Humboldt University Berlin, University of Novi Sad, University of Plovdiv, University of Skopje, University of Belgrade, University of Niš, University of Kragujevac Version: Oct. 23, 2003 (D Sep. 22, 2003) DAAD Project “Joint Course on Software Engineering” MS Project in a course “Software Project Management”

DAAD project „Joint Course on Software Engineering“ © 2 About a course  Final – IV year students, 14 students  1 semester, 2 hrs lecture, 1 hr exercises  Exam and final mark: practical assignment in MS Project “short answers” test of 20 questions “detailed answers” test of 4 questions  Of 14 students, 12 successfully finished their practical assignment.  Marks: 7 – once 8 – eight times 9 – three times  Of 12 students eligible for an exam, 11 showed up, each one passing both tests, marks 6 – 10.  Each of 11 students accepted offered final mark.

DAAD project „Joint Course on Software Engineering“ © 3 Content of Course  Introduction (117 slides)  IT management ( )  CMM and process improvement (51)  Cost estimation and COCOMO (71)  Software measurement and metrics (51)  Planning (43+36)  Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise)  Ethical issues (87)

DAAD project „Joint Course on Software Engineering“ © 4 Excercises  As an example of project at exercises, students were presented with a management of a university project “Management of an introductory course in computer science as a minor, for a large group of students”  Mentioned “problem” is a real-life course held at the Faculty of Science in Novi Sad. Approximately the same subject is held for some 8 (eight!) different groups of students, with some 450 students.  Course is held by 2 professors and (at least) 3 assistants, while the exam is organized through 3 tests + 3 practical work (for those who passed tests).  This allowed us to present a lot of possibilities of MS Project, involved material that is relatively easy to explain and material that is understandable to students.

DAAD project „Joint Course on Software Engineering“ © 5 Excercises  For their assignment, students had to create a project that will manage production of a software for “Seminar organization” – case study that all of the students knew very well from the course “Software Engineering”  The original idea was (and still is, for the future years), to contact some actual companies, find some concrete practical problems that are managed in real- life, and ask students to solve those.  Besides, companies would be able to define a contact-person who would work with students as an expert, with first-hand experience  Why not?  Several reasons: our companies do not use too many theoretical elements in their work, all of the software products are usually inventions of individuals “contact-person” can not be properly “motivated” to communicate with students, it would be too difficult to organize and too much of hard work for them

DAAD project „Joint Course on Software Engineering“ © 6 MS Project lecture  Content of a lecture: Basics Project planning – Theory and practice Definition and planning of activities Resource assurance plan Project costs planning Advanced topics Supervision of a project Visual supervision of a project  Each of the topics, consists of two parts: theoretical background and suggestions practical “point-and-click” description