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2021-08-31: Effective Team Communications and Domain Analysis

Administrative

Groups are assigned! That’s cool.

Effective Team Communications

Let’s talk about Key Stakeholders:

The non-key stakeholders get no attention :(

A stakeholder has some interest in the outcome of the project.

What is a Standup?

It’s a short dev team meeting. Each person should answer three questions:

• What did I do yesterday?
• What will I do today?
• Any blockers?

Things that can go wrong:

• A non-team-member is running the meeting
• The meeting runs too long
• People digress on technical issues
• People try to solve the blockers
• People try to debate alternative solutions

Manager Expectations

Prof, aka the manager, wants to see some things:

• Accountability for each team member via:
  • Trello cards
  • Git commits
  • Slack activity

Show off!

DOMAIN EXPANSION ANALYSIS

The Domain is the context in which software operates. What problem are we working in?

This could also be called “The Application Domain”

The Domain Model describes the world in which the system’s users and experts exist. A Domain might have:

• Domain entities
• Domain Language
• Relationships between entities

A domain model establishes a common understanding of the problem. It uses vocabulary from the problem statement.

Look for the nouns - what do the experts call them? Then, take a gander at the relationships between these “things”.

A domain model looks like an entity-relationship-diagram from database, but it’s a little less formal. It could just be two boxes with an arrow and a label: “An address describes where a customer is”.

Sprint Zero

It is begun. Take a look at:

• The vision document

Do some things:

• Team icebreaker activity
• Create a team contract
• Create a team slack channel

Also on the list:

• Create a trello group
  • Invite prof
  • Import prof’s pre-made cards
  • flesh ‘em out

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