Compiled Learning Objectives

At the end of the sprint, you should be able to do the following things. Make sure to check you can do them all, and if not, go back and keep practicing until you can.

Goal setting and planning

• Identify the Portfolio module goals
• Create a set of SMART employment goals
• Identify your weekly activities and availability

Ground rules

• Establish the rules for getting a new project off the ground

Bad Interview Answers

• Wake up and make ourselves laugh

Goal of the Portfolio Module

• Reflect on the Portfolio Module criteria

Reviewing and improving goals

• Share your SMART goals and Weekly Activity spreadsheet
• Review your peers’ goals and give feedback
• Identify challenges to achieving the shared goals
• Develop a strategy for overcoming those challenges

Understanding Requirements

• Identify described requirements
• Identify extra requirements from your own experience
• Resolve trade-offs in conflicting requirements
• Translate requirements into high-level design outlines

User stories

• Identify described requirements
• Identify extra requirements from your own experience
• Resolve trade-offs in conflicting requirements
• Translate requirements into high-level design outlines

Gathering requirements

• Choose a project brief
• Identify and explain the key user stories for your project

User Interface

• Identify key features for the user interface
• Propose basic designs for key parts of the user interface
• Write objectives you can measure

Data

• Identify core components required to supply data and functionality to the user interface

Break it down

• Propose acceptance criteria for a given user story
• Set up a project board
• Write up user story as issues
• Generate acceptance criteria for user issues

Prep the work for the week

• Create a clear plan for teamwork