CSC 322.01, Class 07: Start of first sprint

Overview

• Preliminaries
  • Notes and news
  • Upcoming work
  • Extra credit
  • Questions
• Presentation guidelines
• Presentations
  • PALS
  • Mayflower
  • Local Foods
  • Heartland
  • Callisto

Preliminaries

Notes and news

• Wednesday you’ll have class time to work on the project. KY and I will help you get projects up and running and interpret “documentation”.
• We may have a visitor Friday.

Upcoming work

• Weekly reports Friday (individual and group)

Good things to do: Academic

• CS Table: Ownership in the Digital Age
• CS Extras: The evolution of CSC 151

Good things to do: Miscellaneous

Questions

Presentation notes

• About five minutes, plus three minutes for questions.
• What your project is.
• What your roles are.
• What you’re going to do for the next two weeks.
  • With points.
  • (With user stories)

PALS

Roles:

• [Sam missed them]

The project

• Previously: Simplify communications
• Now: Aren’t sure. They need to meet with the client. They don’t want to make too many assumptions.

What works

• User registration and sign-in
• Admin sign-in and dashboard
• Community board with sort and reply features
• User profiles, with pictures
• Consistent CSS and background
• Somewhat mobile friendly

What doesn’t

• Does not embrace testing
• Users can delete and edit other posts
• Aesthetics
• No calendar / shift management (if the new managers want them)
• No notification system
• Can’t deploy to Heroku

First sprint

• 1 pt planning
• 2 pt group meeting
• 2 pt scheudle and attent meeting
• 1 pt getting it runing locally
• 1 pt Get it running on Heroku
• 2 pt styling

Questions

• Is it running? It can run on Cloud 9.a
• How are you associating points? 1 point is approximately one hour of pair programming.
• Everyone needs to look at code together.
• Have you met with the previous team? Not yet.
• What is the most difficult? Not sure yet.

Mayflower

• FA:: Techinical planner/Repo owner
• MD: UI
• SG: Team leader
• PM: Commmincator
• RS: Presentation lead
• Expecting to shift

Status

• Working (but not deployed) directory
• Currently requires the 322 team to update the pictures. Want to make it easier for them to use it.
• ….

Things to keep in mind

• Accessible
  • Large fonts
  • Clickable photos
  • Mobile friendly
• Update without student support!
• [Might also meet with experts here about these issues.]

Goals

• Read the tne-page Google doc. [2 points]
• Read the GitHub repo [2 points]
• Meet with the clients [1 point]
• Get the Trello, Slack, & AWS [1 point]
• Meet with SamR about privacy standards [1 point]

Questions

• Are you loooking at privacy. Yes.
• What is challenging: Google doc?
• Have their goals changed? Probably not.
• What do your points mean? (Time to fix.)

Local Foods

People

• SM: UI designer / co-lead presenter
• LP: Lead programmer / Manager
• EB: Organization, scheudling
• JM: Product owner
• PK: Lead programmer

Goal

• Build Web page that does interaction between the local community and the farmers.

History

• They met with the previous team and learned about the structure of the system.
• Used a lot of Javascript.
• Working in the back end may be hard because it’s disorganized.
• Need to look at recipes (choosing more appropriate)
• Need more filtering of map.
• More than bouncing cows.
• More farm-specific recipes.

This sprint

• Need to get familiar with code. [5 points]
• Develop questions. [2 points]
• Make plan to organize rails back end. [? points]
• Set up communication protocols. [2 points, spread out]
• Set up a time with Melissa to discuss goals [2 points]

Questions

• What will be the most difficult part in this sprint? Organizing the back end. The most time consuming part will be getting everything
• Are you splitting up into subgroups? Need to discuss the front-end back-end split.

Heartland

Members

• BH: Git Repo owner
• NA: Communicator with client; Product owner
• WS: Manager
• JR: Lead programmer
• .. ???

Client mission

Heartland is a group of places that came together to discuss international health. Global learning helps Iowa students and faculty. Lots of colleges and university groups.

Biggest outstanding tasks

• Conference registration and payment
• Need to meet with community partner to understand

Tasks

• Access to GitHub repo and read it [4pt]
• Group meetings [1pt]
• Meet with previous group [2pt]
• Meet with community partner [2pt]

Questions

• Meeting with community partner. Hard to schedule that many people.
• What’s the status of the payment system? Not sure. But Sam says “there’s a gem for that”.
• What are you must looking forward to? Figuring out the big picture. Understanding the implications.
• What does a lead programmer do?

Callisto

People

• MG: Manager, Presenter, Go-To Coding Helper
• AM: Tester, Product Owner
• AM: Front-end lead
• HF: Lead Programmer, Repo Manager, Go-To Coding Helper
• JZ: Scribe, Communicator, Product Owner

Tasks

• Add collaborators to GitHub repo
• Talk to primary client and make appointment with secondary client
• Take DJango Girls Official Tutorial
• Python Codecademy tutorial
• Understand the state of the code
• Read through issue sin repo