CMSI 543 / SYEG 557: Links to Class Notes

The following outline presents the topics that are covered, in the approximate order and time frame in which they will be discussed.

• Week 01 — Introduction, Syllabus, Getting Started
  
  • Syllabus items and issues
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 02 — What the What?!
  
  • Software Development and Engineering Methodology
  • Agile versus Waterfall [Water-fail?]
  • Cayman Design
  • Organizational Cultures
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 03 — Agile Roles
  
  • Special Edition: Overview of Roles
  • Product Owner
  • Scrum Master
  • Team Member
  • Who should be included/excluded?
  • Roles in Other Methods
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 04 — Organizational Views
  
  • Organizational Culture
  • Differing Veiwpoints within an Organization
    
    • Team Member's View
    • Manager's View
    • Executive's View
  • Agile Flavors
    
    • Extreme Programming
    • Scrum
    • Kanban
    • Crystal
    • Dynamic Systems Development
    • Feature-driven Development
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 05 — Requirements
  
  • The Old Way ~ Time-tested and Still in Use
  • Waterfall Requirements
  • Some Examples
  • Agile Requirements in Scrum
  • User Story Format
  • INVEST
  • Epics
  • Use Cases
  • Acceptance Criteria
  • Best Practices in Agile Requirements
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 06 — Roles on Agile Teams
  
  • Introduction to Roles
  • Product Owner
    • Priorities
    • Business Value Check
    • Sprint Results
    • Release Management
    • Product Ownership — Breadth
    • Who should it be?
  • Scrum Master
    • Removing Impediments
    • Communicator
    • Adherence to Best Practices
    • Full-time or Part-time
    • Permanent or Rotating
    • Who should it be?
  • Team
    • Working Agreement
    • Fist of Five – everyone's voice counts
    • Self-organizing
    • Membership ~ Cross-functional
    • Extended Team Membership
  • Other Agile Methods' Roles for Comparison
  • Examples
  • In Class Exercise
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 07 — Midterm Exam & Requirements Part Deux
  
  • MID-TERM EXAM FIRST HALF OF CLASS
  • Additions and Considerations from Other Methods
  • Enhancing Requirements
  • From User Stories to Deliverables
  • Communication
  • Lean Development and MVP
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 08 — Spring Break
  
  • Nothing assigned for this week
  • No lecture
  • No homework
  • No class
  • You've worked hard, so take the full week off!
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 09 — Good Grooming
  
  • Finish up with requirements from [link to weekly page]
  • Grooming the product backlog
  • Prioritization of stories
  • Estimating
  • Scrum grooming
  • Scrum sprint planning
  • XP Planning
  • Maintenance of legacy code
  • Triple constraints
  • What about Kanban?
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 10 — Testing and Integration
  
  • Quality
  • Refactored code
  • Test Driven Development [TDD]
  • Example using TDD
  • In-class TDD exercise
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 11 — A Bit More on WaterFail
  
  • Personal Software Process
  • Earned value details
  • COCOMO estimation methods
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 12 — Other Useful Methods
  
  • Kanban and the Kanban board
  • Work In Progress [WIP] limit
  • Tracking
  • Burn charts
  • Information radiators
  • Feature Driven Development [FDD] "parking lots"
  • Meetings or ceremonies
  • Sprint reviews
  • Retrospectives and post-mortems
  • BREAK
  • Verbal quiz
  • Weekly Standup ~ all participants
  • Project Work Time
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 13 — Easter Break
  
  • Announcements
  • NO CLASS TONIGHT ~ Easter Break!
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 14 — Let's Play 20 Questions
  
  • 20 Questions ~ Animal, Vegitable, or Scrum?
  • Other Agile Applications
  • Video Links Revisited
  • Hopefully Some Discussion Ensues
  • BREAK
  • Weekly Standup ~ all participants
  • Project Work Time
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 15 — SEI on Agile: Links, Vids, and Discussion
  
  • Software Engineering Institute on Agile
  • Some interesting Videos
  • Agile Metrics
  • Discussion in Groups
  • Back in Main Group Discussion
  • BREAK
  • Verbal quiz
  • Weekly Standup ~ all participants
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 16 — Project Work Evening
  
  • Project work time for entire class, in your breakout groups
    NOTE: YOU MUST STAY ON CAMPUS FOR THIS SESSION, EITHER IN OUR CLASSROOM OR IN ANOTHER CLASSROOM IN OUR BUILDING.
  • to help you get ready for next week, I'll be visiting each group to see a dry run of your presentation, offer suggestions, and provide feedback
  • [link to weekly page]
  
  
• Week 17: Project Presentations
  
  • [link to weekly page]