NOTE This file was generated by Descript 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,410 Hi guys and welcome back. 2 00:00:01,590 --> 00:00:05,190 In this video, let's start by creating a backlog for this project. 3 00:00:05,430 --> 00:00:07,560 That is everything that we can think of that we may want to 4 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,190 do in this project so that once we've got everything written down. 5 00:00:11,190 --> 00:00:14,459 We can then go through and decide what we actually want to do, what 6 00:00:14,459 --> 00:00:17,490 we don't want to do, what we want to edit, or split, et cetera. 7 00:00:17,820 --> 00:00:19,049 Let's do it in this video. 8 00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:19,650 Let's get started. 9 00:00:21,130 --> 00:00:24,869 Here I'm using a tool called Trello to keep track of my backlog. 10 00:00:24,900 --> 00:00:28,830 In Trello, you create a board, which I've got one here called microblog, and 11 00:00:28,830 --> 00:00:31,410 then inside the board, you create lists. 12 00:00:31,470 --> 00:00:34,980 Each list contains cards and you can sort the cards after you've created 13 00:00:34,980 --> 00:00:36,360 a few of them however you want. 14 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:37,529 So I quite like Trello. 15 00:00:37,710 --> 00:00:38,309 It's free. 16 00:00:38,430 --> 00:00:38,970 It's simple. 17 00:00:38,970 --> 00:00:42,780 It's flexible and allows us to do exactly what we want in here. 18 00:00:42,780 --> 00:00:46,800 There's other tools for keeping track of a backlog, like Notion and JIRA but we're 19 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,419 not going to use them in this course. 20 00:00:48,669 --> 00:00:51,489 You can sign up at trello.com and then create a board. 21 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,250 What you want to do whenever you've got this beautiful blank slate of a 22 00:00:56,250 --> 00:01:00,450 new project is you don't want to get too bogged down with writing everything 23 00:01:00,450 --> 00:01:01,620 you can think of at the very start. 24 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:03,840 Instead, focus on big ideas. 25 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,060 Focus on your users and your user stories. 26 00:01:06,179 --> 00:01:08,100 You can then break them down later on. 27 00:01:08,631 --> 00:01:11,421 I'm going to start off by writing the user stories that we decided 28 00:01:11,691 --> 00:01:14,931 in here as different cards over in the product backlog. 29 00:01:15,181 --> 00:01:15,811 There they are. 30 00:01:15,871 --> 00:01:19,471 And once we've got all our big user-focused ideas, we can order 31 00:01:19,471 --> 00:01:22,201 them by what users would want first. 32 00:01:22,261 --> 00:01:25,771 What is going to make the most impact in their lives and 33 00:01:25,771 --> 00:01:27,211 in their use of the product. 34 00:01:27,348 --> 00:01:29,868 So I think my order is going to be that we want to be able to 35 00:01:29,898 --> 00:01:31,428 add new journal entries first. 36 00:01:31,788 --> 00:01:34,218 Then we want to access them using a website. 37 00:01:34,518 --> 00:01:37,728 And finally, we want to be able to see past journal entries. 38 00:01:38,228 --> 00:01:40,838 Noted that this user story here is not really something 39 00:01:40,838 --> 00:01:42,128 that can be done on its own. 40 00:01:42,338 --> 00:01:45,778 It's a description of how users want to interact with our product. 41 00:01:46,168 --> 00:01:46,978 And that's fine. 42 00:01:47,158 --> 00:01:51,028 It means we'll probably have to do it in parallel to a feature centric user story. 43 00:01:51,238 --> 00:01:55,138 Of course we can't make a website with nothing in it so we're going to 44 00:01:55,138 --> 00:01:57,468 do these two stories simultaneously. 45 00:01:57,768 --> 00:02:01,308 In Trello, you can click on a card to access more details. 46 00:02:01,488 --> 00:02:04,368 You can do things like change the text. 47 00:02:04,398 --> 00:02:07,608 You can add a description, you can have comments, if you're working in a team. 48 00:02:07,848 --> 00:02:10,758 You can also add labels and checklists and due dates et cetera. 49 00:02:10,998 --> 00:02:13,788 There's also a powerups that are unfortunately not free, but 50 00:02:13,788 --> 00:02:18,078 they do allow more functionality to be added to these cards. 51 00:02:18,464 --> 00:02:23,084 So I'm going to start by categorising the work into three categories using labels. 52 00:02:23,114 --> 00:02:26,354 I'm going to use the feature bug and technical improvement labels. 53 00:02:26,501 --> 00:02:27,131 At any point. 54 00:02:27,131 --> 00:02:29,281 And if you've got more here, by the way, you can click the wee 55 00:02:29,281 --> 00:02:32,681 pen and delete it, or you can click the pen and change the name. 56 00:02:32,891 --> 00:02:34,751 And then you're going to give your labels names. 57 00:02:34,751 --> 00:02:36,881 I'm using green, red, and purple for this. 58 00:02:37,381 --> 00:02:39,781 So this user story is feature centric so I'm going to give 59 00:02:39,781 --> 00:02:41,631 it the feature tag there. 60 00:02:42,418 --> 00:02:45,748 This one is more of a technical improvement and 61 00:02:45,748 --> 00:02:47,428 this one is again, a feature. 62 00:02:47,928 --> 00:02:51,408 If you're only seeing a small green line and you're not seeing the feature 63 00:02:51,438 --> 00:02:56,728 there, you can press the semicolon key in your keyboard to open that up. 64 00:02:56,728 --> 00:02:58,918 So if I press semicolon, they disappear and if I press 65 00:02:58,918 --> 00:03:01,018 semicolon again the text appears. 66 00:03:01,268 --> 00:03:04,298 We've got the big ideas in here and we know more or less how we want 67 00:03:04,298 --> 00:03:07,658 to get started so now it's time to think a bit more deeply about what 68 00:03:07,658 --> 00:03:11,558 we can get done and finished in a reasonable period of time: a sprint. 69 00:03:12,131 --> 00:03:15,161 When we think about what we can get done and finished in a sprint 70 00:03:15,421 --> 00:03:19,271 is normally the time where we also think how we're going to get it done. 71 00:03:19,771 --> 00:03:22,681 Knowing how much work you can do in a certain amount of 72 00:03:22,681 --> 00:03:23,941 time comes with experience. 73 00:03:23,941 --> 00:03:28,171 So to build this experience up, it can help to size up the cards with a scale 74 00:03:28,171 --> 00:03:30,361 you find comfortable like hours or days. 75 00:03:30,661 --> 00:03:34,141 And that way, when you complete a card, you can review it and see whether you 76 00:03:34,171 --> 00:03:37,051 overestimated or underestimated its size. 77 00:03:37,565 --> 00:03:40,714 I think in a reasonable period of time, which is going to be two weeks, let's say. 78 00:03:40,894 --> 00:03:42,605 We can get the first two stories done. 79 00:03:42,605 --> 00:03:44,045 But that's just my gut feel. 80 00:03:44,524 --> 00:03:45,904 In order to get a better idea. 81 00:03:46,024 --> 00:03:49,834 Let's think about how we're actually going to produce the work.