8 – Review and Iterate


🎯 Learning Objectives

After this lesson you should be able to:

  • Apply the iterative development skills to your own work
  • Review work to see if it meets expectations
  • Build your time management skills
  • Make independent progress on your games project
💬 Key Vocabulary

  • Interactive
  • Agile
  • Sprint
  • Scrum
  • Stakeholder
  • Project Management
  • Scrum Master
  • Milestone
  • User Experience
  • Iteration
  • Version Control
Last lesson, you…

  • Joined up with other students into a group
  • Assigned yourself roles within the group
  • Submitted a project proposal
  • Started to make independent progress on your games project
Today, you will…

  • Review your progress so far, and decide what you will be working on next.
  • Hold a stand up meeting, and set a weekly milestone
  • Make more independent progress on your project

📝 Activity 1 – Stand Up!

Once you’re in your group, you should hold your next stand up. You should recall what you did last week, and decide what to do next. Each member of your group should have tasks which will help you all meet your milestone.

📝 Activity 2 – Get set, go!

In your group, look at your milestone – whatyou want to have done at the end of the lesson. Once you’ve agreed on this, start working! Give yourself enough time to discuss your progress at the end, and self-evaluate how well you met your goal.

Remember – if you’re making changes, you should be doing these on a copy of the original work, so that you can go back if needed!

💬 Summary

In this lesson, you…

  • Reviewed your progress so far, and decide what you will be working on next.
  • Held a stand up meeting, and set a weekly milestone
  • Made more independent progress on your project

In the next lesson, you will…

  • Learn about beta testing and how it influences development.
  • Test and review another game before improving your own.
  • Make further independent progress on your project.

🏅 Badge it

🥈 Silver Badge

  • Made progress, but falling short of your milestones.
🥇 Gold Badge

  • Met your milestones for the week.
🥉 Platinum Badge

  • Exceeded your milestones for the week .