1. T-76.650 Software Engineering Seminar Agile Software Development 3 credit units Jari Vanhanen Helsinki University of Technology Software Business and Engineering Institute http://www.soberit.hut.fi

2. 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. 3 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

4. 4 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

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

6. 6 Deliveries at milestones  Send each delivery to jari.vanhanen@hut.fi AND your tutorjari.vanhanen@hut.fi  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

7. 7 Wrap-up session  10-15 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. 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. 9 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