Agile Development Processes - lp4, vt2012

NOTE: Robert Feldt is no longer responsible for this course. The current course home page is here.

Course code: EDA397 (Chalmers) / DIT191 (GU)
Examiner/Lecturer: Robert Feldt, Assistants: Ali Shahrokni, Emil Börjesson

News

Exam from last year. No guarantees this year will be similar.
Workshop 4 (Debate) slides from groups:

1 & 2. SW Quality: Positive / Negative
3 & 4. Time & Budget: Positive / Negative
5 & 6. Group & Individual Spirit/Happiness: Positive / Negative
7 & 8. Customer Interaction/Satisfaction: Positive / Negative
9 & 10. Scalability & large projects: Positive / Negative

Description and Rules for Group Project.
Groups for the project work.
It is mandatory to answer this survey if you are taking part in the course: You, your background and EQ. (Note that it says 2011 in title but that is a typo, answer anyway!)

Dates

Below you can see the date, time, room and themes for the lectures and workshops. There is also a detailed schedule in TimeEdit. NOTE! We have booked extra time in the project rooms where you should work on the project but when there will not always be assistants on site for support.

In the column marked "AC" you can see the parts of the main course book (by Alistair Cockburn relevant for that lecture and in the "Papers" column the relevant research papers. You are expected to study these chapters and papers that are relevant for a lecture around the time of that lecture (preferably before attending the lecture!). Lectures will not be directly based on the books and papers but will add additional material.

Date & Time	Room (Always in Jupiter)	Theme	Papers	AC
12/3 10:30-12:15	243	L1: Course introduction, Agile overview [Slides, Video] (RF)	Cohen2004 (page 1-17 & 25-26 & 27-28)
14/3 11:00	--	--- DEADLINE: For your answer to the course survey ---
14/3 13:15-17:00	317, 321 & 322	Workshop 1: Android (AS) [Slides] NB!! BRING LAPTOPS!!!
16/3 13:15-17:00	317, 321 & 322	Workshop 2: Project startup [Video from workshop, Audio from customer interview #1] (AS, EB, RF)
19/3 10:30-12:15	243	L2: Methodologies & Practices, Scrum and XP, Kanban (RF) [Slides, Audio]	Schwaber1995	Ch. 1, Ch. 4
19/3 13:15-14:15	317, 321 & 322	Customer interview #2 [Audio]
23/3 13:15-17:00	317, 321 & 322	Workshop 3: Automated testing & Pair programming (AS, EB)
26/3 10:30-12:15	243	L3: Guest lecture! Agile Process being introduced/used at SAAB AB [Sides, Video1, Video2]	Iilvari2011
16/4 10:30-12:15	243	L4: Guest lecture! Transitioning to Agile Processes at Volvo Car Corporation [Slides]	Sidky
27/4 10:30-12:15	243	L5: People, Visibility, Refactoring (RF) [Slides2011, Video2011]	Whitworth2008	Ch. 3
7/5 10:30-12:15	243	L6: Agile Philosophy & Values, Cooperative Game, Communication (RF) [Slides2011, Video2011]		Ch 0, 0.1, 1.1, 2
14/5 10:30-12:15	243	L7: Adapting Agile, Crystal Methodologies, Summary (RF) [Slides, Video]	Lee2010	Ch. 5, Ch. 6
14/5 13:15-17:00	317, 321 & 322	Workshop 4: Criticism to and Missing in Agile (RF)	Fogelström2009	Ch. 5.1
16/5 12:00	--	* Deadline: PostMortem Report *
16/5 13:15-17:00	317, 321 & 322	Project workshops - final hand-off to customer
22/5 14:00-18:00	Lindholmen	Written exam

Course documents and material

Examination will be based on the main course book, the papers listed in the Dates and Deadlines table above and the material presented in lectures as well as on your project. To pass the course it is extremely important that you read all the course material, participate in lectures and are active in and finish your project. If you do not you will fail! Remember that this is a master level course and requires considerably more than most bachelor level courses.

Main course book (AC): Alistair Cockburn, Agile Software Development (2nd edition), Addison-Wesley Professional; 2nd edition (October 29, 2006).
Papers linked to above in the table
Lecture notes as added above in the table after each lecture name (added a few days after the lecture has been held)

Project

All your reports for assignments and exercises should be formatted using the IEEE Conference Proceedings format:

Author Guidelines (IEEE Conference Proceedings format)
MS Word format file
Latex format files