2022-02-21 Meeting notes

Actionables 

• Asynchronous Standups on Friday 

• Garvi set up the Jira / Transfer meeting minute notes (for tomorrow)  

• Joshua - start looking at architecture 

• Set up folders on Confluence (before tuesday tut)  

Team Expectations  (of team and term)

Edward : 

• No mark expectations until the first iteration is complete

• High expectation of the team in doing their best. 

• Course will be us figuring out what path we want to go down for the assignment - building off the minimal documentation + researching.

Garvi : 

• Communication - asking for help, there’s quite a few tasks that need to be completed.

• Course : Team is still figuring out the spec. Making sure to reach out to tutors to fix quieres 

Joshua : 

• Work relatively hard + communication - rely on your team 

• We learn something in the course :))

Michelle : 

• Figure out when other deadlines are, and actually work and plan

• Being accepting of things/events in other people’s lives (if there are other things due or life events)

• Similar expectations of term as others

Tay : 

• Not slacking off + a lot of communication. Being okay to call each other whenever. 

• Help each other - and be open minded and taking time out, if they can’t set up something etc etc. e.g. a bug. 

Skills and Experience 

<everyone 1531> 

Edward: MIPS, C, Python 

Garvi: MIPS, C(limited)  , Python, HTML(v limited) 

Joshua : MIPS, C , Python, Java (rusty) ,  ReactJS,  Dart/Flutter

Michelle : MIPS, C , Python, 

Tay : C , Python, Java(rusty) , Javascript + HTML + CSS , SQL

Strengths of Each member / Even better if 

(logically according to individual member strengths / goals?)

Tay : 

• Procrastinate -  need deadlines 

• Good at picking up concepts and languages 

• Enjoy working with others (pair programming) 

• Will get work done! 

Joshua : 

• Pick up languages quite quickly. 

• Fast at completing tasks 

• Limited at visual 

Michelle :

• Very organised 

• Experience in leading groups 

• Time to understand, 

• Good with deadlines - accountability

Garvi : 

• Visual requirements + interface 

• Organised

Edward : 

• Struggle the most with organisation - keep me accountable. 

• Stepping in and helping others, feel quite comfortable. 

• Getting the work done, once starting. Disciplined to finish off task. 

• Comfortable reading through code and helping with bugs 

• Pick up languages quickly 

Edward + Joshua : Strengths include hands on coding. 

Team Dynamics

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?

Garvi : Delivery Manager – Organises the meetings, ff we are slow on our deadlines, checking up on teammates and ensuring everyone is working at their tasks.   

Edward : Product owner -  Understanding the spec 

Joshua : Scrum master -  Overseeing the code in the project 

Michelle prefers to not be product owner - not enough knowledge of what we want

Tay : Scrum master (with Joshua) → manager of people, keeping people accountable on tasks  and providing help if needed. 

Confluence 

Complete both the board and roadmap 

Additional Topics 

-Sending an SMS + through email. 

-Send it as a downloadable email. Storing is also an option. 

• Input - UBL format and we need to send this. Sending the XML file. 

-Creating websites 

Output : Your output should be able to pass any correctly implemented validator mentioned in the “Invoice Validation” section of this document. (from spec) 

1. Need to have 1 API call → return saying we’ve sent it 

2. If there’s a problem, return a problem 

3. Also need to do testing.

Design the API done by week 1. 

• Have the URL - what it send and what it returns 

^^ Set this up for week 1 (1531 example) 

-API design on Swagger and Requirements on Confluence