Agile Practices Lab

Why is this important?

This lab is important because:

Well-planned projects are easier to implment. By spending some time working on how you'll work through a project you can often finish a project easier.

What are the objectives

After this workshop, developers should have

• Completed cards outlining the user stories to complete their project
• Completed wireframe of their project.
• Prioritized stories for their project.
• Created a README to help outline the technical aspects of their project.

User Stories

Sign up for Trello

1. Go to www.trello.com.
2. Click Get Started.
3. Enter in a username, email, and password.
4. Click create a new board.
5. Make the board public by clicking on the lock icon to the right of the title.

Write at least 5 user stories

Creating a kanban Trello board.

1. Click on the Add a list field.
2. Enter "To Do"
3. Add another list for "Doing" and "Done"
4. Click Add a card in the "To Do" list
5. Enter your first story in an As a <User> I would like to <feature> in order to <purpose> format.
6. Add a checklist to the story by clicking the pencil icon and then the checklist button
7. Add any specific task to the list like creating a button in HTML or adding an event listener.
8. Give the story a number of points by using a label.

Take 15 minutes and create at least 5 user stories for your project. Remember that smaller stories are better in general than more complicated stories.

Don't worry about order yet, just about defining the features you plan to work on. Also feel free to include stretch goals in the stories as well. Also don't worry about getting the perfect size, rough sizes are what we're looking for at this point.

Tips: You can reorder your lists by dragging and dropping individual cards.

Take a few minutes to review your partner's user story list. Do the stories make sense? Do the stories describe features or just technical tasks?

Take a few minutes to discuss with your partner any feedback on their user stories.

Wireframes

Take 10 minutes to sketch out a simple wireframe of your app. Remember, it doesn't matter how good the wireframe looks. It matters that it catches all the major relevant features. You can draw your wireframe on paper, on the whiteboard, or use a wireframing tool mentioned in the previous lesson.

Take a few minutes to review your wireframe. Does every button or input map to a user story? Do you need to add new stories?

Prioritize Stories

Take a few minutes to prioritize your stories. If you added a new story based on your wireframes just make sure at least your title is included on a story card. Put the first story you plan to work on top of the list and then the next story you plan to do under it.

Keeping Track

1. Create a Github repo for your project
2. Create a README file for your repo. (The GitHub webpage allows you to use a GUI to create one.)
3. Add a link to your Trello board in the README
4. Add a picture of your Wireframe to your README

Wrap-up

Project organizaton is often one of the key ways software organization can become more efficent. Learning how to think in common agile processes helps prepare you to work on teams in the future.

Licensing

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