Now that you have a general design and plan for your project, you are now to work on the initial prototype of your project.

For the third Milestone, your group must accomplish the following tasks:

1. Prototype: Build the initial version of your minimum viable product. Although it does not need be feature complete, it must have the following properties:

   • Have technical contributions from all group members.

   • Is usable by all group members.

   • Implement a majority of the goals or features identified in Milestone 2.

2. Process: Continue using the infrastructure configured and setup from Milestone 1. This means that you should be doing the following:

   • Identifying tasks on your issue or project trackers and making progress on them.

   • Contributing to your project's code repository.

   • Filing issues or bug reports as necessary.

   • Communicating via your group's chosen communication channels.

3. Reflection: Consider any adjustments that need to be made as you make progress towards your initial prototype:

   • Is there newly discovered related work that impacts your project?

   • Do you need more or different resources?

   • Is the technology stack you have chosen sufficient or will you need to make changes?

   • What changes (if any) to your architecture are necessary?

   • Will you need to reconsider some of your goals for the MVP?

As you work towards the prototype, you should be following the open source software development model of constant iteration. It may be useful to appoint one person as a gatekeeper of sorts to integrate and coordinate the changes from different developers. The exact management and organization of the project is up to you, however.

Deliverables¶

For this Milestone, your group must demonstrate the initial prototype to the class and instructor via 5 minute video.

1. The group must upload their presentation slides video to their project Google Drive folder (video may be embedded in a slide deck if necessary) by midnight, Friday, March 8.

2. The group must update their website to include an announcement about the progress they have made towards their prototype. This should include screenshots, screencasts, or videos demonstrating the functionality and features of the prototype.

3. The group must continue to use their project issues/project management tools to keep track of the tasks above and assign them to different members of the group. Each person should have ownership of a task, though anyone can contribute. The exact management of the workflow is left up to the group.

4. The group must summarize the work they did for this milestone and enumerate the contributions of each member.

5. The group should be able to identify any unresolved issues or obstacles and to describe the decisions they made.