Basie Blog

We’ve spend a meeting talking about grading schemes, and while everyone liked Bill’s role oriented grading scheme, it still required some tuning to be more inline with what other teams were doing. So here’s the one for the IRC duo: Andrew and Tony.

20% — Participation

IRC meeting attendance, blog articles, comments, mailing-list. Generally about engaging in meaningful discussion with the Basie team, and providing constructive content.

40% — Work

All the code contributions: committed code, ReviewBoard revisions, tests. Assigning oneself and keeping up with tasks.

30% — “Team Citizenship”

We all liked the concept of “team citizenship” from the Turning Student Groups into Effective Teams (PDF) paper; my interpretation of such includes peer-reviewing code on ReviewBoard, providing constructive feedback, helping out where-ever possible, and generally contributing to the well-being of the team. (Bonus points for finishing the term on still-speak-to-each-other basis go here.)

10% — ScreenCast

If we do nothing else this term, but talk about it, this is the component to mark. We’ll put together a short demo of what we’ve done over the term, how it works, and how awesome it looks.