The second week of the Sidehustle portfolio boot camp came with a new project;

We were to create a to-do App that allowed the user to create, update, read, and delete tasks. The peculiar thing about this week's project was that we were to work directly alongside two other tracks in the boot camp; Product design and back-end development track.

As we were the final stage of the process of creating the app, we had to wait for the product design team to design the screens and for the back-end team to give us the necessary API endpoints, unfortunately we were unable to do any work on our project until Friday morning. The time spent waiting was not wasted, we used it in completing our week one project which was lacking some functionality.

We couldn't start anything without the screens from the product design team. On Thursday evening they finally delivered the screens for the todo app, Dotick. It was a 50-screen long figma design and it had way more functionality than necessary. Eager to get on our project for the week even though it was Thursday already, we quickly divided the screens among the available members and dived into work. By Sunday which was supposed to be the day of submission we had made some headway but hadn't gone very far in a bigger-picture sense. We were struggling with a couple of issues like organization and professionalism but we were learning all the time from our mistakes and making efforts to improve and we tackled all issues that arose as a team, we weren't lacking in teamwork.

The submission deadline came and went on Sunday which was the first day of the third week, we didn't have anything significant enough to submit but the team lead had reached out to the officials of the boot camp asking if we could be given some extra time seeing as we only were able to start working on Friday. It seems we were not the only team with such a story as by the time week three projects were dropped, the product design teams, back-end teams and mobile app dev teams were asked to continue to work on their week 2 project.

Immediately we continued to work on the tasks, also during the week we reached out to the product design team and explained to the team lead how the screens they designed were an overdesign as the project we were supposed to build didn't need all of that functionality right now. They adjusted the designs and gave us a lighter version which we were able to implement rather quickly. The back-end team also delivered the necessary APIs and the project was almost done.