W04 Team Activity: Final Project Proposal
Overview
This week you are finishing Project 2, which you are working on individually. Next week, you will start on your Final Project, which you will complete with your team.
To prepare for this final project, for your team activity this week, you will brainstorm and design it with your team.
Purpose: Create a detailed plan of your final project.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this assignment you will be able to do the following:
- Work with a team to plan a backend API
- Produce project documentation
Why a Team Project?
This project is designed to be completed as a team, because that is the way projects are structured in industry. By working as a team, you are learning how to divide work and communicate with others and you are also learning how to use tools like Git to review and merge code, and work on a shared codebase in the same way you will at a company in your career.
Working together is not always easy, in fact, at times it can be quite difficult. And yet, employers consistently mention how important it is for students to learn to work with others, so you gain experience managing both the technical and the interpersonal challenges.
For all these reasons, you need to complete this project as a team, rather than doing a project by yourself.
Assignment Description
Final Project Proposal
- For this assignment, as a team you will decide on a topic for your Final Project and submit your official project proposal.
- As you decide on a project, review the Week 07 Project requirements to ensure it is a good fit.
- Download this starting template and update it for your project.
- You will notice that this template is relatively comprehensive. It may take a while to properly complete, but this will assist you greatly as you begin work on your API contracts next week.
- This template will prompt you to answer important questions and plan out how project development will look.
Submission
When you have finished the document:
- Return to Canvas to submit your project proposal.
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