Seminar/Practical Course: Agile Project Management WS17/18
Course Description
This course offers the possibility to gain profound experience in agile project management. Participants supervise a real project by coaching an international team of students in the iPraktikum (formerly known as iOS Praktikum) and/or take on additional management task like leading the modeling, release management or code quality teams. All coaches meet weekly to discuss the current status, problems and future tasks with the course instructors.
Goals
- Coaching and motivation of an agile project team
- Hands-on experience in project management
- Real world application of agile methods (Scrum)
- Handling of challenges in projects and with team members
At a glance
- Credits: 4/5 ETCS (Seminar) or 10 ECTS (Practical Course)
Note: in order to count as a 10 ECTS course, participating students additionally lead a cross-project team (e.g. Modeling, Release Management, Merge Management) - Possible module numbers: IN0014, IN2107, IN0012, IN2106, IN2175, IN4554
- Participants: Limited to 10-15 students
- Info Meeting: July 11, 2:00pm-2:30pm, room 01.07.014 - download the slides here
Related Courses
Prerequisites
- Participating students have already taken part in a project at the chair of Prof. Bruegge (either as Developer or as Coach)
- Participating students are familiar with the concepts of agile software engineering (e.g. Scrum)
- Participating students have several years of experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, e.g. Java, C++, C#, Objective-C or Swift
- Participating students have excellent communication skills in English
- Knowledge in the development of mobile applications (in particular iOS), in the field of Usability Engineering or in project management is beneficial
Schedule
- Coach Kickoff Meeting: Wednesday, October 18, 3:00pm, 01.07.058
- iPraktikum Kickoff Meeting: Thursday, October 19, 4:30 pm, Interims Lecture Hall 1
- iPraktikum Course-wide Meetings: Thursdays, 4 pm
- Weekly Coach Meeting: The time will be decided by all Coaches together
Application
Please have a look at the slides of the info meeting for all details, which will be available here after the meeting. The application process is structured as follows:
Application steps
- Attend the info meeting. - download the slides here
- Please fill the application form below. (Latest: July 11)
- We invite you to a short personal interview by July 12 - pick a time slot that works for you. Interviews take place on July 13, 9am - 1pm.
- After we have accepted you, prioritize the Proseminar/Seminar "Agile Project Management" in the matching system of the faculty (Latest: July 19)
Application form
The application period has passed. Please check back next semester!
Instructors & contact
Email us with questions at ios (at) in.tum.de.
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| Dominic Henze | Paul Schmiedmayer |