Category Archives: Sprint 2

Sprint 2 Retrospective

Links:

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/40

This was for designing how the database would look and the schemas for all the different fields required.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/30

This was for the implementation part of the reporting database that I designed.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/26

This was for reviewing css and html using tutorials online.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/23

I worked on designing the API for some of the backend endpoints by playing around with swagger.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/80

We worked on creating an open api yaml file that will be used in the next part of the sprint.

The thing that worked well in this sprint for our group, the reporting system, was that before we started the sprint we were able to break down more efficiently what everyone’s role would be. For this sprint we added one more person, and they were responsible for their iam system and each of us had our roles. However, this time I was able to work separately on my issues and then meet with them team for issues that are related to the whole team and how we can help each other out. A lot of the database stuff I was working on was related to the backend aspect, so I worked on that with the other teammate who was assigned the backend role.

Some things that didn’t work well was that we had problems with some of the things we were supposed to do with the report. It was unclear in the beginning what aspects would go in the report and which teams would be sending what. So for this sprint there was a lot of meetings to figure out more of the aspects of the report and not as much as being able to implement the features required.

A few changes we could have made as a team for future sprints are to have the meetings with other teams or product owner about the specifics earlier on in the sprint. This way we can focus on creating the different schemas and backend as well as frontend implementations that are required for the overall pantry and not be stuck on the details. With this procedure, we can get more work done and if there is any confusion we can meet and clear it up after we have done some more implementations on our parts.

Changes I can make as an individual to improve the sprint is to figure out all the details of my role first, then start working. There is not point in getting confused on what to do and start working without a clear grasp. This is where I can work with my team more and ask more questions about a certain issue I have. Instead of working independently on all my tasks, I can ask my team for certain things that there are issues on.

Overall, I think the second sprint was really helpful managing confusion with the project and sorting it out to a solution by meeting with the team and others. I think we helped each other out with the details by meeting with other teams and the product owner who had more details about the product we were supposed to make. I think it was a good learning experience and successful sprint and I am looking forward to the next sprint.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Roller Coaster Coding Journey by fbaig34 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint 2 Retrospective

 Links to evidence of activity on GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/generatewcfbreportfrontend

I created a new generate WCFB report frontend which I used the sample frontend example from the professor. I have already had a basic model for the Frontend. I need to do more to connect the backend API, which can let customers download the report for the inventory.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/23

I designed the API for backend endpoints.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/34

I met with Marcos and Matt and talked about the difference between each group’s FrontEnd design. For the next sprint, we will be having more meetings to help each other out on the API.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/35

I looked for WSU visual standards to use for the frontends.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/61

As a team, we created a Docker_compose file for the Integration of all systems.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/67

I implemented FrontEnd for Reporting with the most recent version

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/55

I am stilling mak OpenAPI.yaml fileReflection on what worked well?

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/71

As a team, we are looking at the new architecture and plan accordingly.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/66

As a team, we are looking over TheasPantryReport.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/20

I am researching Kubernetes with Migena.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/22

We are reviewing Scrum issue boards

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/12

We are reviewing LibreFoodPantry Architecture and technologies used.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/58

I am creating a simple frontend to test keycloack with Migena.

Reflection on what worked well?

In terms of what worked well, team members are working together more efficiently to complete the project plan through the first phase of working together than ever before. After a teamwork period, we have a deeper understanding of our mission goals and become more accustomed to each other’s habits. There will be a relaxed working atmosphere, and the chemistry between the groups will encourage each other to move the project forward.

Reflection on what didn’t work well?

As for why it didn’t work out, there was some confusion about the final product as to the project’s future goals. When faced with unknown challenges, we are still a little confused. As we communicated with the professor, we had some clear goals. Because the front end and the back end are related, taking charge of every task affects productivity. So we have overlapping project leaders working together to get the job done, which improves efficiency. The mission was complex and challenging, but we encouraged each other through the ZOOM meetings after class.

Reflection on what changes could be made to improve as a team?

As a team with cooperation, smooth communication, and tacit understanding among team members are the basis and key to improving our team’s cooperation level. We would discuss the project after class and give some constructive suggestions about each other’s tasks. Good communication makes our team have chemistry. Through communication and cooperation, we have a thorough understanding of the team members’ tasks. Each knew the other’s project progress would be conducive to the overall advancement of the project. When a team member encounters a bottleneck in a task, we will appropriately slow down the overall progress and communicate with him to buffer his time to complete and push forward the overall task progress.

Reflection on what changes could be made to improve as an individual?

As an individual, I need to improve my understanding of the Frontend more quickly to help my team better connect Frontend and backend. I need to arrange my group tasks more reasonably to help promote the whole group project’s completion. Besides, I also need to make clear my work objectives, continue to follow up on the team’s project, and make my part and the whole develop simultaneously. 

From the blog haorusong by Unknown and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint 2 Retrospective

 Links to evidence of activity on GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/generatewcfbreportfrontend

I created a new generate WCFB report frontend which I used the sample frontend example from the professor. I have already had a basic model for the frontend, the one I need to do more is to connect the backend API which can let customers download the report for the inventory.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/23

I designed the API for backend endpoints.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/34

I met with Marcos and Matt and talked about the difference between each group’s FrontEnd design. Also, for the next sprint, we will be having more meetings to help each other out on the API.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/35

I looked for WSU visual standards to use for the frontends.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/61

As a team, we created a Docker_compose file for the Integration of all systems.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/67

I implemented FrontEnd for Reporting with the most recent version

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/55

I am stilling mak OpenAPI.yaml fileReflection on what worked well?

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/71

As a team, we are looking at the new architecture and plan accordingly.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/66

As a team, we are looking over TheasPantryReport.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/20

I am researching Kubernetes with Migena.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/22

We are reviewing Scrum issue boards

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/12
We are reviewing LibreFoodPantry Architecture and technologies used.
https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/58
I am creating a simple frontend to test keycloack with Migena.
Reflection on what worked well?

In terms of what worked well, through the first phase of working together, team members are working together more efficiently to complete the project plan than ever before. After a period of teamwork, we have a deeper understanding of our mission goals and become more accustomed to each other’s habits. There will be a relaxed working atmosphere and the chemistry between the groups will encourage each other to move the project forward.

Reflection on what didn’t work well?

As for why it didn’t work out, there was some confusion about the final product as to the future goals of the project. When faced with unknown challenges, we are still a little confused. As we communicated with the professor, we had some clear goals. Because the front end and the back end are related. Taking charge of every task affects productivity. So we have overlapping project leaders working together to get the job done, which improves efficiency. The task was difficult and challenging, but we encouraged each other through the ZOOM meetings after class.

Reflection on what changes could be made to improve as a team?

As a team with cooperation experience, smooth communication, and tacit understanding among team members are the basis and key to improving our team’s cooperation level. We would discuss the project after class and give some constructive suggestions about each other’s tasks. Good communication makes our team have chemistry. Through communication and cooperation, we have a thorough understanding of the team members’ tasks. Each knew the other’s project progress would be conducive to the overall advancement of the project. When a team member encounters a bottleneck in a task, we will appropriately slow down the overall progress and communicate with him to buffer his time to complete and push forward the overall task progress together.

Reflection on what changes could be made to improve as an individual?

As an individual, I need to improve my understanding of the Frontend more quickly to help my team better connect Frontend and backend. I need to arrange my group tasks more reasonably to help promote the whole group project’s completion. Besides, I also need to make clear my work objectives, continue to follow up on the team’s project, and make my part and the whole develop simultaneously. 

From the blog haorusong by and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint 2 Retrospective

 Links to evidence of activity on GitLab.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/generatewcfbreportfrontend

I created a new generate WCFB report frontend which I used the sample frontend example from the professor. I have already had a basic model for the Frontend. I need to do more to connect the backend API, which can let customers download the report for the inventory.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/23

I designed the API for backend endpoints.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/34

I met with Marcos and Matt and talked about the difference between each group’s FrontEnd design. For the next sprint, we will be having more meetings to help each other out on the API.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/35

I looked for WSU visual standards to use for the frontends.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/61

As a team, we created a Docker_compose file for the Integration of all systems.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/67

I implemented FrontEnd for Reporting with the most recent version

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/55

I am stilling mak OpenAPI.yaml fileReflection on what worked well?

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/71

As a team, we are looking at the new architecture and plan accordingly.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/66

As a team, we are looking over TheasPantryReport.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/20

I am researching Kubernetes with Migena.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/22

We are reviewing Scrum issue boards

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/12

We are reviewing LibreFoodPantry Architecture and technologies used.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/community/-/issues/58

I am creating a simple frontend to test keycloack with Migena.

Reflection on what worked well?

In terms of what worked well, team members are working together more efficiently to complete the project plan through the first phase of working together than ever before. After a teamwork period, we have a deeper understanding of our mission goals and become more accustomed to each other’s habits. There will be a relaxed working atmosphere, and the chemistry between the groups will encourage each other to move the project forward.

Reflection on what didn’t work well?

As for why it didn’t work out, there was some confusion about the final product as to the project’s future goals. When faced with unknown challenges, we are still a little confused. As we communicated with the professor, we had some clear goals. Because the front end and the back end are related, taking charge of every task affects productivity. So we have overlapping project leaders working together to get the job done, which improves efficiency. The mission was complex and challenging, but we encouraged each other through the ZOOM meetings after class.

Reflection on what changes could be made to improve as a team?

As a team with cooperation, smooth communication, and tacit understanding among team members are the basis and key to improving our team’s cooperation level. We would discuss the project after class and give some constructive suggestions about each other’s tasks. Good communication makes our team have chemistry. Through communication and cooperation, we have a thorough understanding of the team members’ tasks. Each knew the other’s project progress would be conducive to the overall advancement of the project. When a team member encounters a bottleneck in a task, we will appropriately slow down the overall progress and communicate with him to buffer his time to complete and push forward the overall task progress.

Reflection on what changes could be made to improve as an individual?

As an individual, I need to improve my understanding of the Frontend more quickly to help my team better connect Frontend and backend. I need to arrange my group tasks more reasonably to help promote the whole group project’s completion. Besides, I also need to make clear my work objectives, continue to follow up on the team’s project, and make my part and the whole develop simultaneously. 

From the blog haorusong by Unknown and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint 2 Retrospective

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem

Here is the Link to the repositories that contains everything we worked on Sprint-2. Backend, Frontend, Event system, and Keycloak.

RabbitMQ Docker container:  Created a Docker container for Reporting Team

Learn how to get messages from Queue:  Learned How to send and receive messages using JSON object

Meeting with other Event System Team:  Met with the other teams to discuss the format and schema

Review CSS and HTML:  Reviewed CSS and HTML for the Frontend design.

Work with Backend/Database for MQ: Worked with Database and Backend to figure out the Receive file.

For the Sprint, I worked mostly on the Event System components with the Backend person. We figured out how to properly send and receive messages using the JSON object.

What worked well / did not work well

For the Sprint, I worked mostly on the Event System components with the Backend person. We figured out how to properly send and receive messages using the JSON object. I noticed that working together with the team has improved our work productivity significantly and working together helped us to solve problems as a team. For this Sprint there were still a lot of confusing elements. Especially, we had a hard time understanding how the report worked and what the data was involved in the report. Also, the issue description on Gitlab was not precise enough or was not broken down into steps. We were lost in some aspects and did not know what questions to ask. However, it is almost the end of the semester and everyone is busy with exams and project from other classes

What changes could be made to improve as a team?

As a team, we should be communicating more with each other and the professor whenever there is confusion or questions regarding the materials. Also, breaking down the task into small issues will help the team tackle problems one by one. I think it will be great for our team to talk with the other group for example all the FrontEnd people can meet and talk more about the issues and problems they are facing. The same goes for the backend, this will help improve as a team. We also need to add more info to the cards which solve the issue of any confusion regarding who is doing what task.

 What changes could be made to improve as an Individual?

As an Individual, I should be talking with my team more rather than just doing the issues that are assigned to me. If I am struggling with something, then I should ask my teammate or the professor for help rather than just waiting and trying to figure out myself. Since it towards the end of the semester and since every class, I have a project, I should be planning or a schedule to work on individual tasks rather than doing everything at once.

Overall, this was a great learning experience. I think the second sprint was a success and we got a lot of working parts done for the project. I’m looking forward to seeing what the reporting team will accomplish towards the end of the semester.

From the blog Derin's CS Journey by and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint Retrospective II – Reporting System

I am part of Reporting System group in this project and my job is to support and secure other system through keycloak. It is a 5-person team, and my part in this group is to implement a third-party system (KeyCloak), deploying the system (using docker) and help other system by embedding in their teams. Also help with other team tasks other than IAM system.

What I think that worked well in this sprint was that we were clear on what to read and what to look for. We understood the instructions and started the work that we thought it would be useful for us to know and learn. I was able to make some progress and secure the frontend of the system. Created a realm for the reporting team and added their users. This link is a good source for anyone who is new to Keycloak and wants to know how it works. There is information for everything you might need with keycloak.

https://www.keycloak.org/documentation

Again, like last sprint something that I would say it didn’t work well it was the amount of information we had to learn and go through. Because this is a project that is new to everyone, we were kind of lost in the beginning until we selected what worked for us and what not. It is risky when you are introduced with a new tool and you get lost in the sea of information. Again, overthinking some basic stuff that didn’t need a lot of time spending on it continued in this sprint too.

I think in this team I feel comfortable and able to communicate openly with my teammates. Most of the time we spent it working individually or in groups of 2-3. The examples that were provided to us for frontend and backend has helped us a lot in this second sprint. Also, when we assigned issues, we could have left it unsigned, as long as, all issues were done by the end of the sprint.

As an individual what I could have changed is helping my team more in other issues too and discuss the problems with my team.

In this second sprint we had enough issues for a team of 5 people. Most of the issues were about building frontend, backend, and figure it out how to make the reporting system work. Issues were mostly individual but also, we had ones that we developed in group. I was assigned to creating a docker container for keycloack and securing the example frontend through keycloack. I was able to finish both issues with success and the one that were in group too. Created a project file with all my documentation in GitLab with steps I followed, to complete the work I was assigned for.

We all wrote our descriptions on the issues, what we learned and how we are going to use it in the future. The link is provided in GitLab so anyone who comes after us or want to check on what we did, can use it, and help the others too.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/reportingsystem/keycloak-configuartion

Read the readme.md file in the project to follow the instructions. Overall, this sprint was better than the first one and we got result. If the first one was trying to understand what was happening, this second sprint was more hands on the deck sprint, with real result and projects running.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Tech, Guaranteed by mshkurti and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint Retrospective 2

Hello,

welcome back.

  In todays blog post I will be writing about my second sprint developing part of my universities food pantry website. My team recently finished the second sprint, during which we focused on developing basic skeleton code with basic functionality in place for future development. I and another teammate worked on the front-end development of the project while one classmate worked on the backend and another person worked on the IAM (Identity and Access Management) Communication among our group occurred mainly through GitLab and discord. At the beginning of the sprint, we mainly had documentation on the concepts we were to begin using and now we have progressed to having multiple branches of skeleton code developed.

During the first sprint, I had begun researching REST API and OPEN API with intentions on developing that area of the project. However, due to personal health reasons I was unavailable for slightly over two weeks and was not sure if a return to the project was possible. Due to these unforeseen setbacks, my team had to switch up task assignment. When I returned, another teammate was tasked with taking on the API design, which meant I was to take on the checkout guest front-end. This set me back even further than anticipated because now I had to switch to doing a completely different part of the development process. I began researching and completing tutorials on Vue.js which ended up being quite a bit to take on whilst trying to develop something presentable with Vue.js for the first time. I learned quite a bit and am happy with the progress I made as a student. I take pride in the development of the Checkout Guest front end thus far. It is linked below under the updatedFunctionality branch:

CheckoutGuest

For the second sprint, our team faced the challenge of applying the knowledge/concepts we gained earlier studying Express, Vue and keycloak and applying it. I was uncertain of how to approach the input validation of the student ID field but ended up modifying some code for an input field. I specifically spent some time verifying that the submit button was disabled unless an input of seven digits was entered. I assumed we would work with the WSU pattern of blue and yellow and designed in this way though I was uncertain of specific design layout and appearance that other teams planned to develop. A member of my team had contacted other teams with questions regarding appearance and then refactored according to the newly acquired information. A small hiccup with practical application is to be expected when developing with new frameworks but I still think we worked well despite the initial chaos of using these new frameworks, especially the combination of multiple frameworks.

To improve as a team, we should become more comfortable and fluid working with these new concepts and frameworks by continually practicing them daily in small increments rather than in large infrequent bursts of use. This would help to solidify these new concepts in our minds and keep them fresh. To improve as an individual, I would benefit from checking GitLab daily rather than a few times a week. This will help me to stay more on top of how the other members of my team are progressing and coordinate with them on challenges or setbacks either of us face before they become a major setback.

