Brian Munene: Agile Development, 4 weeks

[BrianMunene96]

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Learning Objectives

0. Developing HTML & CSS

Practice with the skills, tools, and workflows you will need to efficiently develop websites written with HTML & CSS.

• 🥚 VSCode: you can ...
  • [x] use the LiveServer extension to launch an HTML page in the browser
  • [x] use autocomplete to begin a new HTML document, create new tags, and much more
  • [x] use the HTML CSS Support and IntelliSense fo CSS class names extensions to make writing HTML & CSS more efficient
• 🥚 Formatting HTML & CSS: You can ...
  • [x] use VSCode configurations to format your code on save
  • [x] use npm run format to format all the code in your repository
• [x] 🥚 Linting CSS: You can use the npm run lint:css script to find mistakes in your CSS, and you can fix the mistakes.
• [x] 🥚 Validating HTML: You can use the npm run validate:html script to find mistakes in your CSS, and you can fix the mistakes.
• 🥚 Browser Developer Tools: You can ...
  • [x] inspect the source code of a web page using the Sources tab
  • [x] find any part of the web page in the Elements tab of your Dev Tools DOM inspector
  • [x] find the styles for any element in the Elements tab
  • [x] make temporary changes in a web page from the Elements tab to see how they will look

1. Following Plans

Practice working together in a group to build small websites in incremental steps according to a plan. You will be given final code, a detailed plan to rebuild it, and will need to work as a group following the processes in Planning and Collaborating.

• [x] 🥚 Project Definition and Scope: As a group, you can agree on what you are trying to build, and can clearly describe the project using a README and a repository description.
• 🥚 Project Constraints: As a group you can define project constraints by discussing your strengths, weaknesses and context. You can set these types of constraints:
  • [x] External: constraints that come from outside your group
  • [x] Internal, Involuntary: constraints that come from within your group, but your group did not decide to have.
  • [x] Internal, Voluntary: constraints your group decides on to improve the quality of your development process and final software.
• [x] 🥚 Communication Plans: You can work with your group mates to agree on a communication plan to follow during development.
• [x] 🥚 Communicating Challenges: During development you can discuss with your group when ...
  • you are blocked and need help the agreed channels of communication.
  • your schedule or availability changes
  • you are having trouble getting along with each other
• [x] 🥚 Using a Backlog: You can develop from a backlog of features organized by priority:
  • must-have
  • should-have
  • could-have
• [x] 🥚 Follow a Development Strategies: You can follow a development strategy to understand the code required for must-have user stories.
• [x] 🥚 Create Issues From a Dev Strategy: You can create issues for user stories in your project based on the development strategy.
• 🥚 Retrospective: Your group can complete a retrospective to ...
  • [x] assess how well you worked as a group
  • [x] find ways to improve in the next project
  • [x] compare your plan to the reality of developing your website
• 🐣 Claiming and Completing Issues: You can claim issues from the TODO column of a project board and ...
  • [x] track your progress with the project board
  • [x] develop your code locally on a separate branch
  • [x] send a PR that passes CI checks and meets the requirements
• [x] 🐣 Code Review: You can both review a group mate's PR, and productively participate in a review of your own code.
• [x] 🐣 Match a Design & Acceptance Criteria: When developing your tasks, you can write code that matches the project's Wireframe and meets your issue's Acceptance Criteria.

2. Writing Plans

Practicing writing your own plans as a group. You will be given only the final code for HTML/CSS web pages, your group will need write a detailed plan for rebuilding the website in small steps.

• [x] 🥚 Write User Personas: As a group you can describing your site's users with User Personas, and you can use the personas to plan your website from the user's perspective.
• [x] 🥚 Write User Stories: Given a working web page, you can describe it with user stories and acceptance criteria for each user story.
• [x] 🐣 Write a Backlog: After listing all the user stories for a web page, you can organize them into a Backlog by priority: must-have, should-have and could-have
• [x] 🐣 Create a Prioritized Design: Using your backlog and the original site as a guide, you can create a Wireframe of the site your group will build. You can use different colors and comments to indicate a priority for each component in the Wireframe.
• [x] 🐣 Write a Development Strategies: You can translate your Wireframe and Backlog into a Development Strategy for the must-have user stories.

3. Adapting Plans

Even the best plans are not perfect, it's not possible to know everything ahead of time! You may be able to plan everything ahead of time when the web pages you build are very small and you have the code ahead of time, but it's a whole different thing when you need to build a larger web page over a longer period of time.

In this chapter you will practice full Agile Development by developing a larger, open-ended web pages and adapting your plans as you go. Your team will need to make an initial plan, but the plan will change! Practice having regular meetings with your group to review the website's progress, review your plan, and make any changes in the plan that are necessary to keep the project on schedule.

• [x] 🐣 Adjusting the Backlog: As a group you can agree to changes in the backlog when necessary.
• [x] 🐣 Adjusting the Design: As a group you can agree on changes to the design during the development process when it becomes clear your old design needs updating.
• [x] 🐣 Updating the Project Board: You can manage the project board by adding, removing or updating issues when necessary. This includes changing labels, milestones, or assignees when necessary.

[BrianMunene96]

Week 1

• [ ] I have pushed my progress to my fork of exercises repo

I Need Help With:

Most things are clear as of now 😊

What went well?

Coming up with a backlog for our group assignment was enjoyable. As a group, we were able to meet and share ideas on the various deliverables in the planning and collaboration task. I have also come to see how important it is to work in an Agile way as a developer.

What went less well?

My work schedule for the week made joining group meetings a little difficult. However, I was able to find a compromise.

Lessons Learned

• Working in an Agile way.
• Working in a group to achieve a common goal.
• Being flexible in the development process

Sunday Prep Work

I a currently reviewing HTML and CSS in preparation for the HYF Redesign task.

[BrianMunene96]

Week 2 Agile Development: Loruki Rebuild

I Need Help With:

Most things are clear as of now 😊

What went well?

In this week we were able to better redesign/redefine user personas and come up with more convincing user stories. This makes the development process much smoother.

What went less well?

It's a bit hot indoors and even outdoor so it's been rather difficult to concentrate

Lessons Learned

• Working in an Agile way.
• Working in a group to achieve a common goal.
• Being flexible in the development process
• Defining user stories to advise the development strategy

Sunday Prep Work

I a currently reviewing HTML and CSS in preparation for the HYF Redesign task.

[BrianMunene96]

Week 3 Agile Development: HackyourFuture Website Rebuild

I Need Help With:

Most things are clear as of now 😊

What went well?

As a group, we started with the planning files for our project which we were able to finish within the first two days. With a clear view of the overall project, it was much easier to break down the project into sizeable bits for each member to work on.

What went less well?

Time management was rather difficult this week but I was able to get most things done

Lessons Learned

• Working in an Agile way.
• Working in a group to achieve a common goal.
• Being flexible in the development process
• Defining user stories to advise the development strategy

Sunday Prep Work

I a currently reviewing HTML and CSS as part of my daily goals

[BrianMunene96]

Week 4 Agile Development: HackyourFuture Website Rebuild

I Need Help With:

So far so good 😊

What went well?

Working on our project has been rather straightforward since we have written out all the issues we need making it a bit easier for group members to assign themselves and proceed with their work.

What went less well?

I have been a bit unwell and struggled to finish my issues and daily goals on time but I keep pushing 💪

Lessons Learned

• Working in a group to achieve a common goal.
• CSS styling (flexbox and grid)

Sunday Prep Work

I a currently reviewing HTML and CSS as part of my daily goals