Overall, I felt that Sprint 2 went pretty well. It was the first time going through a full planning session rather than having it set up for us. I felt the planning session went pretty smoothly considering it was the first time all of us were going through it as a team. The team also continues to work well together. I can feel we are getting to know each other better day by day, including both some common personal interests to keep conversations going as well as getting a better idea for what each team member is good at/capable of. I feel that knowing these kinds of things is important for the team to work well as a whole unit rather than a bunch of individual pieces. People are getting better about attending the standups as well, which is good to see as they are important in helping keep each other informed on what is going on in between classes. This also helps prevent duplicating work. We all seem to be on the same page more and more.
We accomplished pretty much everything we wanted to accomplish this sprint. Everyone had a chance to check out Balsamiq. To me it seems like a useful, easy to use, intuitive tool. Hopefully we will get a chance to actually put it to good use at some point later on down the line. We also continued to research angular testing. There is a lot of information out there on it, so I feel this will be a continual activity throughout the semester whenever we have some spare time. Overall, the tests don’t seem overly challenging to write. There was also a continued effort to get eveyone’s ng2-amrs running and connecting to their servers. I believe everyone is up and running on that front.
The big task this week was coming up with design ideas based off of AMPATH’s Google Doc. The document was a bit overwhelming at first as it was a bit of an information overload. There are a lot of good goals/ideas in there, so we decided that it would be best if we focused on one of the goals they had. Otherwise we felt we would be spreading ourselves too thin. The goal of choice was to add the capability to login offline and store data offline. We chose this one because it seems to use that it would be the most useful feature considering the environment/places they work in at times. We ended up making a document with some basic things that we know need to be done in order to accomplish this goal. Some of these included finding a way to encrypt patient data and user passwords. We will have to coordinate with other teams on this as we are aware that another team has already started to look at this. We also know we will need a way to communicate with the main platform and have a way to automatically update their database once the tablet is back online. Those were just a few of them. The whole document can be found on our team’s slack page if you are interested in seeing all of them.
I feel if we continue to work together like we did this sprint we will be in a good place come the end of the semester. I don’t see any major changes that need to be made to the team at this point in time. I look forward to continue to work with my teammates come sprint 3.
From the blog CS@Worcester – README by Matthew Foley and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.
