Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:
What are each of our learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project? Continue to learn about how the different things we have learned about work and fit together. Get better at problem solving using more pseudo coding. Becoming fluent in the git workflow.
What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches? Start with pre-teaching in order to be prepared for when we do meet and practice paired programing, making better use of our time.
How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others? Have some face to face time on zoom. Be straight forward and blunt. Early and often.
How would you describe your work style? Persistant and bordering on obsessive sometimes. Get into the zone and a flow state for longer perods of time, giving us enough time to really dive in.
What are each of our strengths? How can our strengths complement each other? Curious,like to solve problems, optimistic and keep morale high. Keep a cool head when hitting a wall. Handle the frustrtion in a positive way.
What’s gone well or poorly in your previous projects? Tackled the project in a timely manner, became more comfortable with asking and how to ask to help Get better at researching/googling and trusting the learning process, should take more breaks and know when to take a break.
How will we set direction and make decisions as a team? Constant contact/collaboration and try to keep the workload even and fair. Try to keep to deadline and expect the unexpected.
How will we overcome obstacles? Brainstorming apart,together, research, cohort, instructors, mentors.
What do you need (resources, environment, communication) to do your best work Good/quiet workspace, programs(tuple)
What scheduling restraints do you have? What are your scheduling preferences? Not really, try not to work too much or too late.
What is your style for giving feedback? Does anything ever hold you back from giving feedback? Trying not to sound condesending, keep criticsm productive.
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? Like to research, and good at syntax,whoch will keep things organized and clean. Need to improve in combining different aspects togetherSynthyasizing from examples.
What tools do you want to use to manage the project? Tupl, zoom, google, slack, github,screen share, reviewers/ mentors
How do you want the group to solve problems when members run into issues with features of the project? Bring it to the team and communicate to our best what we thinkin is happening. Talk it out.
How do you know if a project is successful? How can we achieve that as a group? When both team members understand all the code and effectivly communicated about it to the team. And we complete the taks given cleanly and effectivly.
How will we recognize each other's successes and celebrate them? Look out for improvement and say it out loud whe we see it. Try to make it clear and loud!
Any additional questions that you would like to add:
Remote Work Considerations During the COVID-19 Quarantine What does remote focus look like for you? (headphones, distractions minimized (tv, family stuff, etc), video on) Noise cancelling headphones, nutrition, video keeps us accountable.
When working from the same place where you live, life can get in the way. What are some potential life things that could affect your ability to focus, and what plan can we come up with to approach those moments? Keep distractions to a minimum, puppy walks and treats
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? Slack on phones, go to friends with internet, or book a Turing Room. 45 mins 5 min break POM
How will hold ourselves accountable? Keep to the timeline, holding each other accountable, keep trying, keep flexible and know when to take a rest
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? Ask each other about things outside the academic material.
Template for DTR Memo Project: ROMCOM
Group Member Names:Alyssa, Max
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?):
Team strengths & collaboration styles (consider discussing your Pairin qualities here):
How we can use our strengths to overcome obstacles:
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):
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?):
Abilities & Growth Expectations (Technical strengths and areas for desired improvement):
Workload Expectations (What features do we each want to work on?):
Workflow Expectations (Git workflow/Tools/Code Review/Reviewing Pull Requests/Debugging and Problem-solving Techniques):
Pomodoro Break Schedule:
Expectations for giving and receiving feedback:
Additional Remote Considerations:
Project management tools we will use (GitHub projects or Trello are popular tools):
Day 1 Agenda:
Additional Notes: