Hauptseminar: Agile Techniques for Project Management and Software Engineering

Typ: Hauptseminar
SWS: 2+0
ECTS: 4 Credits
Time: Blockseminar

Wednesday, 07.05.2008 - Friday, 09.05.2008

Location: Seminarraum 01.07.014

Preliminary Presentation:

• Sildes.pdf

Schedule

Date	Time	Presenter	Topic	Handouts download
7.5.	9:30	Feng, Wei	Agile Introduction	---
	11:00	Fang, Wei	Scrum	Handout, Presentation
	13:30	Reichart, Philipp	Extreme Programming	Handout, Presentation
	15:00	Yu, Feng	Feature Driven Development	Handout, Presentation
8.5.	9:00	Weber, Laura	DSDM	Handout,
	10:35	Petkov, Petromil	Lean Software Development	Handout, Presentation
	13:00	Liesenfeld, Nora	Agile Estimating and Planning	Handout, Presentation
	14:35	Meng, Xue	Agile Documentation	Handout, Presentation
9.5.	9:00	Guzman Ortega, Emitza	Agile Modeling	Handout, Presentation
	10:35	Kallusky, Dominik	Agility in the Large	Handout,

Summary

Today's software projects present many challenges. The organization is distributed, developers are often spread around the globe, the requirements are changing rapidly and the time from problem formation to delivery has been shortened significantly.

The goal of the seminar is a better understanding of these challenges and how they can be addressed by software project management techniques. We focus on agile project management techniques in the context of managing the development of complex software systems in the context of rapid change. The course is offered to highly motivated students interested in learning about software project management and applying new technologies in addressing some of its challenges.

The seminar consists of two components, presentations and exercises.

The seminar component focuses on the presentation of recent advances in management and technology with respect to the management of large complex software development projects. The topics for the presentations are selected from the current literature on agile technology. Topics include agile meeting management, agile estimation and project planning, traceability in the context of changing requirements, as well as agile build and release management techniques.

The goal of the exercise component is to deepen the understanding of the concepts discussed in the seminar component. Each seminar participant has to design and lead an exercise involving agile management techniques which is performed by the other seminar participants.

Desired Outcome

In this seminar you will learn how to:

• Deal with projects where change occurs rapidly
• Effectively manage unknown or changing product requirements
• Deal with self-organizing development teams
• Get acquainted with project planning in agile environments
• Build and release products in short cycles
• Agile meeting management
• Deal with large-scale projects involving teams from different geographic locations

Softskills:

• improvement of presentation skills
• scientific research

Modalities

You will get a certificate with a grade based on the following criteria:

• Ability to do independent research
• Oral presentation about the selecte topic, including the performance of an exercise
• Quality of the annotated presentation slides (about 10-20 slides, commentary for each slide)
• Attendance and ACTIVE participation at all the other presentations

Requirements

• Presentation slide
• Handout
• full attendance
• active participation

Topics

• Introduction, Classification: iterativ, incremental, adaptive, agile
• Agile Project Management with Scrum
• Extreme Programming
• Lean Software Development
• Feature Driven Development
• Agility in the Large
• Agile Techniques, like agile documentation, agile planning/ estimating, agile modeling
• ...

Instructors

Prof. Bernd Brügge, Ph.D.

Jennifer Schiller

-- JenniferSchiller - 23 Jan 2008