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What worked for Spring 2016

More ramp-up and workshops at the beginning to educate the team about the project:

• Git / GitHub
• Databases
• Conversations with @r03ert0!
• Have clear issues to resolve from the beginning
• How do web applications work
• Debugging PHP, JavaScript, etc.
  • Console.log from PHP - goes to Terminal
• Dealing with JSON across DB / server / client

Approaches:

• Hack sessions where everyone sits down together
• Maybe just one meeting, though - perhaps a 2 hour session with a focus on getting to work
• Clear project management - someone needs to review pull requests in a timely fashion

Goals:

• Real-world experience

Things that might be useful, but weren't:

• Using a PHP IDE. But it wasn't clear how to connect to the dockerized application.

Things to keep mind:

• This is done in "spare time" (even if it's for URAP credit)
• The goal is to provide a "real-world" project experience

Fun ideas:

• Bring @r03rt0 and @davclark in for a sprint!
• @jbpoline has a small training grant that could be applied to our training efforts