Lecture 23

Lecture 23, Thu 05/19

Thu Lecture: PeerEval2, Retro2, Team03 grading

Today’s class

https://catme.org Use your cgaucho@ucsb.edu email address to login (NOT cgaucho@umail.ucsb.edu).
Deadline midnight this coming Tuesday
Please do it sooner if you can (it will avoid the spam reminding you every 24 hours, or more often as the deadline approaches.)

Note that your team is not finished with team03 on the slack channel
Do a standup, including both an out loud standup, and posting standup updates on the slack channel
Coordinate among the team members when you’ll do your retro outside of class time, and post on the slack channel when you’ve agreed to do that. Deadline is midnight Wednesday 05/25.
Spend rest of class time working on team03 until finished
If you finish during class, if there’s at least 30 minutes left after you submit on Gauchospace, you can do your retro.
Otherwise, just move on to getting it graded, or watching the team03b videos.

Reminder of things to include in your standup update

Optional:

Retro Instructions

The core principle of Agile is “inspect and adapt”.

It was “inspecting and adapting” that led the original authors of the Agile Manifesto to their ideas.
It has been by “inspecting and adapting” that the Agile philosophy continues to grow and develop.

Inspect and Adapt is, in many ways, linked to the Scientific Method;

All in the service of doing a better job of software development.

In a retro, the team stops, pauses, reflects, and most importantly comes up with an actionable change for their practice.

Start by having everyone take 5 minutes to read through this article: https://ucsb-cs156.github.io/topics/agile_retros/
- Really read it! It has the instructions for the most important activity in today’s class
Next, choose a leader for your retro. It should be someone that has read the instructions and is comfortable leading the group.
Then, locate the Google Drive folder for your team. It should be linked in your Slack channel with a gdrive link this:

Earlier, you should have created a folder called Retros and in that folder, create a document Retro1.

Now create a new document in that folder called Retro2

Then follow the instructions in the https://ucsb-cs156.github.io/topics/agile_retros/ article for Stop/Start/Continue retro, with one difference:

As part of your discussion, revisit the experiment from your previous retro
Discuss: was it a success?
- Did we follow through on the change we said we would make?
- Did we get the results we were expecting?
- What, if anything, did we learn from this experiment?

In the document, write down who your retro leader is.

At the end of the process, you should have in your document:

Name of person leading the retro at the top, and a list of who participated
A document with three parts, “stop/start/continue”, and items from each member under the three categories
Dot voting (three votes per team member participating) on the items in the document.
A summary of the discussion about the previous experiment:
- Did we follow through on the change we said we would make?
- Did we get the results we were expecting?
- What, if anything, did we learn from this experiment?
A summary at the bottom on a new “experiment” in the form “If we change X we hope to see Y result”
- This should be related to one of the top three items by votes that your group agreed on.
A brief explanation of how you will know whether your experiment was or was not a success.

After the retro is done, you can:

Ask a staff member to look over your GDrive document; they’ll check it to make sure it has the required elements:
- items from each member under start/stop/continue
- dot voting
- discusion of previous experiment
- a new experiment, including the criteria by which you can know whether the experiment was a success

About Team03b (description, and videos)

In team03b, we’ll see the rest of the steps for crud operations in React: the missing steps being adding Create and Update.

Note that team03b may take various forms; I’m still working out with the staff when we’ll be ready to start the legacy code projects.

At one end of the spectrum, it might not be an assignment at all, but instead, just a set of reference videos you can look at if you need the skills mentioned in them.
At the other end, it might be a full blown assignment, with every team member implementing the missing operations (Create, Edit) for their database record, on top of team03.
It might be somewhere in between.

I’ll let you know by Tuesday’s lecture. In the meantime, here are the videos.