- Ensure you know tP expectations
- Start proper milestone management
- Add the first functionality increment
Reminder:
Milestone requirements are cumulative. The recommended progress for the mid-milestone is an implicit requirement for the actual milestone unless a milestone requirement overrides a mid-milestone requirement e.g., mid-milestone requires a document to be in a temp format while the actual milestone requires it to be in the proper format. Similarly, a requirement for milestone n is also an implicit requirement for milestone n+1 unless n+1 overrides the n requirement. This means if you miss some requirement at milestone n, you should try to achieve it before milestone n+1 or else it could be noted again as a 'missed requirement' at milestone n+1.
1 Ensure you know tP expectations
- If you haven't done so already, make sure you know individual and team expectations of the tP
2 Start proper milestone management
- Set up the issue tracker as described in the panel below, if you haven't done so already.
- Start proper schedule tracking and milestone management as explained in the panel below.
Try to achieve all milestone requirements, but do not fret if you miss a few. You will get full marks as long as you achieve about 60% of the milestone requirements on average. Yes, that's a pretty low bar, but we have set it low in order to reduce workload and stress. Ideally, you should achieve close to 80-90%.
3 Add the first functionality increment
Add functionality in small steps, aiming to deliver the first working version of your product by the mid-milestone (i.e., in one week), and v1.2 at the end of this iteration (i.e., in two weeks).
As mentioned in the last week, if you split the iteration into two smaller increments of one-week each (recommended), name the first onev1.2and the second onev1.2b.From this point onwards each member is expected to contribute the amount of code does not matter; even small contributions are acceptablesome code to each v1.3, v1.4 milestone, preferably each week; only merged code is considered as contributions The ability to deliver code incrementally is an important learning outcome of this module because incremental delivery, among other things, improves the visibility of your work.(Reason).
If you plan to rename the code packages, you may want to do it around this time. Doing it later can be more difficult (e.g., it can cause more merge conflicts), and can cause problems in our code authorship tracking. Also note that renaming packages is optional.
Note: you are required to follow the forking workflow for at least for the first part of this iteration: