- Start weekly project meetings
- Start a collaborative doc to take project notes before the tutorial
- Decide on an overall project direction (user profile, problem addressed) before the tutorial
Timely completion of the weekly tP tasks can improve the project management component of your tP grade.
1 Start weekly project meetings
- We recommend you start weekly project meetings now. You can use the meeting to do tP tasks, but also help each other do iP tasks. On a related note, it is also acceptable to discuss weekly post-lecture quiz (if any) together with team members as you do the quiz i.e., discuss and decide the answer collectively, but you should not give away your answers to someone who was not part of that discussion.
2 Start a collaborative doc to take project notes before the tutorial
- Keep project notes in easy-to-use collaborative docs (Recommended: use a GoogleDoc). This document will be checked by the instructors at various points.
Remember to choose a tool that allow public view access e.g., GoogleDoc can be shared via a public link so that the document can be viewed by others. You'll be asked to submit this link to us in the next week.
Make sure all you current and future project notes (if split into in multiple documents) are reachable via links given in this document and are viewable by the public.
3 Decide on an overall project direction (user profile, problem addressed) before the tutorial
- Decide project direction, target user profile, and problem addressed: Use your first project meeting to discuss with your team members and decide your project direction, target user profile, and the value proposition of the product, as described in the panels below:
As we are still at the early stages of identifying a problem to solve, do not think of the product (i.e., the solution) yet. That is, do not discuss the product features, UI, command format, and implementation details, etc. unless they are pertinent to the decision of the project direction.
Pick a CLI-friendly product domain: Given Recommendation-CLI-First and Constraint-Typing-Preferred mentioned in the panels above, it makes sense to pick a product domain that is more suitable for CLI interactions i.e., a product that deals with easy-to-type textual data, needs a small number of data fields, and each data field is short. For example, a blog editor is an unsuitable product domain because it also deals with non-text data (e.g., images, videos) and some data fields are quite long (i.e., paragraphs of text). Similarly, keeping track of extensive employee records may be an unsuitable domain if there are many data fields per employee.
- Submission: Submit your product name, target user profile, the value proposition, and the public link to your collaborative project notes via TEAMMATES. You'll receive an email from TEAMMATES with the submission link. Only one member needs to submit on behalf of the team. All members can view/update the submission.