Week 4: Faculty reviews, responding to questions, postmortems, and flash talks

Week 4 Materials

• Week 4 Slides

Week 4 Goals:

• Flash talks: timelines & milestones, background & objectives
• Faculty Review: what to expect, logistics, overview
• Responding to questions
• Postmortems

Today’s timeline:

• 1:00 - 1:20 - Reminders, questions & share some wins / ideas
• 1:20 - 1:45 - “State of your data” discussion (group sharing)
• 1:45 - 2:45 - Flash talks: Background, problem, objectives
• 2:45 - 3:00 - Break
• 3:00 - 3:45 - Faculty Reviews Part 1: logistics, content, questions
• 3:45 - 4:00 - Break
• 4:00 - 4:30 - Flash talks: Timelines & milestones
• 4:30 - 4:50 - Productive postmortems
• 4:50 - 5:00 - Group time

What you should do before next week:

• Draft Documentation Plan section of Design & Implementation Plan
• Continue editing and weaving drafted sections of D&I Plan
• Read this short post on different types of software testing, and this one on data quality, to understand some different testing and data quality flavors (we’ll discuss more next week)
• Brainstorm different ways you are concerned your product and/or data could break / fail. Prepare a 2-slide flash talk (3 minutes, 2 presenters) to share expected breaks. This will motivate group discussions & feedback on product testing.