Use this template when conducting DTR with your project partners. It's recommended that you copy/paste this template into your own gist each time you conduct a DTR to take notes on the conversation.
- What are each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?
- What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?
- How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?
- How would you describe your work style?
- What are each of our strengths? How can our strengths complement each other?
- What’s gone well or poorly in your previous projects?
- How will we set direction and make decisions as a team?
- How will we overcome obstacles?
- What do you need (resources, environment, communication) to do your best work?
- What scheduling restraints do you have? What are your scheduling preferences?
- What is your style for giving feedback? Does anything ever hold you back from giving feedback?
- What do you identify as being your biggest strength(s) technically, as they relate to this project? Where do you feel you could use improvement in your technical skills, as they relate to this project? How can our team help support you in improving these skills?
- What tools do you want to use to manage the project?
- How do you want the group to solve problems when members run into issues with features of the project?
- How do you know if a project is successful? How can we achieve that as a group?
- How will we recognize each other's successes and celebrate them?
Any additional questions that you would like to add:
- What does remote focus look like for you? (headphones, distractions minimized (tv, family stuff, etc), video on)
- When working from the same place where you live, life can get in the way. What are some potential life things that could interfere with your ability to focus, and what plan can we come up with to approach those issues? (Examples: my kids, my dog, my partner, etc.)
- If we encounter issues such as power outages, Zoom difficulties, or bad wifi, what backup plans can we have in place? (This could have answers like asking a neighbor to borrow wifi, using cellphone hotspot for internet, switching to slack or skype.
- Pomodoro breaks are especially important for remote work and doubly so for quarantine. What should our Pom cadence look like? How will hold ourselves accountable?
- Quarantine is tough, so it’s important to make note of our mental/emotional state when working with others. How can we make space to check in on each other’s well being, in addition to the work that needs to be done?
Project: Paired RomComs
Group Member Names: Ben MC and Joe V
Goals and Expectations for the Project (What does each group member hope to get out of this project? What do we want to achieve as a team? How will we know that we're successful?):
Our minimum goal that we desire to reach is finishing with understanding iteration 2, and our stretch goal is a full completion of iteration 3.
Abstract goals: Understand how HTML and CSS interact with each other. Defining Project Timelines: What we are doing now Utilizing each team member's individual strengths
Team strengths & collaboration styles (consider discussing your Pairin qualities here):
Joe is creative and can solve a problem without overthinking it most of the time, tending to be more succinct. Ben has good teamwork skills and learns quickly, able to find new solutions to unknown problems.
How we can use our strengths to overcome obstacles:
We have a good balance, with Ben having a little more technical skills and Joe having a little more project management skills.
Schedule Expectations (When are we available to work together and individually? What constraints do we have? Make sure to discuss the remote questions above in regards to this section):
Family time for each of us will be 5-8 p.m. every day. Ben cannot do Sunday mornings. We will stop screen work at 11 p.m. every night to give us some sleep.
Communication Expectations (How and often will we communicate? How do we keep lines of communication open? How will we make decisions as a team? How will we communicate about our emotional and mental well-being with each other?):
Set up Trello. Communicate mainly over Slack. Text for emergencies. We will make decisions as a team together.
Abilities & Growth Expectations (Technical strengths and areas for desired improvement):
Ben: Keeping style consistent, slowing down and watching details, pseudocoding. Joe: Consistent style, asking for help when needed, keeping track of project difficulty.
Both want to familiarize ourselves with Slack, Zoom, and Tuple resources.
Workload Expectations (What features do we each want to work on?):
Trello will help us break down the workflow.
Workflow Expectations (Git workflow/Tools/Code Review/Reviewing Pull Requests/Debugging and Problem-solving Techniques):
We will need to learn this together.
Pomodoro Break Schedule:
We are committing to 30-35 minutes poms with 5-10 minutes breaks.
Expectations for giving and receiving feedback:
We going to be empathetic and patient with each other and pay attention to our stress and emotions.
Additional Remote Considerations:
Project management tools we will use (GitHub projects or Trello are popular tools):
We will use Trello mainly and see how we do for the first few days.
We are planning on using Trello for our workflow.
Day 1 Agenda:
Additional Notes: