lect07, Tue 04/14

Tuesday Lecture: Leadership, Retros, Learning plan

Homework

• Reminder about H02 (due tomorrow)
• H03 assigned (subject retros), due Friday 11:59pm
• lab00 is officially assigned (for next.js folks), due Friday

Today

Brief discussion of team leadership roles

• Leading a team MVP, story grooming discussion
• Leading a Retro
• Giving a class presentation
• etc.

Brief discussion of retros

• Choose today who will lead your first retro
• So, let’s discuss just enough so that you know what you are committing to
• https://ucsb-cs48.github.io/topics/retros/

Team Activity #1 in team/LEADERSHIP.md

Your project repo has a name of the form project-s0-t1-name.

It will show up if you are logged into GitHub, and use this search:

• https://github.com/ucsb-cs48-s20?q=project-

In your project repo, in file team/LEADERSHIP.md

• record who led the team discussion for Monday 04/13 (yesterday)
• record who will lead today’s team discussion
• record who will lead the full first team retro (Monday)

You can use a Markdown table to make this easy to read. It’s fine to just record this directly on the master branch, editing directly in the GitHub web interface.

Example:

# Leadership roles

| Date      | Name              | Activity                                               |
|-----------|-------------------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| Mon 04/13 | Chris Gaucho      | Led team discussion to define MVP, acceptance criteria | 
| Tue 04/14 | Lauren del Playa  | Led team discussion of learning plan                   | 
| Mon 04/20 | Taylor Chen       | Will lead first Retro                                  | 

Team Activity #2 in team/LEARNING.md

• Discussion of learning your stack
  • You should not be relying on us to “teach you” next.js or Spring Boot
  • In your team, discuss: current level of familiarity with team’s chosen tech stack
  • Discuss: how you as a team will learn the necessary skills
• Record in team/LEARNING.md a plan for learning the skills

More on the learning plan

The format of the learning plan is up to the team, as long as it includes the following:

• An brief assessment of the team’s existing strengths
  • Are there folks on your team that already have skills in one more important areas?
  • Can these folks help to onboard and train some of the other team members?
  • Can you “stategically pair”
• An brief assessment of areas where the team needs to develop it’s knowledge
  • What are the most signficant gaps in your team’s knowledge?
• A plan that includes specific committments by each team member (by name) as to what they will do over the next week (week 3) and the following week (week 4) to improve their skills

The plan could include things like:

• John commits to working through a tutorial on basic HTML/CSS during week 3, and a tutorial on React and React-Bootstrap during week 4.
• Susan commits to working through a tutorial on MongoDB during week 3, and learning how to work with MongoDB in a Next.js app during week 4.
• Alice and Bob will pair together during the MVP iteration, since Alice has more experience with the tech stack. Alice and Bob will use strong-style pairing with Bob at the keyboard as much as possible, until Bob feels confident.

An ideal plan will incorporate both breadth and depth:

• breadth involves baseline skills: everyone on the team should at least have certain baseline skills in the tech stack
• for depth, use divide-and-conquer: not everyone on the team needs to be a deep expert in everything

A Partial List of important technologies, by Stack

You might use this list to come up with ideas for your /team/LEARNING.md file.

Note that:

• This list is not necessarily complete. It’s just a “good start”.
• The tutorials linked to are just a starting point. They aren’t the only, or necessarily even the “best” tutorials—just the first ones that seemed reasonable to link to.
• As you find better resources, you are strongly encouraged to share those on the _articles channels on the Slack.

General Web Dev Skills

• HTML https://www.w3schools.com/html
• CSS https://www.w3schools.com/css
• Bootstrap 4 https://www.w3schools.com/bootstrap4

Next.js

• npm https://docs.npmjs.com/about-npm/, https://dzone.com/articles/a-beginners-guide-to-npm-the-node-package-manager
• React / JSX https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html#learn-react, https://www.w3schools.com/react/default.asp
• react-bootstrap https://react-bootstrap.github.io/
• next.js in general https://nextjs.org/learn/basics/getting-started
• Zeit now.sh https://zeit.co/docs
• MongoDb Cloud Atlas https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/, Free Course: https://university.mongodb.com/courses/M001/about

Spring Boot

• Maven https://ucsb-cs48.github.io/javatopics/maven/
  • And list of Maven topics here: https://ucsb-cs48.github.io/javatopics/
• Spring Boot https://ucsb-cs48.github.io/javatopics/spring_boot/
  • And list of Spring Boot topics here: https://ucsb-cs48.github.io/javatopics/
• Thymeleaf https://ucsb-cs48.github.io/javatopics/thymeleaf/

Project Specific APIs, data sources, etc.

Your project may have specific APIs, data sources, specialized skills etc. that you may need to work with.

It may helpful to identify the ones needed for your project, and be sure that at least one team member is looking into each of those.

Examples:

• Spotify API https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/
• Low level <canvas> element access for game element graphics, or frameworks that allow it
• Pusher (for real-time communication between the server and the client, e.g. for real-time chat, games, etc.) https://pusher.com/
• Mapping/Routing services such as https://openrouteservice.org/services/ and OpenStreetMap (Note that Google Maps is awesome, but it may be tough to get free access.)
• Reading data files into usable application data
  • Hard coded data objects for very small tables
  • Databases (SQL or MongoDB) for larger tables

Spikes, Skunk-works, Proofs of Concepts

You are not only permitted, but strongly encouraged even, to make additional repos in addition to your main project repo that contains extra “proof of concept”, and “practice code” for your project.

These are someetimes called spikes.

You can name these with private or public repos in the ucsb-cs48-s20 github org names such as spike-s1-t2-try-spotify-api and then give your team access to them.

You may want to make such repos part of your learning plan.

If you have extra time

• MVP kanban board column (if not fully done)
  • If the Kanban board column for your MVP is not complete (i.e all stories groomed with clear acceptance criteria), work on that.
  • This should be finished by Thursday if possible, next Monday midnight at the latest so your team is ready to start working a week from today.
• Finish anything you were “in the middle of” when time ran out yesterday.
• If that’s done, choose either:
  • Get started on the learning plan
  • Futher definition on iterations beyond MVP