📅 Day-plan
Transforming Requirements to Solution Design
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🧒 18 and under
Learning Objectives
This game can be played with small or larger groups. It is a great way to get to know each other and to discover hidden skills of your peers.
- Set a timer for 10 minutes
- Ask all participants to form a circle
- Ask one person to volunteer to share an interesting or funny story that happened to them before they turned 18 for 1 minute
- Once this person has gone, they should choose someone else to speak
- Keep this going until the timer runs out
Demo
Learning Objectives
At CYF we expect you to demo your work to the class. You must have many opportunities to practice how to clearly and simply explain your work to others. This is really important skill as a business analyst.
⏰ Timekeeper
The timekeeper will keep the groups on track.
Split randomly into groups of no more than 4 people. Mix up your teams. Each person will have 10 minutes to demo the work they did on the previous prep to the group. After the demo, the group will ask questions or give feedback for 5 minutes. Then the next person will demo their work.
🧑🏼🎓 Trainees
1. Demo
You will demo the work you did for this sprint as if you were presenting it to Brighsparks stakholders.
You will have 10 minutes to explain run the stakeholders through your findings and logic behind it.
2. Feedback
After the demo, the group will give you feedback for up to 5 minutes. Someone from the group might act as one of the main stakeholders and ask questions.
💡 Tips:
- Practice the format of demos before class.
- Keep it simple. Don’t try to show everything you did. Just show enough so it makes sense and shows progress.
- Keep it short. 10 minutes is enough.
- Explain what you did and why.
- Show the artifcats you created
- Ask for feedback.
Rubric
These are some criteria we will be using to assess your demo. You must meet 5 of the 6 criteria, and if you skip one we recommend you skip asking a question. This is not an ordered list - you can complete these criteria in any order.
- Clearly introduce the topic to the stakeholders (aka the group).
- Someone watching should be able to approve the next steps.
The topic must not be "I will tell you about my hard work". It must be about how you, as a Business anayst, evaluated and used the knowledge you acquired. - Explain what was done
- Someone watching should be able to state what you have done in one sentence.
- Explain the reasoning behind a choice.
- Someone watching should be able to explain why you did at least one thing a particular way (and why it was a better choice than alternatives).
- Show relevant artifacts (e.g. business mapping, data mapping, user story).
- Someone watching should be able to identify at least one artifact of your work. Slides don't count as an artifact.
- Stick to your time limit.
- You should know how long you have for your demo, and stick to that time. You will be given a warning when you're running low on time.
- Get buy in.
- The stakeholders should leave your presentation satisfied with the outcome and direction.
🫖 Morning Break
A quick break of fifteen minutes so we can all concentrate on the next piece of work.
Demo
Learning Objectives
At CYF we expect you to demo your work to the class. You must have many opportunities to practice how to clearly and simply explain your work to others. This is really important skill as a business analyst.
⏰ Timekeeper
The timekeeper will keep the groups on track.
Split randomly into groups of no more than 4 people. Mix up your teams. Each person will have 10 minutes to demo the work they did on the previous prep to the group. After the demo, the group will ask questions or give feedback for 5 minutes. Then the next person will demo their work.
🧑🏼🎓 Trainees
1. Demo
You will demo the work you did for this sprint as if you were presenting it to Brighsparks stakholders.
You will have 10 minutes to explain run the stakeholders through your findings and logic behind it.
2. Feedback
After the demo, the group will give you feedback for up to 5 minutes. Someone from the group might act as one of the main stakeholders and ask questions.
💡 Tips:
- Practice the format of demos before class.
- Keep it simple. Don’t try to show everything you did. Just show enough so it makes sense and shows progress.
- Keep it short. 10 minutes is enough.
- Explain what you did and why.
- Show the artifcats you created
- Ask for feedback.
Rubric
These are some criteria we will be using to assess your demo. You must meet 5 of the 6 criteria, and if you skip one we recommend you skip asking a question. This is not an ordered list - you can complete these criteria in any order.
- Clearly introduce the topic to the stakeholders (aka the group).
- Someone watching should be able to approve the next steps.
The topic must not be "I will tell you about my hard work". It must be about how you, as a Business anayst, evaluated and used the knowledge you acquired. - Explain what was done
- Someone watching should be able to state what you have done in one sentence.
- Explain the reasoning behind a choice.
- Someone watching should be able to explain why you did at least one thing a particular way (and why it was a better choice than alternatives).
- Show relevant artifacts (e.g. business mapping, data mapping, user story).
- Someone watching should be able to identify at least one artifact of your work. Slides don't count as an artifact.
- Stick to your time limit.
- You should know how long you have for your demo, and stick to that time. You will be given a warning when you're running low on time.
- Get buy in.
- The stakeholders should leave your presentation satisfied with the outcome and direction.
🍽️ Community Lunch
Every Saturday we cook and eat together. We share our food and our stories. We learn about each other and the world. We build community.
This is everyone’s responsibility, so help with what is needed to make this happen, for example, organising the food, setting up the table, washing up, tidying up, etc. You can do something different every week. You don’t need to be constantly responsible for the same task.
🛗 Study Group
Learning Objectives
What are we doing now?
You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.
Use this time wisely
You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:
- work through the coursework
- ask questions and get unblocked
- give and receive code review
- work on your portfolio
- develop your own projects
🫖 Afternoon Break
Please feel comfortable and welcome to pray at this time if this is part of your religion.
If you are breastfeeding and would like a private space, please let us know.
🛗 Study Group
Learning Objectives
What are we doing now?
You’re going to use this time to work through coursework. Your cohort will collectively self-organise to work through the coursework together in your own way. Sort yourselves into groups that work for you.
Use this time wisely
You will have study time in almost every class day. Don’t waste it. Use it to:
- work through the coursework
- ask questions and get unblocked
- give and receive code review
- work on your portfolio
- develop your own projects
🎉 Wrap
You are done for the day. Take a moment to reflect on what you have learned and achieved.
Stand in a circle and share:
- 📛 your name
- 💪🏽 one thing you achieved today
- 👷🏾 the task you are going to work on next
- 🛟 one thing you need help with
Give yourselves a round of applause. Now you have earned your rest. Usually people go for a cup of tea or a pint after class. You are welcome to join and wind down together.