Client Presentation/Heartbeat Retrospective meeting

Our Second sprint finished today quite successfully if the team may say so. We had a quick stand-up meeting prior to the client demonstration, I mentioned that each member should add a bit about what they had done during client meeting, as it felt like only one member was speaking last time and this could have potential bad results on our grades. The team agreed and each member decided to speak about their own piece of work that they had produced.

We collected the required documents and had a quick look at the video, Sokrates again mentioned that with Powtoon you can only add 1 piece of voice over, and that was the reason the last 2 minutes of the presentation had no sound, I quickly decided to go and record the entire script in one voice over as the client was still getting ready, once I was done, Socrates quickly implemented it to our video, hoping that it would match the animation, some parts didn’t and so we added/removed pieces to the presentation.

Luckily we were able to do this before the meeting and it turned out great.

Several things were discussed with the client, as in:

– The extra parts that need to be input to conclude the presentation

– The first scene text needs to be replaced with an image

– Text needs to be input above the roles so viewers can relate to the two titles

– The video needs to match the voice over better

The group chatted to the customer about the whole Agile process and our thoughts. We of course agreed it is very effective and it is working very well, nothing feels like a chore, and the team have a good relationship.

After the meeting we proceeded to do our Sprintly retrospective meeting.

First starting with congratulating the team on the job well done and the co-operation.

Then the questions:

What went well?

– Good animation

– Script gives good description

– Project charter was redone to good standard

– All members were present

– Stand-up meetings were always in place and on time

– Good communication between team members

– Most of product owner requests from last sprint were implemented

– All products were finished and ready for demonstration on time

– Blogging was done for every meeting

What went badly?

– Voice over addition was late

– First scene was not changed even though mentioned by client

– One blog post was not done well

What could be improved?

– Voice over needs to match the information better

– First scene text needs to be removed

– Pair programming scene needs name of two users above the character

– Storyboard needs to be improved to look presentable

– Voice over needs to be redone, at a faster pace

– Presentation needs to be taken back down to 3 minutes

With these points we concluded out retrospective meeting, added our new user stories to the storyboard and begun the final sprint.

    

Stand-up meeting 03.03.2015

Today me, Ivan, and Socrates met for our regular stand-up meeting, Vivian is on holiday so was not able to attend, we begun the meeting by talking about the end of the second sprint approaching and which stories still needed looking at. The team as a whole is quite well prepared and not much else needed to be done which is a nice sigh of relief,  Socrates showed us the work he had done on the presentation, and asked for our opinion on the animation for which Ivan, decided should be a bit different and gave Socrates his ideas, showing us the work he had completed prior to the meeting also.

 

 

I(Vitor) showed the team the storyboard for which I had redone which followed the product owners specifications, with much less text and a lot more drawings. We decide that for this sprint finishing :

– Unit Testing

-Integration Testing

-Code review

Was of top priority, and is what we worked on after the meeting, I changed the script to add more information about each topic and this meant that the voice over had to be redone  , this is the last aspect we as a group need to do before the presentation to the client on Thursday. I took it upon myself to do this as I was the one who changed the script. And Socrates accepted this and asked me to inform him when the when it is up on the group folder so he can implement it to our presentation.

Excluding this, all other parts are ready to go for the presentation, the team is confident, and agile is working.

 

Stand-up meeting/Progress update

Today was the first stand-up meeting we had done since the new sprint had begun.

Vivian explained to the team what she had done in regards to the script, the areas she changed, and asked the team what their opinion was, and said she was struggling to keep to the 500 word limit whilst still talking about all of the topics the team would like to address.

Ivan mentioned that he had thought of some new ideas to implement into the video so that we could express the points with more images rather than text.

And Vitor showed his new version of the storyboard to the team, explaining that he was having difficulties in deciding on the amount of frames, as the previous storyboard he had created for sprint one had too many, and so made this version much shorter.

Socrates had travelled to Greece, but did mention that to the team on the previous week.

After this meeting the team looked together at the user story board and started to dig away at the user stories, Vivian and Vitor decided to do the voice over and get that story complete for this sprint and Ivan improved the Project charter, making it more informative whilst at the same time simplistic, improving the teams chance of maximum marks.

Once both stories were complete, they were marked as complete on our user story board and other stories associated with them were moved up, which bought us to the next part, adding the new voice over to our presentation, and finding images to replace the text.