w/c Monday, 4 November 2024
Worth noting that maybe after every-day we can have a brief of what happened that day, and what needs to be prepared the next.
Day 1 (Monday)
Time |
Activity |
Staff |
Notes |
9:30 - 11:00 |
Welcoming and Orientation |
Jill |
- Introduction to company |
- Meet the mentors/team-leads
- Overview of agenda |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Introduction to Software Development | Shawn/
Chris | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch break | | |
| 13:00 - 16:00 | Cross-Department Introductions | Jill | - Skills:
Product leads explain how their projects work
- Comms:
Understand how they interact with business, to promote the work we do, and celebrate success
- Interactive Session:
Q&A with employees from non-technical roles to understand their day-to-day responsibilities and how they work with developers. |
Day 2 (Tuesday)
Time |
Activity |
Staff |
Notes |
9:30 - 12:00 |
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(2.5h) |
Planning and Structuring the Development Process |
Jill (Agile) |
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JP/Dev |
1. Short overview of Agile |
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- video and short overview of what Agile/Scrum is (1h)
- Project briefs (printed!)
- People get handed out papers on the briefs, and will breakdown to requirements(?) (1h ish workshop)
- People get divided into groups
- Feature Ideation
- MOSCOW |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch break | | |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Wireframing | JP/Dev | - Importance of UX and the process of creating user-friendly designs
- Using Penpott to create wireframes of what the project will look like |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Setting up dev environment | JP/Dev | Make sure accounts are created:
- Github
- Linear
- Slack (?)
Make sure it’s installed:
- node
- git
- VSCodium
- Linear (could use web?)
- Slack (?)
Maybe hello world to the github :] |
Day 3 (Wednesday)
Time |
Activity |
Staff |
Notes |
9:30 - 12:00 |
Start building product and First StandUp |
JP/Dev |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:00 - 16:00 |
Develop the MVP |
JP/Dev |
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Day 4 (Thursday)
Time |
Activity |
Staff |
Notes |
9:30 - 12:00 |
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(1.5h) |
Dev |
JP/Dev |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:00 - 16:00 |
Dev |
JP/Dev |
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Day 5 (Friday)
Time |
Activity |
Staff |
Notes |
9:30 - 12:00 |
Finish up dev work, |
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Presentation |
JP/Dev |
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12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
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13:00 - 16:00 |
Final Presentations |
JP/Dev |
- Demo |
- Feedback to the team
- Reflections
What they learnt, what went well, what’s challenging, etc.
Discuss next steps for career progression. |