Technical Literacy - Part 3

Exploring technical conversations during Kickoff discussion 5 and 6 (Risk Assessment & Process)

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What’s Already Covered?

In the last two posts of the “Technical Literacy” series, I covered and simplified the technical discussions that generally occur among team members during the Kickoff meeting. We’ve already discussed the following topics:

1. - Vision Discussion

2. - Technical Deep Dive

3. - Design Discussion

4. - Tech Stack Discussion

Today I will talk about the final two topics that are typically part of the Kickoff meetings:

5. Risk Assessment Discussion

6. Process Discussion

To keep things organized, below is a linked list of all the posts that we will cover or have already covered in the series.

1. Kickoff Meeting

   • Vision + Technical Deep Dive

   • Design + Tech Stack

   • Risk Assessment + Process ← This Post

2. Initial backlog creation meeting

3. First Sprint Planning meeting

4. Daily Scrums

5. Review

6. Retrospective

7. Release

Let’s start with the Risk Assessment Discussion.

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Risk Assessment Discussion

In the risk assessment discussion for the iFoodTruck app, the conversation would focus on identifying and strategizing around potential technical risks that could impact the project.

Each team member would contribute insights from their area of expertise, discussing potential challenges and proposing solutions.

The discussion would contain a wide range of topics from:

• frontend design challenges to backend scalability,

• database integrity,

• deployment strategies,

• cloud resilience,

• performance optimization,

• quality assurance,

• mobile device compatibility, and

• security concerns.

The goal would be to create a somewhat detailed risk mitigation plan, ensuring the app's smooth development and launch.