Sprint 3 Retrospective

[katerosenthal]

Sprint 3 Goal:

Our goal for Sprint 3 was to: finish parsing the data, be able to host the web page, heat map key implemented, have the dials working properly, and start implementing unit tests. We also wanted to be able to temporarily store files as session data.

Did we meet this goal:

We completed the majority of what we wanted to achieve in Sprint 3. We are able to parse data for both the .inp and .csv files. A docker image was created for our project and it is now hosted on the SDP server. Our heat map key has color elements complete, but we need additional information from our sponsor in order to correctly implement the proper units and range of values for each color. Our dials exist as fully CSS elements instead of images now, but still need to be made interactive using JS. A testing environment has been set up for our project as well, but no tests have been run in it yet. .inp files are able to be stored as session data line-by-line.

What we can improve on:

As a team, we could continue to work to improve our velocity by making sure all stories are completed each sprint and not being consistently held over into the following sprint. Some team members could still work to avoid procrastination and submitting too many PR's on the day before or the day the sprint ends.

Overall performance:

We feel that this sprint went well overall. More progress and function were added to the project than in previous sprints and we are finally able to start working with the data in the provided files and using them to change the image on our canvas element. The team's communication has continued to stay very strong throughout Sprint 3.

Team capacity and velocity:

Our capacity has still been two user stories for each member on the team. Most of all of the work was able to be completed this sprint, but still not all, so we are going to maintain this capacity for Sprint 4. We hope to increase our velocity next sprint by actually completing every story and then being able to consider increasing our capacity as well.