Compiled Learning Objectives

Goal setting and planning

• Identify the Portfolio module goals
• Create a set of SMART employment goals
• Identify your weekly activities and availability

Ground rules

• Establish the rules for getting a new project off the ground

Bad Interview Answers

• Wake up and make ourselves laugh

Goal of the Portfolio Module

• Reflect on the Portfolio Module criteria

Reviewing and improving goals

• Share your SMART goals and Weekly Activity spreadsheet
• Review your peers’ goals and give feedback
• Identify challenges to achieving the shared goals
• Develop a strategy for overcoming those challenges

Understanding Requirements

• Identify described requirements
• Identify extra requirements from your own experience
• Resolve trade-offs in conflicting requirements
• Translate requirements into high-level design outlines

User stories

• Identify described requirements
• Identify extra requirements from your own experience
• Resolve trade-offs in conflicting requirements
• Translate requirements into high-level design outlines

Gathering requirements

• Choose a project brief
• Identify and explain the key user stories for your project

User Interface

• Identify key features for the user interface
• Propose basic designs for key parts of the user interface
• Write objectives you can measure

Data

• Identify core components required to supply data and functionality to the user interface

Break it down

• Propose acceptance criteria for a given user story
• Set up a project board
• Write up user story as issues
• Generate acceptance criteria for user issues

Prep the work for the week

• Create a clear plan for teamwork