Mid-semester progress report (in lecture)

At this point you'll be about halfway through the project, and it's a good time to reflect on how things are going. We will ask each team to present for about 10-15 minutes on the following. Someone who has not yet spoken on behalf of the team should lead the presentation, though they can bring another person with them to assist.

Some items we'd like to see covered:

• How's your dashboard? We expect that every team always has a working deployment (staging app) on Heroku, a passing CI on the main branch, good test coverage, and a reasonable (B+ or better) CodeClimate rating. If not, why not?
  • Application performance monitoring: Add the free tier of the New Relic APM (Application Performance Monitoring) add-in on Heroku. It will require adding a gem that puts hooks into your Rails app. Take a look at the New Relic dashboard for your app after making a few requests to it.
• What has your team accomplished so far? A few metrics might include: how many open or merged PRs have you made to the golden repo? (By this point, we are expecting at least 1.) How many points worth of stories have you been delivering?
• Are you and the customer clear on the MVP, and which features are finished/almost finished/in progress/not started for that MVP?
• How have your team practices changed/evolved since Iter 0? This can include changes that have worked well and changes that haven't. It can include communication practices, coding practices, collaboration practices, etc.
• What advice would you have for other teams, either your colleagues this semester or for future offerings?

As usual, slides or not is up to you, we're looking for clarity, specificity, and conciseness.