Typ: Hauptseminar / Masterseminar
Semesterwochenstunden: 2+0
Hauptseminar: Agile Techniques for Project Management and Software Engineering - WS 12/13
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.
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.
The seminar language is usually English (can change to German if all participants are familiar with it!).
Schedule
Preliminary talk / Info meeting
Date and Time: 13.07.2012 - 10:00 - 10:30am Room: 01.07.014
Kick-Off meeting
Date and Time: 19.10.2012 - 10:00 - 11:00 am, Room 01.013.007
Attendance in this meeting is required, if you want to participate in the seminar.
Presentation dates
The presentation dates are always friday from 9:00am - 04:00pm on the following days
- 18.01.2013
- 25.01.2013
- 01.02.2013
Participants
max. 8 participants
Application
- Please send your application until the kick-off date via email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Name, Email, Matrikel number, Master/Bachelor & Major)
- Give your topic choice (if topics are already defined)
Assignment of the open places to students:
In general we will assign the open places as well as the topics first come first serve according to the order of application. The list below shows your rank in this order. If you are among the top 8, your participation is assured. Who will actually participate will be decided at the kick-off meeting. People who do not attend this meeting cannot participate in the seminar (serious causes are of course accepted!).
Modalities (final version!)
Changes are marked in red
You will get a certificate with a grade based on the following criteria:
- Ability to do independent research (required reading - most are available at TUM Bibliothek + min. 3 other scientific sources)
- Oral presentation (30 minutes) about the selected topic as well as an exercise on the selected topic (15-30 minutes)
- Short test about your topic, to check what the other participants have learnt from your presentation (5 - 10 questions, min. one max 50% open questions, rest multiple choice, duration of test: 15 min)
- Quality of the presentation techniques
- Quality of the presentation slides
- Quality of written term paper (between 5-8 pages text, using a given format, Latex or Word) UPDATE: Please use the templates of the ICSE 2013 Conference, which can be found here: http://2013.icse-conferences.org/content/submission-guidelines
- ACTIVE participation at all the other presentations and the Kick-Off meeting (compulsory attendance)
Deadlines
1) Latest 2 weeks before your presentation you have to have an appointment with one of the seminar leaders in which you show a first draft of your presentation
2) Hand in all material at the date of your presentation (Paper, Presentation, Exercise in PDF format). Send via mail to your supervisor. Further bring one printed copy of the paper to your presentation
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
Topics
- Topics are assigned first come first serve according to the order of application (can be taken from the waiting list). The assignment takes place in the kick-off!
- Required Readings: Most of the required readings are available at the TUM Bibliothek
| Date / Slot | 10 - 12 | 12 - 14 | 14 - 16 |
| 18th of January |
Introduction to agile with games :D |
Topic 5 Timo Besenreuther |
Topic 2 Timo Kersten |
| 25th of January |
Guest lecture |
Topic 3 Habtom Kahsay Gidey |
Topic 7 Mohammad Zaifullah |
| 1st of February |
Topic 6 Ivan Stefanov |
Topic 1 Rahman Zead |
Topic 8 Diego Havenstein |
| # | Presenter | Topic | Required Readings | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) |
Rahman Zead |
Agile User Experience and Interaction Design | - http://ianlarson.posterous.com/real-world-agile-user-experience-design - http://uxdesign.com/events/article/alan-cooper-interview-agile-08/51 - Paper 1: Tobin J. Lehman and Akhilesh Sharma. 2011. Software Development as a Service: Agile Experiences - Paper 2: Jennifer Ferreira, Helen Sharp, and Hugh Robinson. 2011. User experience design and agile development: managing cooperation through articulation work |
Miriam |
| 2) |
Timo Kersten |
Agile Documentation and Agile Modeling |
Agile Documentation, Andreas Rüping Agile Modeling, Scott Ambler |
Miriam |
| 3) |
Habtom Kahsay Gidey
|
The Agile Manifesto and the philosophy behind the agile methods ,Beyond the Agile Manifesto |
Agile software development ecosystems, James A. Highsmith | Michaela |
| 4) |
Umair Iqbal |
Continous Integration and Continous Releasing - what is it and why do people think they do it, if they do not do it |
Humble, Farley: Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html |
Michaela |
| 5) |
Timo Besenreuther |
Crystal Clear and Scrum - Similarities, Differences and best practices |
Crystal Clear: A Human-powered Methodology For Small Teams, Alistair Cockburn Scrum - Agiles Projektmanagment erfolgreich einsetzen, Roman Pichler |
Miriam |
| 6) |
Ivan Stefanov |
Fixed price agile projects - Can it be done? What are the alternatives? |
- www.nayima.be/html/agilefixedprice.pdf - http://codebetter.com/darrellnorton/2005/04/22/fixed-price-contracts-in-an-agile-organization/ |
Miriam |
| 7) |
Mohammad Zaifullah |
Test-Driven Development - is it as good as it seems? |
Test-Driven Development. By Example (Kent Beck, 2002)/ Madeyski, L. Test-Driven Development Springer, 2010 |
Michaela |
| 8) |
Diego Havenstein |
Using agile methods in project courses at university - A status report on current practices |
Bruegge, Reiss, Schiller: Agile Principles in Academic Education: A Case Study
Viljan Mahnic: A Capstone Course on Agile Software Development Using Scrum
|
Michaela |
| Guest Talk |
|
Surprise ;) |
|
Professor
 |
Prof. Bernd Brügge, Ph.D. |
Contact
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Michaela Gluchow |
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Miriam Schmidberger |