planning-things-is-hard.md

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slide-deck	Planning things is hard	A few small rules for communicating with teammates while working on software & design projects.	type content super-big-text **<del>Naming</del> Planning things is hard** content ## What & why When planning & delegating tasks on teams it’s very helpful to break the problem down into small, manageable chunks that individual team members can achieve. We need to start finding at all the small features inside large software projects—to help plan our Sprints. **Breaking down problems into their smallest pieces is helpful for planning—and coincidentally coding.** type content big-text ## Set up 1. Form into your teams 2. Get some paper or a document online to take notes 3. Plan everything you need to accomplish this week 4. Write the task list down to copy into GitHub later *The teacher will come around to help guide and finalize the tasks before moving them into GitHub Issues* content ## Process - Think about all the things you need to accomplish on your project for the upcoming Sprint - Break the tasks into small chunks that can be assigned to individual teammates - Consider if some of those tasks have multiple steps and would benefit from a to-do list **The smaller the tasks the better—each team member should have multiple tasks assigned to them**