PT Team 3 Final Project Schedule

• March 14-18 Final project generation/planning with Rebecca
• March 22 - May 5 Final project work (schedule below)
• May 2 Code Freeze
• May 2-5 Preparing to present final project (final projects, week 8)
• May 6 Final project demo and graduation

Tuesday - Friday:

Check-in Schedule Expectations

These are guidelines, not rules, so students may not be precisely hitting these deadlines. That is ok. This is meant to give the instructor and students a sense for where students should be at each point.

How to use your time with Kelly:

• Update on what you have done
• Figure out what to do next
• Address any blockers

Week 1 - March 21-25

• Clear product description/vision with wireframes
• Architecture decided
  • Are you building a back end with DRF, using an existing API, or both??
  • What, if any, info are you storing in the database?
  • API example from class Note: if you are building a back end with DRF, you need a separate repo for that. If you aren’t building an API and don’t want to save user info, you don’t need Django at all
  • Are you using React or Vanilla JS for the front end?
• GitHub Project tasks created with backlog, current sprint, and in-progress queued up
• Complete set up or relevant repositories, API accounts, and dependencies, and CSS frameworks (Tachyons, Bulma, etc.)
• Clear definition of MVP to set up the next week

Week 2 - March 28 - April 1

• Working on must have features
• Ideally deployed at least initially (Netlify for JS, Heroku for Django)
• May not have production data
• Mockups done (on Figma, Excalidraw)

Week 3 - April 4 - 8

• At MVP or very close to it
• May have bugs or things still in progress but we can see the app’s main functionality, i.e. the answer to “What does your app do?”

Week 4 - April 11- 15

• The core functioning of your app should work
• If you had to ship it today, it works – without any stretch features

Week 5 - April 18 - 22

FEATURE FREEZE: after this point, no additional features started

• Deployed fully functional app
• Beginning to shape the narrative of your presentation
• Focus switches to fixing bugs and finishing styling

Week 6 - April 25 - 29

• Bugs fixed, unfinished features / unfixable issues cut
• Styling should be finished with consistent look and feel
• The app should be shippable

Presentation Week - May 2 - 6

• Prepare screen capture videos with Loom
• More specs for this will be coming closer to the date.
• Presentation screening, May 6, 2022 noon Eastern