T Software Engineering Seminar Agile Software Development 3 credit units Jari Vanhanen Helsinki University of Technology Software Business and Engineering Institute

2 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

3 Target audience  Suggested pre-requisites  both theoretical and practical experience on software projects  T Basic Course in SE  T Software Processes  T Software Project or work experience

4 Contents  Lectures  intro, eXtreme programming  scientific writing, agile software development  Pre-examination  Cockburn, A. Agile Software Development, Addison-Wesley,  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

5 Seminar report  0. Choosing a topic  propose your own topic or one of those provided by the organizers  to  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

6 Deliveries at milestones  Send each delivery to AND your  PDF, PS, WORD  Subject: T  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

7 Wrap-up session  minutes presentation  PowerPoint slides  10 minutes discussion  opponent, tutor  Session length is n*25 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

8 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

9 Schedule  Lecture 1  Lecture 2  Pre-exam  DL: Selecting a topic.  DL: Milestone 1 (problem definition)  DL: Milestone 2 (table of contents)  DL: Milestone 3 (complete draft)  DL: Milestone 4 (final version)  wrap-up session