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Summary

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

Related Pages

Overview

• Debrief on client meetings.
• User stories.
• User stories exercise.
• Plan for client meetings.
• Client meetings.

Administrivia

• Don't forget to send me your resume if you have not done so already.
• Today will include time for you to meet with your team and discuss things, while AOA and I help.
• You will also meet with community partners. I'd like the Resource Portal team to be responsible for transporting the Notification Team. I will transport the other two teams.
• Alumni mentors will be here next week. Plan to be with them noon to 5:30 p.m.
• Does every team have a person who knows about user stories?

Upcoming Work

• Assign roles.
• Send email to your mentor introducing yourself.
• Review the codebase.

Good Things to Do

Academic

• CS Extras Thursdays! Today's topic: \LaTeX. Next week: Alums.
• CS Table Tuesdays! Upcoming topic: Copyright.
• Cool talk Monday at 4:15 on Working in Public.
• Important talk Monday on "The Complex Relation Between Alcohol and Sexual Assault."

Peer

• Track and Indoor Field 10 a.m. Saturday

Debrief: Working with Clients

Conducted by Susan Sanning from CLS.

User Stories

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

User Stories Exercise

You are building a better four year planning system

• Whole group question: Who are your audiences?
• We will break into individual groups to conduct user interviews.
• We will come back together with the stories we have gathered.
• Strive for relatively small/narrow stories.

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.