Intro
This recurring assignment will require you to produce weekly status reports on your project, similar to what professional software engineering teams do on a far more frequent basis.
Note that this assignment isn’t a replacement for a Kanban board: You can use the status of your Kanban board to help figure out what you write here, but the purpose of this assignment is to give us a series of static snapshots of your progress throughout the semester, rather than a fluid Kanban board to track your entire backlog of tasks.
Requirements
Every team will submit a PDF to LATTE every week with their team name, the current date, and a chart similar to this example:
| Who | Completed | In Progress | Slowed/Blocked |
|---|
| Chris | Create paper prototypes | Update cohort analysis | Mark Zuckerberg is not returning my calls. |
| Charlie | Set up GitHub repo and Heroku app
Implement account creation page | Overall UI design - Built paper prototypes
- Working on writing the stylesheets
Implement responsive buttons via Ajax | |
| Terry | | Set up "my profile" page, Implement calendar syncing | |
Suggestions
- Every week, start writing this chart by copying the one you submitted last week.
- Delete everything that was in its “Completed” column last week. (i.e. there shouldn’t be anything more than a week old in “Completed”, otherwise that column would get really big really fast)
- Update each entry in the “In Progress” column, either by moving it to “Completed” or “Slowed/Blocked”, or by leaving it in “In Progress” and writing a bullet-point explanation of what work has been done that week.
- This will help us see the progression of each task as it gets worked on and make sure each task is accounted for.
- Use “Slowed/Blocked” to list tasks that are waiting on something beyond your control.
- Example: If you’re trying to integrate with a web service and you’ve sent their support team an email, now you’re waiting on that before work can continue.
- Don’t worry about reporting too much or too little! We’re not grading the quality of your contributions every single week, we’re just using these for insight into your work over the course of the semester.
Grading
This is a team participation assignment:
- Only one person from each team needs to submit the PDF on LATTE each week.
- The assignment will be due every week we have class, with a separate LATTE slot.
- Every team member will receive a grade of 100 if a good-faith effort was put into the submission, otherwise, they will receive a grade of 0.