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Census DTR

DTR Memo

Project: Rails Engine

Group Member Names:

  • Jasmin Hudacsek
  • Calaway
  • Brian Goss
  • Jesse Spevack

Project Expectations:

What does each group member hope to get out of this project? Goals and expectations: JH

  • Vanilla JavaScript
  • Focus on frontend BG
  • Project manegement and workflow
  • Solidifying JavaScript C
  • JavaScript JS
  • Node
  • One front end framework
  • Java

Schedule Expectations:

When are we available to work together and individually? BG

  • Be here before 8:30, leaves by 5:30

  • Remote available 24/7

  • Committed to one weekend day at Turing, possibly a second if it is needed

  • Leaving for Christmas Break will be in NYC

  • Crystal will be here the week before break

  • Posse - Monday after / Thursday lunch / Friday spike JH

  • Mornings - Golick meets 8:30 - 9:00

  • Okay to stay until 7, can work remote.

  • Willing to work all day Saturday.

  • Holidays will be here.

  • Posse - Con talks, Tuesdays and Thursdays C

  • Arrive at 8:15, leaves at 8:15 at night.

  • This weekend will not be around at all.

  • Going to Salt Lake for Christmas. JS

  • Aim to be at Turing before 8:00, stay until 5 unless planned.

  • Slack all the time

  • Family here over Christmas; Unavailble first weekend

  • Expectiing to got to meetups.

Communication Expectations:

How and often will we communicate? How do we keep lines of communication open?

  • Communicate via Slack (cut off time, 10pm)
  • Using GitHub for technical communication
  • Take code reviews seriously
  • Okay to ping in Slack

Abilities Expectations:

Technical strengths and areas for desired improvement:

  • JH
  • Strengths: Project Management, Git Workflow, Design choices, Server side stuff
  • Desired areas of improvement: Server side JavaScript,
  • C
  • Strengths: Algorithims and problem solving
  • Desired areas of improvement: Subjective design decisions, Git workflow, JavaScript
  • BG
  • Strengths: Algorithims and problem solving
  • Desired areas of improvement: Subjective design decisions, discipline in project management
  • JS
  • Strengths: TDD
  • Desired areas of improvement: Microservices / Architecture, Learning how to learn, SQL

Workflow Expectations:

Git workflow/Tools/Code Review/Reviewing Pull Requests:

  • Start with a branch and push right away - work in progress pull requests [WIP] at the beginning
  • Pivitol Tracker - weighting tasks by time / difficulty
  • Stick to the process
  • Spike branches for diving into something new, but we are not pulling Spike into development
  • Using development staging branch
  • Naming conventions for git branch
  • Likes pair programming
  • Balancing solo coding and pairing to maximize productivity
  • Standups - stick to progress, next steps, blockers

Tools:

  • VIM - BG
  • RSPEC
  • Factory Girl
  • JSON Serializers

Expectations for giving and receiving feedback:

  • BG - I love it, please do it
  • JH - Actionable and specific; Working on finishing technical explanation, so would appreciate not getting cut off
  • C - Enjoy all the feedback
  • JS - Wants feedback, wants to be direct.
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