E58: Experience team formation

By the end of this module, you should have:

• Formed a team.
• Carried out the “bonding” exercise to learn about each other (E55)
• Created a GitHub organization and a github.io repository along with a README.md file, and published it as the home page for your organization. (E56)
• Created the first Project Board representing the work for the first Milestone. It contains at least two issues for each team member.

Now you will present the results of team formation to the class. Since this week includes a holiday on Thursday, there will be no inclass presentation. Instead, you will post the following links to the #final_project channel in Discord:

• The name of your team, your team members, and the section you are in.
• A link to your initial GitHub Project Page under preparation for Final Project Milestone M1. Note: you do not have to have an HTML mockup at this point. As an alternative, you can embed pictures of paper-and-pencil mockups into this page.
• A link to your M1 Project Board. Make sure the Project Board is organized according to the IDPM guidelines. Here’s an example Project Board from BowFolios: https://github.com/bowfolios/bowfolios/projects/3.

Submission Instructions

You will be evaluated based upon the structure and completeness of your team materials. More specifically, you must have:

• Created a GitHub organization for your project, with two repos: one that provides the home page for your organization, and one that provides the source code for your application.

• The organization home page must describe your project and team members.

• All team members must have commit access to all repositories in the organization.

• All team members must have uploaded a profile picture to GitHub. That way, it is easy to associate issues in the Project board with the team member assigned to it.

• The application repo should have a set of issues, at least two per team member.

• There should be one defined project board, called “M1”. The project should have three columns, “To Do”, “In Progress”, “Done”. You should select the project template called “Automated kanban”, which creates these columns automatically along with actions to move issues into and out of them.

• Each issue’s description field should start with the line, “Do all work for this task in a branch called issue-XX”, where “XX” is replaced by the number associated with this issue. The remainder of the issue description field should outline what needs to be accomplished for this task. You can define an issue template to ensure that this template text appears in all new issues.

• Each issue should appear in the project board M1. The column the issue appears in should reflect its current state.

Please review the issue driven project management screencast if these instructions are confusing to you. Also consult the IDPM Guidelines. If, after watching the screencast, you still have questions, please post to the #smart-questions Discord channel.