Reflection 7: Todo, Doing, Done

Reflection 7: Todo, Doing, Done

This semester, we didn’t just “build a student tool.” We shipped Mathiné—and learned the hard truth that adoption isn’t about features alone; it’s about access. If a product lives outside a student’s normal workflow, even great work gets ignored – not because it...
Reflection 6: The Final Bow

Reflection 6: The Final Bow

This sprint made one thing clear: adoption depends on access. Even with strong features, students won’t consistently use Mathiné if it sits outside their normal workflow. Based on student feedback, we shifted toward a Brightspace course shell to meet students where...
Reflection 5: We See the Light

Reflection 5: We See the Light

In this playback, we finally started to see Mathiné look like the tool we imagined back in September. Our to-do list went from a wall of “someday” items to a series of checked boxes: the refreshed landing page, shared calendars, assignment auto-population from...
Reflection 4: Locked In

Reflection 4: Locked In

This sprint, we shifted from “building features” to “building habits” – for our users and for ourselves. With exams looming, we leaned into study-season realities: clearer flows and community touchpoints that make Mathiné feel like a teammate, not another tab....
Reflection 3: Over the Bridge, Together!

Reflection 3: Over the Bridge, Together!

Over the past sprint, we tightened our engineering habits, deepened our campus partnerships, and turned hackathon sparks into production-ready features – while threading the needle on privacy and deployment inside UVic’s ecosystem. Same crew, same energy, just a...
Reflection 2: Full Speed Ahead

Reflection 2: Full Speed Ahead

Welcome Back. After working through all of the setup and troubleshooting steps last sprint, we were able to hit the ground running for sprint two! For our second sprint, we had two main priorities. First, we wanted to get the word out about Mathiné by giving...