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Sprint 10 - Mentor meeting

  • Date: April 28th, 2026

Agenda

  • High-level status report from each team member
  • Refactoring decision outcome
  • Reflection and commitment process
  • End-of-semester presentation logistics

Current status mentor comments

  • Mentor flagged our project as one of three he's concerned about — not clear where we're targeting
  • Dashboard activity dropped sharply after MoSP and only picked up recently
  • Team admits they "stopped working for a while" after MoSP and lost momentum
  • Hilali stuck for over a week on the GitHub runner not pulling jobs on the third VM — should have asked for help sooner
  • Email/SMTP password issue with university IT: better to physically visit the IT person than wait on Telegram tickets
  • General point: if a problem takes more than ~1 week, escalate or delegate

Refactoring decision

  • Estimated cost of refactoring Flutter → React: ~30-40 hours, plus high risk of new bugs
  • Refactoring would only pay off if we had ~20+ mobile tasks coming up, which we don't
  • Decision: keep Flutter for this semester; refactoring would be overkill given the small mobile workload
  • This justification will go into the end-of-semester presentation

Retrospectives and commitment

  • We don't really do formal retros; reflection happens informally and rarely produces concrete improvements
  • The last full team meeting only happened because we forced it — meetings have been getting skipped
  • We prioritize other courses/jobs over the project too often
  • Tasks get assigned but completion isn't enforced — "no consequences" if someone doesn't finish
  • Agreed rule: every member commits to ≥10 hours of clearly-described tasks per sprint, tasks split if longer than ~3 hours
  • Whoever doesn't complete their committed tasks buys pizza for the team

End-of-semester presentation

  • Date: May 12th, all 5 mentors will be grading
  • Format: 20 min presentation + 20 min Q&A + 5 min client feedback (45 min total)
  • Clients will be invited; mentor will share criteria document
  • Plan should reflect changes from the original — show how it adapted, not just what it is now
  • Peer evaluation form will be shared in May, completed before the presentation

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