Weekly Journal : OOGASalad Midpoint Teamwork Reflection

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers. — Bernard Haisch

For this entry, take a some time to reflect on the project's progress at approximately its midpoint, by analyzing your own role and the roles each person assumed in the team (describe actions, not personal qualities or personalities) and drawing conclusions about how the final outcome could be improved for this team.

Submitting Your Work

Submit this Google Form, in which you will evaluate yourself and your other team member(s) as a tool to help improve everyone's experience with group work.

AND,

Submit a Markdown formatted plain text file, named week14_oogasalad_midpoint.md, to the individual portfolio_NETID repository provided for you in the course's Gitlab group.

Specification

Peer Review

Review your teammates and yourself to independently so we can gather multiple perspectives about how the team is functioning.

Discuss the effectiveness of your team's communication, cooperation, and planning. Note specific, impactful, events during the project to justify your comments rather than general terms like "always late", "writes bad code", etc. For example, a better description would be "Look at commit XXX, it was three days after it was promised (in an email/chat or a public meeting) and it did not work with the current version of the code so it broke the build."

Project Reflection

Use the following questions to guide your reflection:

• Consider the scope of the project you are in the middle of working on
  • Describe one challenging design issue you have worked on
  • Describe the most challenging design issue the team has faced and how it was approached, discussed, and "solved"
  • Describe the best aspect of working on a project of this size
  • Describe the most challenging aspect of working on a project of this size
  • Describe the best aspect of working on a project with this many people
  • Describe the most challenging aspect of working on a project with this many people
• Think about what practices, rather than the work you have produced so far, can best help you finish the project successfully
  • Visualize and then describe what would be a successful outcome for this project
  • Visualize and then describe what would be a unsuccessful outcome for this project
  • Based on those visions, what things do you personally have control over to help make it successful