Labs Learners Guide

👋 Welcome to Labs!

This guide contains information, policies, and guidelines specific to Labs. You should still refer to and comply with all of the information, policies, and guidelines in the Lambda School Learner Guide. For example, the Lambda School Attendance Policies & Time Off and the Code of Conduct do still apply and must be adhered to while in Labs.

You should bookmark this page as it will be very useful for you during your time in Labs.

Please be aware that infrastructure components for Labs projects will not be maintained after you complete Labs. This includes online servers and domain names. You should expect your application to either stop working or drastically change (as new teams continue to make enhancements) soon after your Labs session ends. All learner-developed source code is released under the MIT license, so if you want or need to your application to be running after Labs, you can fork the repository and deploy to the infrastructure of your choosing.

Please do not link to your Labs project on your resume as those links will likely be broken soon after Labs ends!

See the FAQ in the ‣ section for more details.

Team Resources

Documents to help your team succeed in Labs

Trello in Labs

  • How you'll use Trello for project management

Stakeholder Meetings

  • A guide to ensuring a productive stakeholder meeting

Engineering Architecture Checklist

  • A checklist to ensure your engineering architecture is sound and complete

Pull Request Template

  • A template for your team to use to create helpful pull requests

Pull Request Rubric

  • A rubric to use when evaluating how you're team is doing with pull-requests

Searchlight Peer Reviews

  • All about the Student Peer Review program

Sprint Checklist

  • Crucial items when you're close to the finish line each sprint!

Learner Resources

Documents to help you succeed in Labs

Labs Learner Glossary

  • A glossary of terms you'll hear in Labs

Team Standups

  • How do I stay in the know?

Roles in Labs

  • Specialize in a real industry role

Labs PR Videos

  • Walk through your work with every pull request

Labs Guided Projects

  • Special live sessions with staff

Job Search Learner Profile FAQ

  • What you need to know about your Learner Profile

Labs Roundtable

  • All you need to know about Labs Roundtable

Is my Labs project part of my professional portfolio?

  • One of our most frequently asked questions

Critique Sessions

A list of the critique sessions that will take place during Labs

Sprint Kickoffs

Labs Managers meet with TPMs on each product near the start of each sprint to review and critique the sprint scope they've set for their team.

PR Critiques

An Engineering Manager walks through a few representative pull requests as case studies once per sprint.

Design Critiques

Design Leads meet with the Design Manager at least once per sprint to present design planning for group discussion.

Product Reviews

All teams on each product and that product's TPMs meet with Labs managers near the end of each sprint to present progress, blockers, and a path forward.

Labs Manager Directory

Who you gonna call?

If you need technical support from a Labs Manager, you can use the daily pulse check module in Canvas or you can contact specific managers as outlined below

Support Hotline

24/7 Hotline support for emotional distress: 1-800-273-8255 (TALK)

Note: I called them, they are here to talk, to listen, and help people find local resources for dealing with suicide crises, suicidal ideation and any kind of emotional distress. The representative I spoke with recommended not being cautious with referring people to them, and made a point to reassure that asking if someone is considering self-harm is not a trigger for them to cause self-harm.

Online Chat: http://chat.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx

Crisis Text Line: Text "START" to 741-741

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