T-76.650 Software Engineering Seminar Agile Software Development 3 credit units

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T-76.650 Software Engineering SeminarAgile
Software Development3 credit units

• Jari Vanhanen
• Helsinki University of Technology
• Software Business and Engineering Institute
• http//www.soberit.hut.fi

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Objectives

• Understanding of agile software develoment
• different agile methodologies XP, DSDM, ASD,
  Crystal, SCRUM ...
• what is common to them all
• just-enough process
• responsive to changes
• code-centric
• close customer collaboration
• iterative
• Learning to make research work and to present its
  results

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Target audience

• Suggested pre-requisites
• both theoretical and practical experience on
  software projects
• T-76.601 Basic Course in SE
• T-76.631 Software Processes
• T-76.115 Software Project or work experience

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Contents

• Lectures
• intro, eXtreme programming
• scientific writing, agile software development
• Pre-examination
• Cockburn, A. Agile Software Development,
  Addison-Wesley, 2001.
• e.g. bol.com 42.00
• lecture 2 covers the main points of the book
• Writing the paper
• several intermediate deliveries
• Wrap-up session
• presentation
• opposing

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Seminar report

• 0. Choosing a topic
• propose your own topic or one of those provided
  by the organizers
• email to jari.vanhanen_at_hut.fi
• approaches e.g. literature study or empirical
  paper
• 1. Defining research problem, objectives, methods
  and scope
• 2. Writing the preliminary annotated table of
  contents and list of sources
• 3. Complete draft
• 4. Final version
• including the one page summary

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Deliveries at milestones

• Send each delivery to jari.vanhanen_at_hut.fi AND
  your tutor
• PDF, PS, WORD
• Subject T-76.650 ...
• final versions will be published on the course
  web page
• Have a 30 minute meeting with your tutor a couple
  of days after deliveries 1-3
• agree on the exact time with your tutor

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Wrap-up session

• 10-15 minutes presentation
• PowerPoint slides
• 10 minutes discussion
• opponent, tutor
• Session length is n25 minutes
• in Spektri

• Opposing
• Objective
• analyze the report and present your critique
• identify ways to improve the paper
• Content of debate
• max. 10 minutes
• commenting the most important aspects of the
  report
• commenting the most important aspects of the
  presentation
• commenting possible limitations, obscurities and
  errors
• presenting suggestions to improve the paper
• presenting alternative solutions
• presenting  supplementary material

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Grading

• scale 0-5
• pre-exam 30
• final report, presentation debating 70
• deliverables 1-3
• scale pass/fail
• each fail resulting in subtraction of 1 from the
  grade calculated from pre-exam and the seminar
  paper

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Schedule

• 21.01. Lecture 1
• 28.01. Lecture 2
• 04.02. Pre-exam
• 04.02. DL Selecting a topic.
• 11.02. DL Milestone 1 (problem definition)
• 25.02. DL Milestone 2 (table of contents)
• 25.03. DL Milestone 3 (complete draft)
• 15.04. DL Milestone 4 (final version)
• 19.04. wrap-up session