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Value: 10% of the Course Mark

Due: Monday 28th February (Week 3), 1pm

1. Task

In this sprint, you will be expected to:

  1. Within your team, allocate team roles.

  2. Convert the initial specification for your assigned service category into a list of requirements.

  3. Decide on a stack architecture for your service.

  4. Identify any initial constraints that will affect the team’s performance in the project

  5. Create an initial API interface design for your service.

  6. Plan for the completion of work for the following sprint to complete a MVP of the service.

2. Team Roles

Based on your individual and collective strengths, discuss and as a team allocate the following roles:

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In a Confluence page called Team, document your decision-making process and the reasoning behind the team’s decision.

3. Requirements Analysis

Using Confluence, convert the specification for your assigned service into a list of requirements.

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Document this in a Confluence page called Requirements in your team workspace.

4. Initial Software Architecture Design

As a team, you will need to decide the stack you will use to develop the service. In particular, you will need to decide what frameworks you will use to create each of the following layers of your service:

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Document your decisions and reasoning inside a Confluence page called Architecture.

5. Initial API Design

Convert your list of requirements into an initial API Interface Design for your chosen service. Your interface design will need to include the following:

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Place your design inside a Confluence page called Interface.

6. Project Planning

From your requirements analysis and design, plan for the completion of work for a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of the service.

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Document any important reasoning that occurs as part of this process inside a Confluence page called Planning.

7. Constraint Analysis

Identify and document any constraints - potential bottlenecks, blockers or other obstacles that may arise in the project and affect your performance as a team. Briefly note down any measures you as a team can put in place to exploit the constraints.

Document this inside a Confluence page called Constraints.

8. Communications

As part of this sprint you will need to demonstrate your ability to communicate and work as a team. You will need to have:

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Inside a Confluence page called Communications, document any reasoning and screenshots of communications outside MS Teams.

9. Marking Criteria

Criteria

Description

Team Roles (5%)

  • Have the team roles been allocated logically according to individual member strengths / goals?

  • Has the entire team participated in the process of delegating team roles?

Requirements & Constraint Analysis (15%)

  • Do the requirements listed form a complete and accurate specification of the product?

  • Have the requirements been listed in a consistent and readable format?

  • Have the requirements been organised in a logical hierarchy?

  • Have functional and non-functional requirements been differentiated?

  • Do the requirements outline a specification rather than an implementation?

  • Is there a definition of what done looks like?

  • Are the constraints identified logical, valid and justified?

  • Are the suggested steps taken to exploit constraints feasible?

Initial Software Architecture Design (20%)

  • Have all relevant layers of the service been chosen?

  • Is the stack logical and justified?

  • Is there evidence of deliberation, consideration of multiple options and elimination to decide upon the best ones?

  • Have factors and constraints been taken into account when deciding upon the stack?

Initial API Design (20%)

  • Does the API design provide a near-complete solution to the specified requirements?

  • Does the API provide ability to create, read, list, update and delete data in the service?

  • Have all required fields been included for each endpoint?

  • Are the endpoint descriptions succinct and understandable?

  • Is the interface well formatted and readable?

Project Planning (30%)

  • Do tickets correspond to logical segmentations of work?

  • Are the tickets written at a technical level of abstraction?

  • Have individuals been logically assigned to tasks?

  • Are task allocations approximately equal?

  • Have dependencies and prerequisites between tasks been highlighted?

  • Have story points been logically allocated to tasks according to a specified structure?

  • Have tasks been appropriately broken up into sub-tasks?

  • Have priorities been logically allocated to tasks?

  • Is the backlog sequenced logically?

  • Have tickets been logically grouped under epics?

  • Does the plan provide a complete layout of the next sprint of work?

Communications (10%)

  • Are meeting minutes well laid-out, detailed and insightful?

  • Has the team been using a platform for regular communication?

  • Has the team undertaken Agile communications? (standups, sprint planning, sprint retrospective)

10. Submission

For this sprint, we will take the state of your Jira board and Confluence space at the deadline as your submission. You do not need to run any submission commands.

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