BREDEX Trainee Blog – Team Project Task Planner

The dungeon crawlers developed by our trainees and dual students were a resounding success. The foundations in programming had now been laid, motivation was high, and everyone was looking forward to the upcoming project. Everything was now in place to gain experience in the first joint team project based on Scrum. This time, Dennis Haumann reports on how this project went and what experiences the trainees and students took away with them.

Let's Plan!

Of course, we were pretty excited at the beginning. Our first joint project was coming up and presented us with many challenges. Thanks to a few internal workshops and the help of the other trainees and dual students, we were well prepared for the weeks ahead. SCRUM, Spring Boot, SQL, and Angular were no longer foreign words to us, but was that enough to get a project off the ground all by ourselves?
The goal of the project was to create a task planner. Similar to the calendars from Google and Microsoft, it should be possible to log in via a login screen and then manage our own appointments on the main page. The project was to be a web application, for which we were to use the software architectures we had learned previously. We used the JavaScript framework Angular for the front end, the open-source framework Spring Boot for the back end, and our colleagues set up MariaDB for storage.
The process was similar to a role-playing game, with two other experienced developers at BREDEX taking on the roles of the customer and the Scrum Master. Once we, the development team, had received the customer’s requirements, we were able to get started right away. In two-week sprints, we implemented as many features as possible and can now proudly present a finished task planner.
At the end of the project, we can say that we have learned a lot. Not only did working in a team teach us a lot, but simulating a real customer also helped us gain a better insight into our future tasks and learn how to deal with various problems.