EECS 497 Kickoff

• About this course: 15 minutes
• Team data collection: 15 minutes
• Start working! 20 minutes

• Prototype vs Mockup: what's the difference?
• How rapid is rapid?
  

Team practices to un-learn:

• Work on the parts you know best.
• Divide up the work to get the most done.
• Have many things in progress.
• Assign everyone tasks at the start of each week.
• Plan for a big push at the end.

Development practices to un-learn:

• Get all your requirements first.
• Build a solid back-end first.
• Mock up and test your front-end first.
• Implement first what users do first.
• Measure progress by code finished.

• Build / Reflect / Improve / Repeat
• Learn by doing, not listening to lectures
• Class is for discussion, setting goals, doing work
  • Attendance is critical
• Your key resources:
  • The course web site
  • the web

• I assess teams on their ability to
  • deliver quality product predictably
  • function as a cohesive high morale unit
  • improve constantly through retrospection
• I assess individuals on their ability to
  • grow technically
  • contribute to team growth
  • improve constantly through retrospection

• Do the skill survey (5 minutes)
• Add your github id to the developer spreadsheet
• Look for recent (2017 or later) React tutorials with interesting apps, using a persistent data store
  • Not React Native
• Start working on the tutorial
  • setting up your React environment
  • brainstorming what would be neat to add to the tutorial app
  • does not have to be in the 497 repository