Overall, our team is doing quite well despite the setbacks. I am grateful to have the opportunity to work with such excellent developers who have great communication skills, are not afraid to ask questions. We work well as a team, and my teammates have been very cordial with any questions or comments about the design process outside of class hours. As someone who grew up dependent on food pantries like this one, I am honored to be able to dedicate my time to the development of this project.

Thanks for taking the time to stop by.

  • John Simolaris

From the blog cs@worcester – Coding_Kitchen by jsimolaris and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint 2 Retrospective Blog Post

This second sprint has been a bit better in terms of actionable steps; this was aided greatly by the mock front and back end. The mock allowed us to test configuring a realm to a container locally which was the floor for proof of concept. Unfortunately, the lack of architecture made further progress confusing as I didn’t understand why all images couldn’t be on same container network. After it was determined that the architecture called for further subdivision, it became unclear what microservices should be on which image and/or network. For instance, it was more or less determined that Keycloak should be on its own separate container (presumably with WildFly) but at the beginning of sprint I wrongly believed, based on previous internet searches, that NGINX should be on the same image as Keycloak but this was later discovered to be unnecessary as the mock front end contains NGINX within our system.

On that same note, the task breakdown and codification into issues for the respective boards suffers from an incongruity where ignorance of the matter begets ignorance in the approach and then future work is inaccurately reflected in the process. This isn’t necessarily an issue with the approach as whole but it seems as though, for the past two sprints, this unfamiliarity with the microservices and their implementation into our architecture forced me into a series of micro pivots which quickly evanesced away from the originally declared issues. If the goal of scrum is not to constantly be inundated with creating issue cards, updating them, and closing the now obsolete ones, then perhaps it would behoove us to reconsider the amount of research time necessary or have a much more closely-guided approach to issue construction. If this rapid pivoting away from cards is acceptable (and their grades reflect this) then that’s not particularly bad news for students. However, we have to be honest with ourselves and have the hard conversation that Scrum in this setting does not accurately map to what Behr, et al. would refer to as WIP (work in progress).

The low-hanging fruit of constructive team feedback would be the necessity of more frequent external meetings. It certainly was not for lack of trying; the most charitable reading of the situation was that I found there to be no strong consensus on when the team schedules would align. We also would have benefited from more frequent contact internally. Barring all real-world, unforeseen, obligations that took team members away from us the scattering of the team into groups caused our reviews to be staggered resulting in the loss of two full class periods of collaboration. My prescription for this would be that those who come after us should successfully drill down on establishing a running prototype before splitting off into the other groups.

My individual criticisms to my work flow largely still touch on the externalities I’ve lamented in a prior blog post but, if I must touch on them briefly, they’ve stayed mostly the same. It’s quite apparent that certain teaching staff in the university have struggled to pivot to remote teaching and, if I’m to attribute to ignorance and not malice, they seem to have bequeathed those struggles to their students. To those teachers I would like to remind them that Monday holidays are not a surprise and certainly not an invitation to delegate away your teaching responsibilities because you’re lagging behind curriculum milestones. If these teachers cannot grade in a timely manner, then my deepest sympathies, but please do not complain that the bulk of your students keep getting concepts incorrect and you have to re-grade their assignments and/or assign extra credit to help inflate grades. I’m a commuter student with one semester until graduation so I will stay here at Worcester State; if I was a commuter student with two semesters left, I would have transferred out.

https://gitlab.com/nanuchi/techworld-js-docker-demo-app
When paired with their “Docker Tutorial For Beginners” has been an invaluable resource to teach myself Docker and use continuously as a reference.

From the blog CS@Worcester – Cameron Boyle's Computer Science Blog by cboylecsblog and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.

