Retrospective 1 - paceuniversity/cs3892015team1 GitHub Wiki
Sprint Goal
The goal was to create a working prototype of our app. We wanted to implement the ability for a user to take photos, associate a word with those photos, and then browse the photos in a gallery.
Number of User Stories
Planned: 3
Implemented: 2.5
Velocity
Planned: 28
Actual: 23
Sprint Retrospective
What should the team start doing?
We should try to work together more often, have more meetings. That might help communication and give everyone in the team a better understanding of the final project.
What should the team stop doing?
We should stop communicate by email and put in practice a more effective way of virtual communication.
What should the team continue doing?
Keep refactoring the code and find the best solutions for storing data and other concerns.
What are some challenges that the team faced?
No one on the team had previous experience with Android development. We were able to find tutorials that showed us how to do many of the things that we needed to do, but we still faced challenges with that and were surprised by some of the nuances of Android, in particular how images are saved and turned around. We also faced challenges deciding on an effective way to store the images with the associated words, and found that Android phones do indeed use mySQL databases within the phone to store data that can be used by apps. Implementing this data storage method will be challenging.
Another major challenge faced by the team that was fully anticipated, is that we are all busy students. Three of us work nearly full-time besides being students finishing our last semester. Two of us work as programmers most days of the week, and are using the agile process at work, meaning that we already have scrums and sprints to attend to. We do our best to the time that we have budgeted for this class to work on this app.
Evolution of Product Backlog
The Product Backlog did not change.