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Daily Stand Ups 9am, 12pm, 3pm

  • What did you accomplish in the past 3 hours?
  • What will you finish in the next 3 hours?
  • What is blocking you? Can anyone help?

5 Key Principles

  1. Put the needs of the user first
  2. Release early, iteratively, and often
  3. Don't slow down delivery
  4. Only do it if it adds value
  5. Work in the open

Goals by Day

  • Wednesday 6/17- Getting Ready and Prep
  • Thursday 6/18- Settling on our Idea
  • Friday 6/19- Building a Backlog
  • Monday 6/22- Development begins, Draft Results page design, Build the MVP (minimal viable product)
  • Tuesday 6/23- Finish the MVP
  • Wednesday 6/24 - Thursday 6/25- Implement Extra Features
  • Friday 6/26- Monday 6/29- Use the user feedback to improve MVP and Extra Features
  • Tuesday 6/30- Harden Final Product
  • Wednesday 7/1- DELIVER THE PRODUCT!

Development Kanban through waffle.io

Development Kanban

  1. Backlog- Just an idea with a relative business value and an estimated job size.
  2. In Design- Working on a design for the idea, creating acceptance criteria, validating with users.
  3. Ready for Development- The idea is fully formed and is ready to be pulled into development.
  4. In Development- Implementing idea and writing/passing unit tests
  5. Ready for Test- Implementation is done according to the Definition of Done, unit tests have all passed, CodeNarc passed, peer reviewed, ready to be pulled into functional, automated, and user testing.
  6. In Test- Testing acceptance criteria, writing automated and functional tests, checking non-functional requirements, testing/validating with users.
  7. Ready for Deploy- All tests pass and ready for production deploy.
  8. Done- Product owner has accepted, has been merged into master, and has been deployed to production.