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Welcome to WDCC (Website development and consulting club), a non-profit university club. We understand the difficulty for students to apply the knowledge they learn in university to real-world industries. Therefore, two students at the University of Auckland, Will Zhang and Lucas Gao, founded this club in 2019.
We are a project-oriented club focusing on website development. We develop websites and systems for our clients. Our projects are open to all students regardless of your previous experience. To help students improve their skills and gain more benefits from the projects, we also hold workshops.
Open discussion is highly encouraged in the club, no matter if you are a beginner in website development or a senior with many years of working experience, we want to hear from you. Please speak up when you have a new idea or think something can be improved. There is no small ideas or stupid questions.
If you think something can be improved, or unhappy with something, communicate with your leader, your project manager or any executive members. We try our best to ensure everyone has a good experience.
Always show respect to our people. You may work with someone who has a completely different experience or cultural background, please be polite and show respect to everyone.
Be creative and don’t be afraid of making mistakes Everyone makes mistakes, it is ok to not be perfect and make mistakes. If you have a creative idea, discuss it with your team members and try it. Don’t hesitate to ask for help when you make mistakes, we will be with you to solve it together.
We use Scrum in all our projects: At the beginning of each sprint, we will have a one-hour sprint planning + sprint refining. At the end of each sprint, there is a sprint retro. Depending on the outcome of this sprint, there may be a development demo and we will invite our clients to come as well. There may also be a sprint review for the project manager to have a look at the team progress.
All stories are managed in Jira (Atlassian). Our Atlassian domain is wdcc-aspa.atlassian.net.
Slack is a tool that most companies use, so it is also our main tool for communication, make sure you ask your team leader/project manager which channel you should join.
Our channel is hosted at wdcc-uoa.slack.com.
We also use a Facebook group to provide inter-project updates around how all WDCC backed projects are progressing, sharing milestones and successes within the wider community. It is also here that personnel updates (i.e. new project members wanted in different teams) are advertised. Contact the WDCC team to be apart of this community.
We will have a team meeting every week (time to be arranged). We highly encourage everyone to come, if you can’t make sure let your leader/manager know before and finish your story on your own time.
You may need to spend some time on your own to finish the story assigned to you, if you have any problems with this, please let your leader/manager know.
If you think you don’t have enough time to finish your story, let your leader/manager know and please give us some time to find someone else to take your story. We understand that everyone can be super busy sometimes, but please let us know at least three days before the next team meeting.
