Team BluePay has been meeting regularly to polish our presentation for the Preliminary Design Review. We improved our transition flow and time management while also speaking with enthusiasm. During our weekly meeting with our team coach Ashish, we decided to begin using the Scrum framework for developing our product as a team.

We have outlined three spring that all of us will work towards. Working small amounts for all the features simultaneously and focusing on one task at a time will allow us to make significant progress for our prototype. The team is beginning to use GitHub and Android Studio to set up our project and develop the prototype.

Our team also focused on professional development this week. All team members attended a workshop called “A Thorough Introduction to the Scrum Framework” hosted by Dr. Manuel Bermudez. The workshop was very relevant to our software project. Some things we learned about and will be implementing in our project include sprint planning, different roles of a Scrum team, and product backlogs.

Next week BluePay will start working on Sprint 1 and developing our prototype for inspection day. We can’t wait to be able to show what we’ve worked on this semester!