All team members present for the retrospective. More small group async in week, based on current work.
Frontend
Jessie
Bansharee
Backend:
Kevin
Yizhen
ML:
Colton
Amittai
Yizhen
Recommednation:
Kevin
Amittai
Deployment:
Colton
Kevin
What worked well
Sticking to small team meetings, continuing distributed workload.
Continuing practice of high documentation (recommendation engine)
Using Tuesday meetings for long term alignment
Using GPT4 to automate some tasks (assigning cross topic complexities and affinities -> what are relation between topics?
What didn't
Figuring out how to validate our learning thesis properly - can people learn in short-form content if we feed them 10 videos sequentially? Do people survive the context changes between videos of our recommendation system.
Self-assessment on progress
Where are you in relation to progress towards product and milestones?
Recommendation Engine is maybe a little behind but on schedule, dealing with issues with price/computation time
Deployment for NGINX stream server is done
Support for Data visualization for backend is done
Some issues with building in swift and creating custom gestures for UI movement
Give an estimate of how far towards your goals you are, do you think you're on track?
We're on track. Aiming for some validation of ML and Rec system in 1-2 weeks. Finished Rec initial in 2 weeks.
Frontend to finish hardcoding pages (and hopefully linking to mock API) within the next 1-2 weeks, still have account pages (Jessie will do) and some parts of Explore, including search (Bansharee will do).
Lay out each of the following weeks till end of term with brief goals for each
4 weeks left
Rec System / Webscraping (video and transcript) / Topic Alignment /
Algorithm Clipping / Backend Link to Rec /
Rec/ML/DB Link / Frontend Backend Link
Deployment
Finish Frontend views (this week), link to mock API (by end of next week), link to backend
Additional notes
Internal share --> stretch
Friend system - stretch
Make it more goal-oriented
Evaluation/testing/validation/feedback - are we meeting our/the users' goals?
Some ideas: measuring retention/playlist, swipe rate, like/dislike, asking for feedback 5-10 videos later
How do people feel after a session? (Do they feel good about spending time on the app in retrospect?)
Sprint 5 Retrospective
All team members present for the retrospective. More small group async in week, based on current work.
Frontend
Backend:
ML:
Recommednation:
Deployment:
What worked well
What didn't
Self-assessment on progress
Where are you in relation to progress towards product and milestones?
Give an estimate of how far towards your goals you are, do you think you're on track?
Lay out each of the following weeks till end of term with brief goals for each
Additional notes