After what seemed like a long onboarding and sorting boot campers into teams, the Side Hustle 5.0 cohort Boot camp finally began on Monday, June 6th, with a task to choose and build a frontend clone for a landing page, sign up and register page. We were given 5 website options to choose from, and without further ado, "portfolio-frontend-react-team-1" members swung into action with a meeting on Google Meet to select a team lead, decide on a website to clone and also assign tasks to members.
Here's a formal report of how the team collaborated to clone the Barter website as put together by the Team Lead.
TEAM REPORT(Week 1)
Portfolio Frontend React JS Team 1 Side Hustle Cohort 5.0 Bootcamp
TEAM MEMBERS. Below is a table showing the team members of Portfolio React JS Team-1 , their tag name on the slack channel and their position.
INTRODUCTION It is said that the Journey of a thousand mile begins with a step, well the Journey of the next 6 weeks in the life of the Portfolio React JS Team-1 members starts with a clone. Join me as I take you through the journey of our survival in the first week of Side Hustle Cohort 5.0. Portfolio Bootcamp.
It all began on Monday, 7th June 2022, when we were all added into our respective Portfolio teams by @drey , the channel moderator for Side Hustle Cohort 5.0. The portfolio teams are basically required to work on 6 different projects to be added to their portfolio at the end of the bootcamp.
I was added to Portfolio React JS Team-1 with 10 other members. We all started by introducing ourselves and subsequently getting to know each other better. After being placed in our various teams on Monday evening, we were instructed to choose a team lead and assistant amongst ourselves.
We had a meeting anchored by Victor Mathias and in the course of the meeting, Mohammed Al-Hameen was nominated Team Lead, with Victor Mathias as his assistant. Grace Effiong was selected as the GitHub Specialist and Lola Ojo-Ade as the Hashnode Specialist.
TASK FOR WEEK 1 Below is the Task for the Frontend Track Week 1;
FRONTEND WEB DEVELOPMENT Build a frontend clone for any of these Landing pages, sign up, and register page Piggyvest Kuda Barter (+Student Ambassador Page) Cowry wise Side Hustle Requirements Mobile responsiveness Form validation 80% compliance to design
TASK HANDLING BY TEAM In order to work on our task and finish it up before the deadline, we scheduled a meeting to decide which app we were cloning, how to go about it and how the task would be shared.
The meeting took place on Google meet by 9PM WAT. Below are the Meeting Key points.
MEETING KEYPOINT FOR Monday, 6th June, 2022. 9PM WAT. Good evening, Team. The minutes of the meeting are as follows: • Team Lead is @Al-hameen Mohammed • Assistant Team Lead @vhickjr • GitHub specialists @Ruby • Hash node Documenters and Bloggers @TechHeadLola and @vhickjr The meeting started at 9.05pm and ended at 10.30pm WAT with five people in attendance as follows: @Al-hameen Mohammed @Ruby @TechHeadLola @vhickjr @Sofiritari Amgbara Below are the meeting resolutions:
• We are cloning the Barter app; barter.me • @vhickjr would work on the login page @Al-hameen Mohammed would work on the create account page.
FOR THE LANDING PAGE @Sofiritari Amgbara would be working on the header and footer. Other team members are welcome to join him in completing the landing page.
FOR THE STUDENT AMBASSADOR PAGE: @Ruby and @TechHeadLola are working on the page together. Other members of the team are welcome to join them.
DEADLINE. As we all know, the deadline for the project is on Friday, 10th June, 2022. The team has decided that we are to complete our project by Thursday, 9th June, 2022.
PRESENTATION. Kindly note that there will be a team presentation on the team's chosen deadline date and everyone would be expected to present their part of the project and also explain how they achieved it.
GITHUB. A team has been created on GitHub by @Ruby with the name; Portfolio-React-Team1 A repository for our first project has also been created with the name "barter-clone" The react application is being created and will be ready tomorrow unfailingly. Closing Note. Thank you to everyone that participated in the meeting. It was a productive one.
Best Regards, Mohammed Al-hameen A.M.O. Team Lead.
Having shared the tasks, it was time for work to begin in earnest. It is good to note that Great Amubode later worked on the Landing page alongside Sofiritari Amgbara; while Abubakar Sodiq worked on the Student Ambassador Page with Grace and Lola.
CLONED BARTER APP
Our project is live on the netlify link below. Kindly Check it out. Cloned Barter App
Fair enough, we did our best. I mean to be honest we actually did well, but of course, there is room for improvements. We will continue to edit and make necessary changes and refactoring.
Some pictures of our work
Here are some pictures of the original website placed side by side with our work.
I know what you want to say right, you are Mesmerized! Well, you had to be!
> Team Members share their thoughts about this first project.>
CONCLUSION
Our journey so far has been like that of a group of sailors in a submarine with little or no food, charting the vast unknown. In order for us to achieve our set out objectives, we had to build our relationship with one another on three core values - Trust, Teamwork and diligence; values I am happy my team holds dear.
As they say, “a chain is only as weak as its weakest link.” Well, that saying is only true if we don’t try to turn our weaknesses into strengths. As Iyanla Vanzant would say, “The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help someone else get it first.” As the team Lead of this group, I’m proud to say we all cherish that saying in the team.
Never forget the words of Helen Keller that says, “alone we can do little, together we can do so much.” That has been our success story.
I leave you with the words of Howard Schultz, “Success is best when shared.” Don't forget, Team work, Trust and diligence is all it takes. Till we meet again on the next task. Bye!