Use this template to 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.
Guiding Questions to Define The Relationship:
What are your learning goals for this project? What drives us in this project?
- Seperation of class files with seamless integration with DOM
- Working with ES6
- Setting up multiple screen displays
What is your collaboration style? How do you feel about pair programming vs. divide-and-conquer approaches?
- Adjust to tasks as we see fit
- Work through higher level decision together
How do you communicate best? How do you appreciate receiving communication from others?
- Slack for day to day
How would you describe your work style?
- Lucas - laid back, open for discussion and feedback, slow or fast paced
- Matt - Open to slow or fast paced, likes to work in blocks
What are your strengths? How can our strengths complement each other?
Determined to do well, not too picky, leader or listener, looking forward and tackling future concepts, open to go many directions with this project.
What’s gone well or poorly in your previous projects?
- Well - Breaking apart to research a problem at hand, listening to people's time boundaries
- Poorly - Keeping to time boundaries,
How will we set direction and make decisions as a team?
- Communication - Each iteration talk about how we want to move forward, if the direction seems not to work communicate about a new one.
How will we overcome obstacles?
- If we can't figure a concept out, reach out to rocks and peers, mentors, and then instructors.
What do you need (resources, environment, communication) to do your best work?
- Like to work with others, helps keep accountability. Meet in zoom
What scheduling restraints do you have? What are your scheduling preferences?
- Lucas has a shift Friday 4ish to close
- Weekends - 10ish to lunch, afternoons TBD
- Weekdays - Dog stuff / dinner, otherwise open
What is your style for giving feedback? Does anything ever hold you back from giving feedback?
- Up front, no boundaries
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?
- Lucas has personal experience with fitness tech
- Matt likes CSS
What tools do you want to use to manage the project?
- Trello - project management
- Miro - wireframing
- Slack - communication
How do you want the group to solve problems when members run into issues with features of the project?
- If we can't figure a concept out, reach out to rocks and peers, mentors, and then instructors.
How do you know if a project is successful? How can we achieve that as a group?
- Getting 3's and 4's on rubric
- MVP - Iteration 4 completed
How will we recognize each other's successes and celebrate them?
- Positive feedback
- Cheers at end!
Any additional questions that you would like to add:
- No