INFO3600 Capstone Projects Week 4

Overview Where should you be now? What are the pragmatics of getting established? The grading over the next 2 weeks – What – Why Next week’s lecture slots – both of them, for INFO presentations

Where should you be now?

What we expect to see in every Bitbucket site…. First that you have given access to Judy Kay and Katherine Ekanayake

Everyone should have heaps of issues by now With a slew of them resolved already If not, your group health management needs to improve

Overall picture Urgent need to get all the set up solid asap Start making it ready for the group report: eg. For group processes, link to meeting times, contact details, contract, skills, roles

Pragmatics

Special Projects Lab You should have access to Level 1 East If you cannot get access by Wednesday please post a private message on Piazza If you need a special machine set up respond to the Piazza message Similarly anything else special

Week 5, 6 INFO grading

Formative (30%) Foundation for ensuring success Help with the final reports, demo, video (70%)

Group aspects due in Week 5 Literature review presentation

Questions about the presentation Topics – Group decisions and co-ordination Seminal, recent, commercial Summary of overall results – Tables, with work in rows, key features as columns (eg key features matching project, problems identified that project aims to overcome, …) – Key ideas taken for the project (eg elegant algorithm, new functionality to do data mining, good interface ideas) Each person to make contributions Back this up with details on your personal Bitbucket page – (organised/presented so I can review it and combine it with tutor assessment) Be ready to login at lecturn and present Recommended: Bring a printout of your “slides” for me to annotate

Individual report due in Week 5 – though in the lecture I realised that this slide was incorrect and referred to the link below – as well as the slide two below First individual report *

Group report due in Week 6 First group report *

Timing for Week 5 labs 1.COMP first group presentations 2.COMP first group report 3.INFO first individual report Room will do 1, 2, 3 Special lab will do 3, 1, 2

Week 5 lectures Devoted to INFO literature review presentations All welcome PNR 311 at 1, CLT 273 at 2 15 minutes is the limit – you will stop by then but you can stop earlier.

The group presentation How many people have to be involved – everyone How many people need to present? – The grading is silent – So the choice of who presents and who does other parts of the presentation is up to you – Good idea to have one person solely watching the time – And one managing the media (clicking)

First group report Presenting the user stories and associated acceptance tests, engineering tasks and units tests

User stories ++ All the details and evidence you collected along the way and selected from for the presentation (Gives credit even for work that did not pay off in the end)

First individual report All about you showing what you have done, how well you have done it, including both technical and contributions to group health

Workload management and awareness of teamwork Two key dimensions: For your role in your group For your personal reflection and final report on individual contributions

How to link testing to user stories Acceptance tests Negotiate with your client on how they would know that the user story works – This is a start – Especially for key normal cases Forms of testing needed – Code – Usability … user experience … satisfaction Web sites? – Check out

INFO Personal plan, diary, record This is the raw material for the final individual report (Week 13) Does your group contract cover what is needed from the group perspective? All managers and trackers should comment. After each group meeting … steady state 2-3 times per week – Set your high level goals, describing them on your wiki page – Refine them into smaller tasks “issues” link from the wiki to the issue created (see below) – Distinguish Learning tasks eg how to use a new technology Testing tasks eg design a set of acceptance tests, implement them Code production tasks eg implement engineering task – Everything MUST have a demonstrable outcome that will be evidence of the level of success This is an effort But it really pays off – Create (or check) issues in BB, being really careful to classify them appropriately provide clear descriptions, give links to relevant materials – Create links to relevant resources to use

Personal plan, diary, record In preparation for each group meeting – Review all your current tickets and update the workflow or resolve them, ready to refer to BB for your report to your group For your personal wiki page – Reflect on differences between the goals and what was achieved and what you conclude about this and how it affects the group progress and health. This is for your own reflection and report at the end of the semester Did you put priority on the things that the group most needed