👾 👩‍💻 Welcome to Phase 4! 👩‍💻 👾

The past few months have prepared you to take on the challenge ahead in these next four weeks. You may or may not feel ready, but you ARE.

Your goal in this phase is to design and build a real-world software product, working collaboratively on a small team using agile development practices and all the tools you’ve already learned – and some you will learn as you go.

At the end of the phase, your team will present your product to an audience of local tech professionals, hiring partners, and the Momentum community.

The experience of working on a team during this phase and the product you build will form the foundation for your job search. _The people skills you’ll use will be just as important as the technical skills!

You will not begin writing code for your project until Thursday of this week.

Today’s topics

• What is agile development?
• Forming final project groups
• Brainstorming product ideas

✅ TO DO

• BEFORE NOON: Complete this form about Phase 4
• Create a team agreement with your team
• Brainstorm ideas for your final project

Slides

• Phase Overview
• Agile Development
• Coming up with your idea

🔖 Resources

Productivity Timers ⏲️

• Cuckoo The one we use in class 🤓
• Pomofocus Pomodoro Timer
• Marinara Pomodoro Timer Chrome Extension

Time Management

• The Pomodoro Technique for Time Management & Productivity
  • Zapier’s list of Pomodoro Apps
• Time Blocking
• Common Time Management Problems & Solutions

Idea Generation 💡

• awesome-react
• awesome-javascript
• awesome-django
• awesome-python
• public apis
• data is plural

Agile Development

• Beginner’s Guide to Scrum and Agile
• 12 principles from the Agile Manifesto
• The Power in Agile, a talk by Sarah Mei A critical look at the power dynamics implicit in Agile methods.
• Command Line Heroes Podcast Produced by RedHat and hosted by Saron Yitbarek, this is a scripted podcast that tells the story of software from the last 40-ish years or so. Season 1 has an episode of the origin of Agile Development. The whole series is really well done. If you enjoy understanding the history of things like I do, you will like this podcast!
• What is Code? by Paul Ford Read this for the stakeholder perspective – really long but really well written and produced!