Sessions

The 45 lecture sessions

Sessions 1 to 21, before the midterm

01Overview of software process modelsTue 17 Nov
02Overview of AgileThu 19 NovAgile Manifesto and principles
03Scrum roles and artifacts: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team, Manager in Scrum, Product BacklogSat 21 Nov
04Scrum process flow: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Scrum meetings, demosTue 24 Nov
05How a sprint works: planning, daily scrum, updating the Sprint Backlog, burndown chart, review, retrospectiveThu 26 Nov
06Scrum metrics: velocity, burndown, defects carried overMon 30 NovTracking in OpenProject
07XP, Lean, and Kanban comparedWed 2 Dec
08Test driven development and pair programmingFri 4 Dec
09Working with AI assistants well AIMon 7 DecIntent, context, constraints, and examples; the instruction file and usage log; reviewing output; responsible use
10Unit testing as an engineering practice: test design, test doubles, coverage as a signal, and tests as the oracle for human and AI written codeWed 9 Dec
11Requirements engineering tasks within Agile: initiation, elicitation, negotiation, validationFri 11 Dec
12User personas and story mappingTue 15 Dec
13Writing user storiesThu 17 DecINVEST criteria
14Acceptance criteria and Definition of Done, linked to acceptance testsSat 19 DecThe Definition of Done states the unit testing expectation
15Estimating, prioritizing, and release planningTue 22 Dec
16AI assistants and agents AIThu 24 DecThe plan, act, verify loop, instruction files, specification driven development, and human checkpoints
17Requirements modeling: analysis model, scenario based methods, use casesTue 29 Dec
18Activity diagrams, class diagrams, and data modelsThu 31 Dec
19Sequence diagrams and other UML modelsTue 5 JanReviewing and validating models, including AI generated models
20Tutorial: requirements modeling and UML problem solvingThu 7 JanDrawing, reviewing, and correcting diagrams in StarUML
21Midterm revisionSat 9 Jan

Sessions 22 to 45, after the midterm