CS2103/T - Admin: tP week 4: Set direction

Start weekly project meetings
Start a collaborative doc to take project notes before the tutorial
Decide on an overall project direction (user profile, problem addressed) before the tutorial

1 Start weekly project meetings

We recommend you start weekly project meetings now. You can use the meeting to do tP tasks, but also help each other do iP tasks. On a related note, it is also acceptable to discuss weekly post-lecture quiz (if any) together with team members as you do the quiz i.e., discuss and decide the answer collectively, but you should not give away your answers to someone who was not part of that discussion.

2 Start a collaborative doc to take project notes before the tutorial

Keep project notes in easy-to-use collaborative docs (Recommended: use a GoogleDoc). This document will be checked by the instructors at various points.
Remember to choose a tool that allow public view access e.g., GoogleDoc can be shared via a public link so that the document can be viewed by others. You'll be asked to submit this link to us in the next week.
Make sure all you current and future project notes (if split into in multiple documents) are reachable via links given in this document and are viewable by the public.

3 Decide on an overall project direction (user profile, problem addressed) before the tutorial

Decide project direction, target user profile, and problem addressed: Use your first project meeting to discuss with your team members and decide your project direction, target user profile, and the value proposition of the product, as described in the panels below:

As we are still at the early stages of identifying a problem to solve, do not think of the product (i.e., the solution) yet. That is, do not discuss the product features, UI, command format, and implementation details, etc. unless they are pertinent to the decision of the project direction.

You can use the button in a panel to open it as a new tab (it can be expanded in-place too). This feature is available only for panels containing another full page of the website (i.e., not available if the panel contains an extract of a page).

Admin tP: Expectations

Admin tP: Constraints

Pick the morph option at your own risk: As mentioned elsewhere, morph option (i.e., aiming to build an application that manages anything other than contacts) is the harder option, especially at the start of tP coding (morphing is an extensive change that needs to be done very early in the project, and quickly). Choose it only if your team has at least one strong programmer who is willing to invest extra effort to create a 'different' application.

Pick a CLI-friendly product domain: Given Recommendation-CLI-First and Constraint-Typing-Preferred mentioned in the panels above, it makes sense to pick a product domain that is more suitable for CLI interactions i.e., a product that deals with easy-to-type textual data, needs a small number of data fields, and each data field is short. For example, a blog editor is an unsuitable product domain because it also deals with non-text data (e.g., images, videos) and some data fields are quite long (i.e., paragraphs of text). Similarly, keeping track of extensive employee records may be an unsuitable domain if there are many data fields per employee.

Submission: Submit via TEAMMATES.
- Details to submit:
  1. Product name (plain text only) e.g., ClientContactsPro
  2. Target user profile (plain text only) e.g., freelance event photographers
  3. Value proposition i.e., what problem does the product solve? (plain text paragraph, no more than 50 words) e.g., provide fast access to client contact details, optimized for users who prefer a CLI
    This is not a list of features -- you should not think about exact features yet.
  4. Link to the project notes document: This should be an online document/page (not a folder) -- e.g., a GoogleDoc (not a Google Drive location) -- that is publicly accessible. If your project notes are in multiple locations/files, this one document should contain the link to the other documents with guidance on which link is for what.
- You'll receive an email from TEAMMATES with the submission link. Only one member needs to submit on behalf of the team. All members can view/update the submission.
- Submission link will be sent to you by Mon, Sep 4th (reason: we need a few days to set up the submission system after teams have been finalized).
- FAQ: Can we change these values later?
  Answer: Yes. If the submission deadline is not over yet, use the same link to update the submission. If the submission deadline is over, email the updated name, target user, value proposition to cs2103@comp.nus.edu.sg.