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Sprint 5 Retrospective (Capstone)

It is a shame that we are so close to the end of the semester. We were gaining so much momentum. It took us a while for us to get off the ground, but once we did, we never stopped gaining speed. I feel we will be able to keep this up through this last sprint.

My hopes at the beginning of the semester for what we could accomplish were unrealistically high, but I am not disappointed with what we accomplished. We have not completed a full working component quite yet, but we are very close.

I think our efforts are best spent finishing the one we are currently working on and doing it right. If we divided our efforts into starting something new, we run the risk of not fully completing anything. In the sage words of Ron Swanson, “Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing.” If we are able to get the tabs working beautifully, I will be happy with our effort.

I have felt that our group has done a phenomenal job this sprint and every sprint before with our communication. We have a few venues of communication, using the most appropriate for what we need. Most days, we have been back and forth in a group chat. Whenever we find resources, we add it to a Google Drive document.

The days of our classes have been incredibly productive for the most part. I am surprised what we can get done in a little over an hour. When I play around with parts of it on my own, I find I hit walls more easily. It is great to have the shared pool of resources to help each other out.

We have largely been working from the official Angular guide to how to work with tab components. We found this very early on, but it has been our primary guide to everything we have done so far. The great thing about is that we have a few different ideas of what we want the final product to look like, and there are examples with all the code we need to do what we pick.

I think the most important thing we do when we plan this last sprint is to finalize what we want the end product to look like. There is an idea of having a button to add a new tab, but we don’t have a clear idea what the content of that tab will be if we decide to go that route. It is key to plan it out fully before diving in so we don’t waste any of the little time we have left.

A part of me wishes we could have two more sprints after this, because once we finish this component, I would like to continue to try to create another after this. Perhaps, in a way I can. Even if I do not continue working for this project in particular, I can use all the skillsets that I have picked up to continue to work on project just like this independently.

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