." or "As a College official, I want to publicize the College so that I can recruit more full-pay students." (Well, maybe the latter.)

R&ecaute;umeé reviews

Reread the r&ecaute;umeés of the folks in your group, keeping the following questions in mind.

• What story does the r&ecaute;umeé tell? (If you had to summarize the person in two sentences based on this r&ecaute;umeé, what would you say?
• What is something in this r&ecaute;umeé that you might adapt for your own r&ecaute;umeé?
• What makes this r&ecaute;umeé stand out from the others you read?
• What are two things you would improve in this r&ecaute;umeé?

I will wander through groups.

Client meeting prep

• What are important questions that you have for your client?
• Some starting ones:
  • "What do you see as the primary mission of your organization?"
  • "We are new" (or "this is a new project"); "Can you describe the goals of the project from your perspective?"
  • "What things do you think it is most important for the project to do?"
  • ...

Client meetings

Some students will head off to work with their clients.

R&ecaute;umeé reviews, continued

The remaining students will look at global issues in their r&ecaute;umeés.

Debrief: Working with Clients

Conducted by CLS.