Andrii: Agile Development, 4 weeks

[andriivam]

Learning Objectives

Priorities: 🥚, 🐣, 🐥, 🐔 (click to learn more)

There is a lot to learn in this repository. If you can't master all the material at once, that's expected! Anything you don't master now will always be waiting for you to review when you need it. These 4 emoji's will help you prioritize your study time and to measure your progress: - 🥚: Understanding this material is required, it covers the base skills you'll need for this module and the next. You do not need to finish all of them but should feel comfortable that you could with enough time. - 🐣: You have started all of these exercises and feel you could complete them all if you just had more time. It may not be easy for you but with effort you can make it through. - 🐥: You have studied the examples and started some exercises if you had time. You should have a big-picture understanding of these concepts/skills, but may not be confident completing the exercises. - 🐔: These concepts or skills are not necessary but are related to this module. If you are finished with 🥚, 🐣 and 🐥 you can use the 🐔 exercises to push yourself without getting distracted from the module's main 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 ...
  • [ ] inspect the source code of a web page using the Sources tab
  • [ ] find any part of the web page in the Elements tab of your Dev Tools DOM inspector
  • [ ] find the styles for any element in the Elements tab
  • [ ] 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
  • [ ] 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.

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[andriivam]

I Need Help With:

• Planning as there so many files and its take time to understand them all and use properly.

  What went well?

• If don't talking about some conflicts when we was doing PR rest was pretty good.

What went less well?

• I had some issue with npm install but it was because I updated my IOS. Also we had some conflicts when we creating PR but we fixed it.

  Lessons Learned

• On my opinion communication is the most important part of the job in group project.

Sunday Prep Work

• Im studying HTML and still trying to be more confident with all planing documents.

[colevandersWands]

Planning as there so many files and its take time to understand them all and use properly.

plenty of time to practice this. it's the main objective of this module, and you'll use the same process and documents all the way through the final project

[danielhalasz]

@andriivam as Evan said, we will use the exact same process in the next weeks as well in terms of teamwork, HTML, CSS, so you have time to get more familiar with it.

[andriivam]

Thank you for your comments and really hope to learn and completely understand they how to planing web page from begging)

[andriivam]

Week 2

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Need help in:

Css kind difficult to understand what parameters should I write for each elements.

What went well?

• Planning documentation we did much more faster than last time
• Now I feel much more confident with HTML
• Creating issues and project board.
• How to work in the team
• How to create classes for css and how to use them

What went less well?

• CSS styling/order

Lessons Learned

• How to work in the team like in real life. Sometimes it could be difficult and as I say before in the team work probably the most important is COMMUNICATION!!!
• To learn HTML and css need to practice a lot. And they which work for me don't try to do huge web page better is to learn parts by parts (css) as for big web page css can really big and its easy to get lost there.

[danielhalasz]

@andriivam you are right in everything you say. Communication is key in development work and getting fluent in CSS takes time too. Also, it is good to work on elements, sections of a site, you can even play with the dev tools to see how each change influences the appearance of the page. Once you are more confident with that, you can also focus on positioning each section in the right place within the viewport.

[andriivam]

@danielhalasz Thank you for advise. I will try to use more dev tools. Also I understand why so nice to babe big screen when you are coding)

[andriivam]

Week 3

I Need Help With:

Im still study css as its not so easy to understand and learn fast. But also I have problem with Bootstrap. I just understand some thinks in css, how I can use them and now I don't know how to apply them in Bootstrap as its ready framework.

What went well?

Our planning documentation. Now, every time its better and better and also new level of quality.

Lessons Learned

Team and communication is the important in Agile Development. Also need to divide your time for study and project separately.

Sunday Prep Work

Still on the preparation. Trying to understand Bootstrap

[danielhalasz]

@andriivam if your team is more comfortable using regular CSS, then just decide on a naming convention and use that instead of Bootstrap.

[andriivam]

Week 4

I Need Help With:

I feel that everything slowly coming and stay in my had. But still need to practice with css values to better understand them. And would be nice also to get some guide for media queries, how to set values for classes in right way.

What went well?

Grid. I used the grid to create the card and i really liked. Even my css file are really simple as i dint need to set a lot of values. Also the communication and planning goes really well.

Lessons Learned

As always want to mention about the communication as its a key for success. But also i learned that always need to follow some system and before to use any system like bootstrap, gird, flexbox need to learn and understand them.

Sunday Prep Work

Im done with my part so now doind FreeCodeCamping and Scrimba courses to improve my skills.

[danielhalasz]

@andriivam this article shows you more about media queries and the standard sizes: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/css-media-queries-breakpoints-media-types-standard-resolutions-and-more/

[andriivam]

Thank you @danielhalasz i will take look there))