Rapid Application Development. Course Outline Semester 2, 2012

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1 Rapid Application Development Course Outline Semester 2, 2012 Massey University, Albany ecalude/co753.pdf July 5, SCRUM 1.1 Agile and Scrum Foundation of Agile Software Development and Project management What is Scrum and how it works? Why are Agile and Scrum effective in Software Project Management? 1.2 Requirements gathering for the product backlog Visual Requirements Gathering Process Identify the Stakeholders and their goals Gather requirements for the Product backlog The SMART and CUTFIT rules An example 1.3 Estimating user stories and Scrum enterprise-wide implementation Problems with Non-Comparable Story Point Objective Criteria-Based Estimating Process Estimation Matrix 1.4 Architecture vision, team velocity and software quality What is and why is the Architecture Vision important? How to identify the Architecture Vision? 1.5 Software release and Sprints planning From Architecture Vision to Release and Sprints Planning From Incremental to Parallel Software Development

2 1.6 Did you say product owner? The role of the product owner Managing Stakeholders Expectations and Prioritization Clear Product Vision and Knowledge Knowing how to be a Good Organizer Being a Servant Leadership 1.7 Automated, regression and integration tests The definition of Done The most important Tests Automating Testing Organizing the Testing Infrastructure 1.8 The team and teamwork The Individuals The Group The Team The Keirsey Temperament Types The Five Team Stages Resolving Team Conflicts 2 Rapid Application Development 2.1 Rapid Development Strategy General Strategy for Rapid Development Four Dimensions of Development Speed Which Dimension Matters the Most? 2.2 Lifecycle Planning Pure Waterfall Code-and-Fix Evolutionary Delivery Commercial Off-the-Shelf Software Agile 2

3 2.3 Customer-Oriented Development Customers Importance Customer-Oriented Practices managing Customer Expectations 2.4 Estimation What Is an Estimate? Wideband Delphi Flying Fingers Planning Poker Affinity Estimation Trivariate Estimates The Law of Large Numbers 2.5 Risk Management Elements of Risk Management Risk Identification Risk Analysis Risk Prioritization Risk Control 2.6 Acceptance Testing The Uncertainty Principle Acceptance Tests unit tests Continuous Integration 2.7 Motivation Typical Developer Motivations Using the Top Five Motivation Factors Using Other Motivation Factors Morale Killers 2.8 Teamwork Team structure considerations Team models Teamwork guidelines 3

4 3 Assessment Each student will give two short presentations, create a poster, create her/his Curriculum Vitae (CV) contribute to a group project submit an individual project The topics for presentations are the ones listed above. Each student will choose one topic from SCRUM (part 1) and one from RAD (part 2). Each presentation will be 30 minutes followed by 10 minutes class discussion. The presentation file (pptx preferable) should be sent to me two hours before the presentation The topic for the poster will be one of the topic chosen for the presentation. The poster has to be sent by to me, as a pdf file and I will organize to be printed in A8 format. The CV and all other documentations required for assessment will be produced using LaTeX. The topics for all projects will be chosen from a list I will distribute in class. The individual and group project will require creating web (simple) applications and the recommended programming language to be used will be Ruby on Rail. I will provide two similar applications, as examples. If you want to use a different programming language for the web applications, that s fine as long as the software to be used is free to download. If a student has an interesting project to work on come and talk to me-i might consider it as your individual project. Please note that you have to have my written approval for this. N r. Title Percent Due time Format 1 Presentation SCRUM 5 TBA ppt 2 Presentation RAD 5 TBA ppt 3 Curriculum Vitae Aug, 8pm, tex, pdf 4 Poster Sept, 8pm, pdf 5 Group project (draft plan) 5 11 Sept, 8pm tex,pdf 5 Group project (final report) 5 14 Oct,8pm tex, pdf 5 Group project (demos) 10 Tue, 9 Oct, 1pm - 5 Group project (source, survey files) 10 Tue, 9 Oct, 1pm Ruby on Rail 6 Individual project(draft plan) 7 25 Sept, 8pm, tex,pdf 6 Individual project (final plan) 8 19 Oct,8pm tex,pdf 6 Individual project (demos) Oct 1-3pm 6 Individual project (source) Oct, 8pm Ruby on Rail 4 References References [1] A. Pham and P.-Van Pham, Scrum in Action: Agile Software Project Management and Development, Course Technology Cengage Learning, pages. ISBN-13:

5 [2] Steven McConnell, Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, Microsoft Press, pages. ISBN: [3] Wikipidia, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rapid application development [4] Robert Martin The Clean Coder, Prentice Hall, 2011, 210 pages, ISBN-13: [5] Ruby programming language [6] Ruby on Rails rubyonrails.org/ [7] LaTeX en.wikipedia.org/wiki/latex [8] MiKTeX miktex.org/2.9/setup [9] TeXnicCentre [10] TeXworks tug.org/texworks/ [11] Steven McConnell web page 5