Scrum Report - Workshop 2

[KDhieb]

What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)? What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?

Include your CSID in your post.

[KDhieb]

Scrum Update - Khalid Dhieb (h2w7b)

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)? I worked on collaborating with my team on brainstorming project ideas, mapping out features, and helping design the lofi prototype sketch.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? Ironing out the details of the projects and breaking down the features into minimum, standard, and stretch requirements.

3. What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)? Will begin dividing up the work, designing the front-end and getting started with the React aspect of the project with my team. I will also be looking into ML approaches to the recommendation feature alongside my team so we can decide on an approach.

[Parmvir-S]

Parmvir Shergill (CSID: q3l6c)

These past two weeks I participated in and contributed to two team meetings. I brainstormed some ideas and helped come up with some requirements/tasks for our finalized music recommender idea. One challenge I faced was trying to come up with project ideas that were interesting to everyone and were large enough for a 4-month project-based course. In the next two weeks, I plan on helping set up the basic application structure and starting on the minimum required tasks. I also plan on looking into what technology is needed for the project such as machine learning libraries, redux, bootstrap, specific npm packages, and 3rd party APIs.

[rrichc]

Scrum Update - Richard Chen (n4z2o)

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)? As a team, we worked on coming up with various project ideas, then finalizing that idea and refining it into the current project requirements we have now (minimal, standard, stretch) along with the sketches.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into? I think the biggest challenge so far was deciding exactly which project idea we would go with. We knew we wanted to do something ML related, but struggled to decide what idea to settle on which would be well documented in online sources/tutorials, API documentation as none of us have in-depth ML experience.

3. What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)? The key thing we'll need to do first is decide as a team, how to build a good base structure of the application so we that can divide work and work on things async, without creating merge conflicts. We'll need to:

   • Create the file/app structure for the front-end (main focus)
   • Search a song in Spotify API
   • Return a list of songs from Spotify API matching search
   • Navigate site
   • Start sourcing strategies to implement the ML recommendation model and dataset
   • Start a bit of the backend to host the ML

[aalchen]

Amy Chen (c9p6e)

1. What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?

I joined two calls with my team: one to generate and bounce around potential project ideas, and the other to flesh out the submission details for the first Project check-in before Workshop #2 and prototype.

2. What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?

Trying to figure out the scope of what was possible within the timeframe provided while breaking it down into smaller tasks, as it is a bit to tell what is too simple or too complex for this course. This is particularly true as all of our group members aren't super familiar with ML, but we think we figured out a good balance for what is feasible.

3. What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?

I plan to help distribute work within our team after breaking down the tasks into more actionable and measurable items, and complete my portion. I will help work on creating the basic application structure, and do some more research required on the technologies required - particularly the ML portion, and the Spotify API due to my lack of knowledge in those areas.

[JeromeTing]

Scrum Report (Jerome Ting - CSID: k3a0b)

What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?

For the past 2 weeks we focused on brainstorming, fine-tuning the details for the project, where I participated in the group meetings and discussions for the final project, as well as digitizing the prototypes for the project.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?

The main issues that I ran into is scoping the idea to be congruent with the requirements of this course (such as having a project be educational, but also challenging given the stack and time constraints). Identifying the main components of ML was also a challenge as we collectively don't have a lot of experience in the area.

What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?

For the next 2 weeks we plan to tackle the minimum requirements for the project. I plan to help in the discussion for distributing the tasks, help set-up the main components of the website, as well as also bringing up my knowledge of our components (such as the ML aspect potentially with sci-kit or using kaggle datasets, and familiarize myself with the Spotify API).