Feb 12 2010 after action review

Summary for the week

What did you expect?

• To be confused

  • I am

• To learn enough about OpenMRS that with a modest amount of extra documentation and help, I could build something on top of it to meet my needs.

  • Didn't get as far as I wanted.

• Learn enough to start contributing to OpenMRS.

  • I learned a lot, and I'm pointed in the right directions. I'm getting caught up. And I now have your email addresses. (Generally, yes.)

What can we do better?

• Our choices were good. Examples were helpful.

• I like to see the code happen, and in order, but it would have been nice to have the finished and well documented solution available from the beginning.

• Combine "what did we expect" and "what did we do".

• Patient Notes example was too much at once. Start with one example that we progressively elaborate on each exercise.

• Also, the Patient Notes example had a missing pre-requisite (portlets)

• Having class diagrams and patterns showing how the classes work together

• More about the openmrs tag library

• Be more clear on prerequisites. ("I didn't expect to be that far behind, but as a newbie it was very fast-paced.")