# SGCs **BEEing my best self** ๐Ÿ’ ![](https://media.giphy.com/media/HSIRYZz9n7Bte/giphy.gif =400x) --- ## Important to Jack ### Stop - Obsessing about project completion - Rejecting ideas before trying them - Long stand ups - Reiterating self / others ad nauseum ### Go - Prioritising listening and patience - Planning - making time to design and agree steps before - Mind map of user flow and file architecture (Miro?) for README - Compliments as well as criticisms - More balance in pair programming - Bring joyful energy into future teams - User manual feedback ### Continue - Using project board & Miro - Big picture perspective - optimism and reflection - Open mindedness to others' ways of thinking - Great planning - Clear, distinct issues - Building cool things - Jumping into rooms/checking in and **asking questions** - Being honest and flexible with each other :+1: - More GIFs, pics and demo time than writing on slides - Relaxed environment but still productive - Self-learning midfully --- ## Rollover from weeks 1-7 ### Stop - [ ] Copy and paste ### Go - [ ] Review Estimates -> Actual - [ ] Encourage opportunities to fail - [ ] Simple CSS asap, e.g. basic styling based on HTML template - [ ] Maybe 3min-ish group movement - [ ] Maybe having set in breaks? - [ ] Also reminding each other to drink water and not look at the screen 20/20/20 - [ ] COVID19 project (work on something together outside course) - [ ] More tools we learn about e.g. debug module and CI ### Continue - [ ] Celebrating victories --- ## WK1 ### 1a Stop - [x] Obsessing about project completion - [x] Rushing & solo programming ### 1b Go - [x] Planning - making time to design and agree steps before starting to code - [x] Let's agree what constitutes an issue and our process for raising and resolving them, including the role of labels - [x] **Prioritising listening and patience** - [x] Swap every 1h30 incl 5 mins for group reflection & getting up to speed - [x] Commenting code - [x] Compliments as well as criticisms - [x] 15 mins before lunch to assess progress and level of support ### 1c Continue - [x] Using project board - [x] **Open mindedness to others' ways of thinking** - [x] **Being mindful of interrupting (chewing gum method and sociocracy fingers)** - [x] Thoughtfully reviewing pull requests --- ## WK2 ### 2a Stop - [x] Jumping in when others want to talk - [x] **Reiterating self / others ad nauseum** - [x] Rejecting ideas before trying them - [x] Long stand ups - [x] Don't get detailed - if required set a separate 'ceremony' ### 2b Go - [x] **Try Jitsi for video conferencing** - [x] Make sure everyone gets a chance to be heard (incl volume) - [x] Breathe before responding - [ ] **Encourage opportunities to fail** - [x] More balance in pair programming - [x] **More commits at every relevant point** - [x] Scrum master keeps us on time ### 2c Continue - [x] Great planning - [x] Clear, distinct issues - [x] Hangouts - talking one at time - [x] Building cool things - [x] **Big picture perspective - optimism and reflection** - [x] Considering remote needs - [x] Swapping pairs - [x] Using Live Share mindfully (not coding when someone else is driving) - [x] **Regular stand ups** - [x] Complimenting each other and other teams --- ## WK3 ### 3a Stop - [x] Planning and getting started look a long time - work on shortening it? - [x] There could be tools for this e.g. James' whiteboard, also - [x] Jack: losing sight of the big picture ### 3b Go - [x] **We should start using prettier as a team, and before every commit. There's also a setting so it runs every time you save** - [x] camelCase and BEM - [x] Share responsibility for project board and issues - [x] **Commit little and often like saving a Word doc + get co-authoring thing to work! (Gio)** - [x] Let's all try to be mindful of whether we are changing something that was established in a previous commit. If we really need to do it, it might help to let the other team know - [x] Relax about being scrum master :) - [x] co-author commits - sharing is caring ### 3c Continue - [x] Pair swapping often :) - [x] Teaching each other things - [x] Using live share and group hangouts - use more to ask questions? - [x] respecting each other's learning objectives --- ## WK4 ### 4a Stop ### 4b Go - [ ] **Review Estimates -> Actual** - [ ] **Simple CSS asap, e.g. basic styling based on HTML template** - [x] Exploring other peopleโ€™s approaches to solving a problem - [ ] **End liveshare sessions for git merge** ### 4c Continue - [x] Being awesome - [x] Jumping into rooms/checking in and asking questions - [x] using Miro and Jitsi as a group beforhand - [x] **making clear issues to work within the parameters of** - [x] Great code review --- ## WK5 ### 5a Stop - [x] Enabling Oli to steal our passwords ### 5b Go - [x] Mind map of file architecture (Miro?) - [ ] **Maybe having set in breaks?** - [ ] **Also reminding each other to drink water and not look at the screen 20/20/20** - [x] Fixing Oli being able to hack us - [x] Bring this joyful energy into future teams (stay resilient) - [ ] **Maybe 3min-ish group movement** - [x] User manual feedback ### 5c Continue - [x] Pokemon analogies - [x] Being total angels - [x] Being honest to each other :+1: - [x] Being flexible (honesty is key!) - [x] Asking each other questions - [x] Being a fantastic scrum master - [x] Listening to each other - [x] Reluctantly learning Oliโ€™s best practice - [x] More GIFs, pics and demo time than writing on slides - [x] Laughing/joking!! :100: - [x] Relaxed environment but still productive ## WK6 ### 6a Stop - [ ] Copy and paste - [x] Mobbing too long (soft stop) ### 6b Go - [x] Killing those darlings ruthlessly :knife: - [x] Group effort for readme - [x] User flow first ## 6c Continue - [x] Being chill af - [x] Explaining code to the other pairs - [x] Tactical mobbing - [x] Excellent tag game - [x] Planning :+1: - [x] Being flexible - [x] Reflective SGCs & thoughtful stand ups - [x] Self-learning mindfully ## WK 7 ### 7a Stop - [x] Being so slow with learning new things like Express. I'd already got it by Sunday - [x] Mapping promises you can't keep ### 7b Go - [x] Making sure every group is building a running app next week - [ ] COVID19 project (work on something together outside course) - [ ] More tools we learn about e.g. debug module and CI - [x] Make sure code reviews issues are done before going back to original plans ### 7c Continue - [x] Being....... LEGENDARY - [x] Scrum Master :handshake: - [x] miro and readmes - [x] Smooth as silk planning and execution - [x] Focus on flow fom user perspective - [x] Amazing knowledge sharing - [x] Great debugging - [ ] Celebrating victories ## WK8 ### 8a Stop ### 8b Go - [ ] Take breaks when debugging - [ ] Modularising and abstracting from the start - [ ] Try other solutions, besides tutorial (?) - [ ] Use next week to re-energise ### 8c Continue - [x] Swap pairs - [ ] Being an awesome artist - [ ] mobbing done right ( just enough and when neccessary ) - [x] Great comunication - [x] Great clarity on issues