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Review Once again, this week was full of unexpected problems in part due to the technologies I'm using for the project. I realised I wasn't building the Ember application in the production environment,

As the deadline is fast approaching, I need to get a move on. CRUD functionality for projects and user stories must be implemented first of all. Then, support for creating sprints must be

Review Oh dear. What has happened? This sprint started 21 days ago, and I'm two weeks late posting this R&R. The Easter holidays were partly to blame for that, but I

This is a presentation that I gave to my Second Marker, explaining what my project is about and my development progress. I also gave a demonstration of the Ember application running. I've included

Wireframes are important for exploring the way in which data is presented to the user, before a design for the page is thought up. In time for the Mid-Project Demonstration, I have prepared

On Monday morning is the Mid-Project Demonstration with my project's Second Marker. I will be planning for that, and hope to get some work done in this sprint to have something pretty to

Review Once again I didn't have much time this week as I was at an assessment centre for a role at the BBC (which went very well 😃), so that took away two days

'Fun' being ultra-sarcasm for 'not fun'. One thing that's 'nice' about Ember is that it uses QUnit for automated testing. Well... that genuinely is nice. Ember provides by default a fantastic testing infrastructure

I demonstrated to my supervisor the login form that currently exists in the application, and explained the use of oauth2. For the next sprint, he suggested it would make sense to work on

Review Much of this week was spent on the conference poster, but this sprint also focused on authentication. I used the Ember Simple Auth package for this. Initially, it was quite complex to

For the CS382 module, I was tasked to create a conference poster about my Major Project.

Unfortunately, the last sprint took much longer than I hoped, due to reasons I mentioned in the retrospective. However, the last sprint involved much planning anyway, so this is where we get into

Review The first sprint is done! A staging server has now been set up using nginx, which can be found at smallscrum.joshtumath.uk. I have also laid out in a blog post

The main focus of my current sprint is to work out what environment I will be using for the implementation of SmallScrum. My criteria Server I would like to be able to run

Now it's time to really crack on with the development for the Major Project. I've decided to call the project Small Scrum as a working title (which is a bit shorter than Software

What's done This week has been very busy for me, due to helping out with the Christian Union's mission week. However, I was able to get some work done: I received the conference

In my last update, I said that I have - to my surprise - discovered a conference proceeding that's directly related to my project! I did not expect there would be any academic

What's done My Outline Project Specification is now completed and submitted. I hope to have it hosted online somewhere soon. While searching for relevant papers, there was one I came across that was

What's done Last week, I've been doing a lot of preparatory work to get this project off the ground: Met up with my supervisor on Thursday to discuss a very rough draft of

As of last week, I officially started my Major Project (dissertation) for my final year at University. During this semester, I have almost all of my time dedicated to my project, which is