Planning and Collaborating
Explore how to develop HTML/CSS websites as a group. You will go through the
steps in
planning-and-collaborating
to prepare for the All About Trees project.
Before Class
- What is Agile?
- Retrospective Academy:
intro & chapter 1
- Being agile is about learning from mistakes and constantly improving, all
the details exist to make that possible
- The most important part of an agile project is the retrospective, it’s
when you learn from your mistakes and make better plans for the future
- During this module, your group’s retrospective will be the most important
deliverable!
- Take a first look through the steps in
planning-and-collaborating
During Class
Before Break
- 20 min: Review and Q/A
- 45 min: Discuss agile development & retrospectives as a class
- Ask many questions to learn from your coaches’ experience!
- How do you write a User Persona?
- How do you write a User Story?
- How do you Prioritize a Backlog?
- How do you write a Development Strategy?
- How do you follow a Development Strategy?
- 30 min: Create random small groups and read through
planning-and-collaborating
- 25 min: all together:
- Each group presents what was most unexpected for them
- Q/A with the coaches
After Break
- 10 min: All together, read through the
All About Trees
- 60 min: Return to your small groups and begin working on this week’s
deliverable with the help of your coaches. Your group should try to complete:
- Repository Setup
- Project Definition
- Constraints
- Communication Plan
- 20 min: Recap from each group and Q/A
- how far did you make it?
- what went well?
- what went less well?
- any tips to share?
After Class
In your groups, try to complete the
All About Trees deliverable. If you are not
able to complete everything that’s ok! You should still complete a
Retrospective and move your issue to Ready for Review before the next class.