Topics for Today

• Questions/answers on homework, project, etc.
• Scrum team and project management
• Possibilities for adoption of a few ideas from Scrum in team projects this term

Which of these ideas can you adopt this term?

• User stories & Product Backlog - a quick, lightweight way to collect and document potentially desirable functionality for an open-ended project
  • Collect requirements initially in the form of user stories
  • Select a subset of those to enter into use-case diagram
  • Select a subset of those to elaborate into full use case descriptions
• Sprint Backlog
  • Use Trac to create list of work items
  • Have team members select items, do them, and check them off
• Continual integration
  • Set up a shared repository
  • Check in work products daily
• Daily "scrum" communication
  • If you can't sychronize to meet in person, use Blackboard to post reports
  • This can become part of your team "minutes"
• Scrum Master + Democratic Team?
• More?

Things for You to Do

• Read Chapter 2 of DWT text
• Work on team project, working toward D1
• Take quiz Q5
• Starting thinking about midterm exam, which is next Friday