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# Agile & Feedback Reflection Guidelines
In interviews, you'll be asked about how you approach working in projects, and being able to describe how you utilize agile processes is a great way to help you stand out as a junior developer candidate. This reflection is meant to help you develop this skill.
With that in mind, please answer the following questions in your own gist about your group project:
1. What have you learned about the use of agile vs. waterfall in software projects?
- Waterfall is the slowest yet most commonly used in larger tech companies.
- Agile is the most effective, because it allows for quick breakpoints if a project is not worthwhile.
2. How did you and your group approach project management in this project (what tools did you use, how did you hold each other accountable, etc.)?
- We adopted the use of using Github's built in project management tab. I feel like it helped, a little bit. But I can see how with a larger project it would be super effective.
3. What role did you take on in the project?
- I was very flexible as always. I played more of an executioner role (not chopping off heads...).
4. What changes would you make to your approach in future team projects?
- The holidays definitely made this project more challenging, it was hard to work remotely when everyone else was also on break.
- So I would establish certain days to have a conference call just to check progress and restablish the DTR.
5. How does retro function in a team project?
- Retro alows us to look at the progress we've made and help figure out if it could be improved.
6. In your team retro, how did you engage in the feedback process? What principles of feedback did you use in these conversations?
- We had a retro before break and after break, however it was much less formal than we maybe should have had it.
7. How would you describe your ability to communicate feedback? How has this experience affected your communication skills? How do you want to improve in your ability to communicate feedback?
- I never want to upset people and it's hard for me to give feedback.
- So that is definitely something that I would like to improve on.
- Being in a 3 person project made this much more challenging.
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Complete -- good reflection!

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