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Visions and Goals

Visions and Goals

Owned by olli bowers (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Feb 12, 2024 by olli bowers (Unlicensed)
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Overall Visions

  • What do you want your team to achieve overall this year?

    • more degree support

    • cleaner codebase

    • subcomm that can do work

    • a positive feedback loop on advertising

    • a good foundation for future teams

    • BETTER DOCUMENTATION

  • Who do you want to improve the lives of and how?

    • UNSW students that arenโ€™t just enrolled in CS

    • Double degree enjoyers, etc

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Principles

  • Whatโ€™s a rule or way of leading that you want to follow/live by this year?

    • commitment to your promises

    • not being afraid to make mistakes/changes

    • you can never over communicate

    • open company, no bullshit

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Project Features/Tasks

  • degree support

  • social degree-tabling

    • friends

    • ability to search someone zid and get their degree plan

    • some way to show your friends taking a term when you drag a course

    • how many people total are planning this course in this term

    • NOT SYNCHRONOUS

  • public API

    • enables social timetabling

    • would be paired with a privacy page where users can disable certain endpoints

    • public/friends/no-one

  • context menu changes

  • how to use circles tutorial popups

  • streamline degree selector page

  • no-degree mode

    • backend changes to allow for no degree

    • frontend to disable certain features if no degree

  • unilectives integration

  • better breakpoints

  • disable the old Jira automation

  • transcript parser

  • allow having failed courses on planner

  • align course data to users start year

  • explore postgrad

  • graphical selector tabs

  • TESTING

    • frontend unit tests

    • VR/snapshot tests

    • storybook examples

  • Done by directors:

    • split the API

    • events and feature flags for new features

  • Moonshots/Would be nice :

    • Every degree

    • Post graduate

    • Full social degree-ing

    • auto degree planning

    • degree adding UI

    • degree profiles (like notangles timetable tabs)

    • guest accounts / no log in mode**

    • allow having failed courses on planner

    • align course data to users start year

Achieve by end of the following Term

Goal

Achieve by end of the following Term

Goal

T1/Subbie Onboarding

degree selector improvements, transcript parser frontend, breakpoints, unilectives integration, context menu

T2

no-degree mode, testing, wider degree support, explore public api & social timetabling (friend support)

T3

social timetabling cont. if it works out, wider degree support, course recommendation

Once finalised, translate these into tickets on Github Issues

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Goals for Leading Subcommittee

  • I LOVE BONDING

    • I LOVE DRINKING

  • Team dynamic

    • good split between tickets and bonding

    • good banter

    • grind sessions every flex weeks

    • in person meetings

    • pairing on larger more indepth tasks

  • outing ideas

    • hitting the pub

    • pool

    • restaurants

    • bowling

    • possible bouldering

  • meetings โ€“ weekly

    • IN PERSON

    • weekly standups if possible; meetings can always be grind seshes

    • retros at end of big features, 1 end of each term

    • ideation sessions once a term

    • flex week grind sessions

    • public confluence minutes

    • decision logs when making decisions about features

  • subcom check-ups

    • actually make it happen

    • bi-termly, can slow down in later terms

    • less engaged people get more reaching out

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