On 2013-05-10 4:13 PM, "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote: > > 2013/5/10 Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com>: > > Hi everyone! > > > > What tools do you use for a small tasks in Google Summer of Code? I mean > > the tasks like "prepare the working environment", "learn gerrit", "write a > > blogpost", etc.? I thin that bugzilla is too heavy for this purpose. > > Short answer: Google Docs, regular status meetings and a little bit of > discipline should be enough. > > Long answer: > > I was a mentor in several projects. The most successful of them was in > the last few months, and I mentored two students there. It's mostly > done, and they are fixing the last bugs. They are actively studying, > and together they had only about 10 hours a week. > > How did it work? Very simply: We had weekly meetings. Each meeting > began with the students doing a demo of what they achieved. Then we > had a little discussion about where should the project go next and > wrote a list of tasks for the next week in a shared Google doc. We > were just adding more and more tasks to the end. We tried to stick to > it and check that the tasks were completed in the beginning of the > next meeting, and marking completed tasks as "done". And so on. > > This way of management was inspired by the Agile management > methodology, though it doesn't follow it precisely. The Agile > principles that we tried to follow were: > 1. As much as possible, letting the developers (the students) > participate in the planning their own work and deciding what needs to > be done. > 2. Breaking the work into small and clearly defined tasks. This > includes all work-related tasks: both actual coding, as well as stuff > around it, such as "signing documents", "opening accounts", "learning > Objective-C", "uploading to AppStore" etc. > 3. Making a long-term plan, but being ready to change it along the way. > > Trello was mentioned in one of the emails here. I didn't try it, but > it may be good; It sounds like the kind of thing that was meant for > this kind of task management. But honestly, if a Google doc works for > you, don't work too hard to find something more complicated. > > If the student you are mentoring has more than 5 hours a week, you'll > probably want to do the meetings more frequently than once a week. > > That's about it. > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
One nice thing about wiki pages over google docs is that interested third parties can see what is going on (which I would consider a good thing) -bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
