Sprint 1 Schedule
Kickoff Meeting
When: Monday, May 18, 9:00 am. Don't be late!
Where: CTLM 102. All full-class meetings will be in this room.
What: We will discuss course logistics and have an agile process overview, followed by a few short introductions. Agenda includes:
- Cover the course goals.
- Initial lecture on Scrum.
- Overview of creating a team contract.
- Cover the overall course evaluation criteria.
- Talk about team dynamics and teamwork bookclub.
- Determine role assignments for each team.
- Introductions from helpful services
- Trefny Center - great resource for help on writing!
- Schedule team meetings with the advisors. You should meet with your client and create a team contract and requirements document prior to meeting with your advisor.
As you think about your team processes and your team contract, keep in mind the Agile Manifesto and the 12 Agile Principles. Another useful Scrum reference: Scrum primer.
Guest Speaker
When: Tuesday, May 19, 9:00 am. Don't be late!
Where: CTLM 102. All full-class meetings will be in this room.
What: Credera will present "Building Production Software: The Complete Software Development Lifecycle"
Lots to do!
Get off to a good start this sprint! Goals for the sprint include:
- Meet with your client. Should be done Tuesday (05/19) afternoon at the latest. If this is not possible, notify your advisor immediately.
- Understand the project requirements. Come up with questions for your client. Write the requirements document.
- Begin to use an agile (scrum-like) process.
- Pick a scrum tool (or learn the tool used by your client). There are various free tools you can find online, or you can do quite well with just a few Google Docs documents (for our small projects).
- Start to create use cases or user stories for your product backlog.
- Ensure that your team has a proper development environment.
- Learn new languages/technologies.
Deliverables
During this sprint the teams will create and submit on Canvas:
- a team contract.
- a requirements document.
- a bookclub reflection assignment
- The Product Backlog. Nothing to turn in, your advisor will review briefly. We will continue to work on this in Sprint 2.
- The associated use cases or stories. Nothing to turn in, these should be incorporated in your product backlog. We will continue to work on this in Sprint 2.
- a slide for the elevator pitch
Consult with your advisor on their preferred method of delivering various course documents to them.
Scrum
During your meeting with your advisor, you will practice:
- Do introductions of team and project
- Go over your Team Contract
- Go over your Requirements Document
- Go over your Backlog
- Talk about standups
Team member evaluation
To ensure all team members are contributing equitably and there are no team issues, the team will do a sprint retrospective during each advisor meeting. We will also use CATME to do peer evaluations two times during the session in Sprints 3 & 5.
