Group task 21 – Scrum planning

On last Friday we had a Scrum meeting where we selected a Scrum master for this sprint and discussed future tasks and everyone’s parts in doing these tasks. We’ve also updated these tasks to Trello, which we use to keep track of our project.

In short, the tasks are as follows:

Sami, Matti and Rami – Raspberry Pi, sensors and NB-IoT connection

Patrik, Jan, Pyry and Anastasiia - Programming

Ife, Minh and Eetu – Machine Learning and Azure

Jan will also be our scrum master for this sprint.

The main outcomes of the week were already covered in the week report, where you can find more about how our week went.

Week Report - Week 4 - Progress!

On Tuesday we finally made some progress with the Raspberry Pi and the sensors, as we got some readings from the sensors! Next, we need to decide how to store the data, and more importantly how to get it transferred over the internet. We still have some problems with the cellular connection, as we can’t get the connection working. We think there might be a problem with the data subscription, but we need to investigate that further.

Thursday we had a PO meeting, which was also attended by some representatives from the city of Turku. We will have another blog post going slightly more in depth on the details of the meeting, but in short, the city of Turku has a similar project to that of ours, and we will be comparing results and other differences between our sensors and theirs.

On Friday’s meeting we discussed the PO meeting, and how we should move on from here. Unfortunately, Matti was sick and since he had the Pi and the sensors, we couldn’t do much practical work. We did review some of the code we used to get the sensors working and created a GitHub repository for working on the code.

This week we also got a brand-new team member, Anastasiia! It’s hard to bring in new people when the project has already been going on for a while, but we did our best to get her up to date with all the stuff we’ve been doing and added her to all of our workspaces.

Week report - Week 3 - Pitch review

First blog post of the decade!

This week was the pitching week and our pitch was held by Matti. The pitching went alright despite Matti losing his train of thought towards the end of the pitch. Luckily the slideshow was easy to follow. Sadly, we didn’t make the pitching finals but overall the group was content with the results.

Now that pitching is over and done with, we can start focusing on our project full force. We set a PO-meeting with us and representatives from the City of Turku for Thursday next week. We also have been working on reviewing code made by past groups and have been hard at work with getting our NBIOT device to work and the connection running.

Our peer review groups for the pitching were Jameshaft and Jobitti. Here is our comments on the groups:

Jameshaft

The slides maybe had a bit too much text, but otherwise the presentation was good. Speech was well delivered and captivating. Ending the presentation with a slogan was a nice touch.

Jobitti

A well-rehearsed and captivating presentation. Speech was clear and understandable and delivered well. The start of the presentation immediately caught your interest and had you listening through the whole presentation. Could have more slides to have a visual representation of the project as well.