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API Integration and Agile Business simulation game in Task force

Ntwari Egide — Sun, 03 Oct 2021 09:49:22 +0000

Today, we are closing week 5 in the task force, this week was very different to all other 4 weeks we've covered.

This week started with improving the ShowApp project. We wanted to add functionality of cropping image upload which was tough but educational. In the afternoon APIs for the LOT dashboard were ready, so we started integrating APIs.

It was tough because APIs were not working well, so it took us time to know how we could integrate. It was also educational because of learning new things like Google Auths with Firebase.

In soft skills, this week we did Agile simulation game which was fun bug educative.
I wanted to try new things because I used to be a scrum master, so I wanted to try being a Software Consultant from RISA.
Being a software consultant was very difficult because It was tough to convince the Team to make sure that they followed the rules from RISA.
I learned to talk to teams, making them understand what I want, making sure that they have the best DONE deliverable at the end of the sprint.

I also enjoyed working with the best team: scrum master, scrum team. I also noticed how it is not easy to be scrum master because in the sprint retrospective you have to be ready for questions.

This week, we also implemented a game in the codewars session. It was important because It made me understand how important it is to understand every detail of a problem to solve.

On Friday we had a brainstorming session, our team also discussed Problem breakdown and we came up with the solution to help in the process of vaccination for children in Rwanda.

In conclusion, this week was tough but educational because we tried new things.
See you next week :)

Complex UI implementations and Soft skills Takeaways in week 4

Ntwari Egide — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 09:59:56 +0000

Today is the end of week 4 of task force 3.0 at Awesomity Lab and Code Of Africa, this week was very energetic and fantastic.

We started the week with Lionel, reviewing our work on LOT dashboard implementation. I enjoyed talking to other group members, discussing challenges and how to fix them.
On the next day, we continued with complex UI implementations. We had to build the Show App Application which was not difficult because we already knew how to fix bugs that appeared because we did a LOT dashboard implementation.

We had a session with Mutombo who was reviewing our codes, we learnt about Good practices in UI implementations.
In soft skills, we learnt about User persona in Design thinking with Olaf, User Persona is a detailed real or hypothetical description of a typical end-user of the product the team is developing. Personas usually take the form of a written document with a photo, name, profession, style of living, and other important details.

We also studied about Client communication in Agile World, we learned basics on Agile Methodology and its frameworks including Scrum and Kanban, the session was very interesting.

We also studied Time Management with Braise. Even though I missed the session, it was very interesting. I read documents shared so I learned a lot.

In soft skills, everything was not hard because I did scrum master certificate, All soft skills sessions were about brainstorming.

This week was interesting, it prepared us to be ready for agile teams and companies. I am expecting to be in the Top most front end developers in Agile World at the end of this taskforce.
See you next week :)

Weekly journal for week 3 in Bootcamp

Ntwari Egide — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:14:17 +0000

Third week was very tough because this is when actual bootcamp started.

Actual bootcamp started in this third week, everything was very difficult.

In soft skills we started about stress and resilience, in our software engineering career the most dominating problem is stress, coders need to know about resilience so that they can recover from that stress.

Also we studied about talking to our future self, if everyone in the world can be able to talk to himself in the future, everything will be changed. Talking to our future self is to connect your 3 selves: past, present, future, then you come up with the best ideal solution.

Also we studied Critical Thinking. We usually give solution which comes firs in our mind which is bad because we need to ask ourselves 5 whys in order to understand the root cause of the problem we need to solve.

In coding skills, we started the week with a task of building 2 pages which was hard because we were to deliver them the next day. Also we had to build the 15 dashboards and we delivered them on Friday. so this coding part was very tough, we learned how to use reusable components and using Ant Design which is mostly used in Awesomity and Code Of Africa.
In addition, at the end of week, I was done with those dashboards, so my weekend was good because I learnt new things which are going to help me in these remaining weeks.

In conclusion, Actual bootcamp started this week. I want to complete six weeks journey so that at the end I will be able to do coding with the best soft skills.

Week 2 in Task force at awesomity and Code of Africa

Ntwari Egide — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 18:11:44 +0000

Tough, puissant, influential, dominant, long, energizing week, that is all I can say on this second week in Task force 3.0 at Awesomity and code of Africa.

How?, on Monday we had a course with Yannick CTO @awesomity of git workflow, which was different from my poor practices. I learned many things to improve. In the afternoon we learned more about virtual meeting etiquette which was about how to prepare yourself before, in, after meeting.

Wait … no game ? Yeah, we had a game of lifting a stick with one finger which was tough at first, but easy after knowing the method to use.

Ok, continue, We had a soft skills session with Axel about CoA values. I learned that before joining a company it is better to understand their values because you should know how the company lives day by day. We also learned intercultural communication with Anja which made me realise that I know the audience before using gestures and how cultures can affect someone in the workspace.

No coding? Oooh, we did some tough but easy codewars, with Yannick we learned about containerizing, dockerization, documentation which was good to know because When I was a scrum master of 30 people at school it was hard to manage them, but today it can be easy because of what I learned with Yannick.

In conclusion, This week was tough because we had to deliver a presentation on Friday, I had many things to say which made me not realize about time, I used 14min...Ooh instead of 4 min. Anyway I wish to become best in both soft and coding skills at the end of this 6 weeks program.

Week 1 task-force-3

Ntwari Egide — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 19:49:13 +0000

Week 1 task force at awesomity lab and code of africa

This week was good because I made new friends and mates which is the coolest thing in this week ever.
On my first day, We had a game of putting an egg on top of the bottle which was tough, but we did it.
We had a good introduction from both awesomity and code of africa team members. It was my first time to do a 16 personalities test which made me discover and realize many things about me.

Let's talk about soft skills, we learned many things including presentation delivering, communication,... In the presentation, It was a little bit challenging because we knew that actual presentation slides occupy 7% of what remains in the audience's mind.
In communication we learnt that a good one has 3 parts: intro,main, end and at the end of each part there should be a question. We had many examples and plays related to that topic which was cool.

What about coding skills, we learnt about user stories which are a unit of agile framework about explaining features from the user's perspective. I was able to build user stories related to my app(Yombi app) which made me realize that there are many things to change.
We learnt to build the best front end pages related to user stories we've developed.

Did you have fun with the team ? Yeah, on Friday afternoon, we had a game with awesomity team which was the funniest thing ever. After the game,everyone was saying : Oooooh my ribs !!!!!!!. We beat an awesome team which was tough to win against an experienced team. We had drinks and chocolate to eat. Funny thing was that I was the only one who drank soda, others were drinking beers except me which amazed me so much.

What I expect at the end of this 6 weeks program, I want to be not only good but best front end developer who can work in any team across the world, I want to get paid so that I can support my startup growth, I believe that one time I will be sharing stories of how I built my startup to be the best not only in Africa but in the world.