This marked a major transition in my internship journey — from learning individual tools to planning the actual product we’re going to build: Lura, a Lawyer Management System.
🔑 Key Lessons:
You can’t build what you haven’t imagined.
Today made it clear: planning is not just “extra work” — it’s the blueprint for everything that comes next.
We brainstormed our core feature set:
- Case and document management
- Workspace-based organization
- Secure user roles: Lawyer, Admin, Super Admin
- AI-powered chatbot support
- Calendar events and tagging system
We sketched basic wireframes to visualize the interface — nothing fancy, just rectangles and arrows, but incredibly useful.
We drafted an initial Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD) to define how data would be structured and linked — especially between workspaces, users, cases, and documents.
We set up our first GitHub backlog using GitHub Projects — creating issues for Sprint 1, labeling them by feature (auth, layout, case management), and assigning rough estimates.
✅ Takeaways:
- Design before code helps you avoid technical debt later.
- Everyone on the team understood the vision after just one planning session — proof that communication is half the battle.
- I felt more ownership now that we’ve put structure around the product.
❓Question:
Do you usually map out your database schema and features before you code, or do you prefer to iterate as you go?
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