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Monday, September 16th

Monday, September 16th

Class hours: 9:40 – 2:05
Mr. Bohmann
wbohmann@ewsd.org

Notes

  • CCV Follow up – Attendance Check-in at front lobby – Required
  • CTE T-Shirt Assembly is October 8th. Looking for a student speaker to introduce our program and say what we do. I will help you with the wording. Volunteers?
  • Open House – Thursday – starts at 6pm. Bring your parents 6-8pm
  • Physics with Ms. Liguori. Class meets in room m117 at 11am. Go to class immediately from break. When class is over, you will head to lunch.

9:40 Attendance & Article

9:45 Agile Project Management with Scrum & Kanban

image of KanBan board
KanBan Board

Today’s modern office setting, especially in the technology, production and design fields, is based on solid project management practices. Companies like Dealer, EASports, Zynga, Google, General Motors all work in teams specifically formed for specific project purposes. Their goal is to deliver ideas to market in the shortest amount of time with the greatest amount of user satisfaction. How do they do it? – Simple – Project Management

Definition: The Agile Approach
Practice that enables teams to produce high quality work and complete projects early and often. The proven standard for software development.

Today we’ll look at one framework called Scrum and use a tool to help complete our activities – called Kanbanchi.

Activity – AirForce Airplane Factory – Instructions will be provided.

Quality Control Report

10:45 Break (15 Minutes)

coffee and cookies

11:00 – 12:10 Physics – Room m117

cartoon Graphic of Albert Einstein

Class meets in room m117 at 11am. Go to class immediately from break. When class is over, you will head to lunch.

12:10 Lunch (30 Minutes)

pizza

12:40 – 1:05 Literacy in Focus

image of book covers

Grab your book and chill. We’ll be reading today. No computers, no talking. Sit on the couch if you like or move your chair.

1:05 Site Maintenance and….

This is a good time to:

  • Check/Clean up School email
  • Check your PowerSchool grades for all classes
  • Review the “What is Due” under the assignment archive and finish any assignments that are due for Tuesday

Activity: Kanbanchi
Sign-in to Kanbanchi using your Google account (purple button)
Create a KanBan board for (some suggestions to work with):

  • Portfolio requirements as outlined by Champlain College
  • College Application process
  • Personal project
  • School project

The point of this activity is to get familiar with the tools available for breaking down a large project into small deliverables. Break your Kanban board into 3 columns: To Do, In Progress, Complete. Begin to create your To Do’s (also called Project Backlog) on your board.

Share you KanBan board with me (wbohmann@ewsd.org)


Continue with your Visual Resume – Example from last week

2:00 Dailies

Link to Dailies and Link to Responses

2:05 Dismissal

Cawd Instructors:

Matt Cronin

Will Bohmann

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A little about Cawd:

Serving high school students interested in Computer Animation, Game Design, and Web Development in North Western Vermont.

Students continue at:

University of Vermont Ringling School of Art and Design Northeastern University Rochester Institute of Technology Concordia University

Students find careers at:

Dealer.com Union Street Media Rovers North Prudential Investments DockYard
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