There are three deliverables for this course.

• Your team project
• Your client project
• You and your team

The third is most important in the long run.

How This Course Works

• Build / Reflect / Improve / Repeat
• Learn by doing, not listening to lectures
• The biggest effort comes at project start
  • now and again in 5 weeks
• Class is for discussion, setting goals, doing work
  • Attendance is critical

Key resources

• The course web site
• the book, The Agile Samurai
• Canvas
• Campuswire
• my slides
• the web

Grading

• Projects: 76 points × your CATME contribution factor
• Individual actitivities: 24 points

• Independently done, multi-day, learn-by-doing
• Delay = decay grading
  • progress value reduced by prior days with no progress

• "How well you work with your team will make or break your experience in this course. If you have a good team, this will be one of the most awesome CS courses you'll take. If not, it'll be just another big project that you need to get done."
• Myths about teams:
  • What you need is one really good programmer
  • The purpose of a team is to split up the work
  • It's luck whether you get a good team

• Set up a swarming schedule for this week
• Pick a communication channel
• Pick your app
• Start working on
  • your 4-panel storyboard
  • Quick, React!
  • the team repo setup task