Since the last sprint retrospective, we have all finally begun to get an idea of the actual work that we are going to be doing. From the videos that were sent to us that we watched, it seems to be the case that we are going to be implementing some front end components like HTML forms and buttons using angular and javascript or typescript. Even with this in mind, though, we still have not begun writing any actual code yet. We are still in the stage of figuring out how to start on this project. Part of what was described in the videos included what appears to be an already functioning template of buttons and components that interact with the page but have no backend functionality, so my assumption is that we are expected to take this design and program the buttons to read the forms and pass the information to some function that sends it to a database. I am anticipating that we are going to need to read some of the existing ng2-amrs code so that we can have the frontend invoke the right functions written on the backend. This is all in my imagination, though; we are still not certain enough to know that that is what we are going to be doing. After trying to access the wireframe designs from the videos, they do not seem to exist in HTML – they are possibly just a graphical simulation of how they should interact. If this is the case then our work will begin first with building the pages and placing all of the components on them how they appear in the wireframe.
I think things would be moving more quickly if all of the groups were communicating more about what everyone plans on doing, since everything is going to need to be divided among the groups, and then within our group we will need to divide tasks further among ourselves. Firstly, though, we need to understand the goals better in order to be able to come up with smaller tasks to break them into so that we can work on separate pieces of it individually, then bring it together as a group, and then bring each group’s contributions together to complete the project. Progress in this regard seems to be happening very slowly. We have a vague idea of what needs to be done and we do not know what comes next, so until a lot more detail is figured out, there is only one thing to do, and that is to clarify what needs to be done and come up with some more things to do so that the work can be performed in parallel by multiple teammates.
At this point it seems like the groups have decided on one particular thing to focus on, and our group is focusing on one particular component of one page of a wireframe made in Zepplin that was demonstrated in the first video. We do not know what we are doing, but we are making progress.
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