Sprint #2 Retrospective Blog Post

The second sprint of the semester started a bit rough for me with my surgery, but I was able to get most (if not all) of my work done throughout the weeks we worked. I was able to help a lot with creating the cards and giving them descriptions at the start, and then the first week or so of the sprint I was very busy. After this initial period, I was able to catch up on my work and get a lot done. I was primarily in charge of getting an updated example of our front end based on an old one that was provided to us from previous years. For this, I used google forms, but in the end I had to take screen shots of all my work and upload those in case the forms document that I created got deleted or lost. This will be helpful for our team and for any students working on this project in the future. There is still a bit of work I need to do on this example to make it perfect for what we want, but this has been added as a small task for me to complete in the next sprint. Overall, our entire team did very well getting a lot done, and although I did not get the backend coding assigned to me, I was able to lend my insight and some advice and code to my teammates. This sprint was a lot different than our previous sprint primarily because it had less to do with learning how to use cards and work in a sprint and had more to do with getting real work done to further our progress on this project. I presume that the next sprint will be even more important, and we will have a lot of hard work to do to try to complete all or most of our cards. Some things that worked well this sprint were our team’s hard work ethic for getting everything done and our ability to communicate well and let each other know what needs to get done and what we need help with. For this sprint, we actually added a member because of the IAmSystem team splitting up after the first sprint. This was not a problem at all and in fact was more helpful because we were able to get even more cards completed over the couple of weeks we had to work. If I were to change anything or expect anything more from the next print, it would be that I personally will be able to get a lot more work done earlier in the sprint without having a surgery as a distraction. I am excited to see how far we can get on this project by the conclusion of this semester, and hopefully we will be able to get a nice looking and working project by the end. This whole experience has been great for me so far for learning how to work in groups for sprints, and I know that after college I will run into many projects where I have to work like this.

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Sprint 2 Retrospective

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/guestinfosystem/community/-/issues/6

(Read over/review UpdateGuestInfo for frontend): In the comments, there is detail on how to frontend will function for a guest info update. In case of a new guest or old guest, the ID will be entered first and then the guest will be accessed if they exist.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/guestinfosystem/community/-/issues/35

(Implement components/schemas to be used in backend endpoints): Updates were made to the OpenAPI.yaml file. These included new responses, corrections to schemas, and corrections to endpoints.

https://gitlab.com/LibreFoodPantry/client-solutions/theas-pantry/guestinfosystem/backend/-/issues/2

(Implement API for backend endpoints in Node): The title is self-explanatory here; I implemented the GET route while David implemented the PUT route, as well as updating all the example files to fit GuestInfoSystem rather than items for InventorySystem. My chages occurred in endpoints.js and guest.js

As far as our timing within the sprint, we did much better this time than last time. We made use of due dates and stuck to them, even if refactoring was necessary afterwards. Our goal was getting working backend code up and shared with the group. From here, everyone was able to be on the same page in a timely manner. We also made better use of communication within GitLab, mainly in the cards and via merge requests. This way, even if Alex, Tim, or Cam was not working on the backend, they would still be able to see the code and understand how it functioned.

            We still have some significant improvements to be made as a team, though. Even though everything was made more public through cards and merges during this sprint, getting everyone on the same page insofar as how the project as a whole was functioning seemed to be lacking at times. This definitely slows down progress as there was separation between the backend development (what I was mainly contributing to with a great, great deal of contributions from David) and EventSystem and KeyCloak development. I’m still not sure if everyone is grasping how deployment of the system is working with Docker. We still need to be communicating and collaborating more than we are currently, as well as asking more questions if everyone is not in synch. This leads to some ambiguity on division of labor as well. We tend to be working linearly (with some people waiting to work on their part) instead of in parallel. This is where communication needs to be better, as well as planning.

            As a team, we should be communicating better during our time in class. I think I had the assumption that everyone was on the same page when no questions were being asked, which I don’t think was necessarily the case. This would help the pace at which we worked for sure. There is little progress to be made without a thorough understanding of the system. Coming up on our last sprint, there is no time to waste. I would hope no one feels uncomfortable asking questions though; as Apprenticeship Patterns states, expose your ignorance. And perhaps it’s just a lack of articulation in our cards. We have been better in using our cards, but I’m sure they could still benefit from more detail.

            I think I should be better in organizing with members from other teams, especially for the frontend. I wasn’t sure how the backend would be working, so I put off frontend development in favor of the backend. I definitely feel comfortable with that now, but I also feel kind of behind on the frontend. I expect this upcoming sprint to be exactly that: a somewhat hectic sprint. We have our work cut out for us, so focus is the name of the game. Organizing with members of other teams should be greatly beneficial, especially with my beginners Vue.js status. 3 minds are greater than one!

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