1. T-76.4115 & 5115 Software Development Project I & II Quality Award and Course Closing Ceremony 11.3.2008

2. Agenda  16:15 Opening (Prof. Tomi Männistö/SoberIT)  16:20 Summary of the projects (Jari Vanhanen/SoberIT)  16:40 BSRE in Zurich (Jyrki Koskinen/IBM)  16:45 Demos of the quality award candidates  braZil  Software Trickery  Team Maranello  17:45 Quality award (V. Luomala & H. Seiro & H. Hohteri/Accenture)  18:00 – 19:45 Dinner

4. Educational goals – Now you should …  understand the challenges involved in commercial sw development  it is not just coding …  be able to select good practices and tools for your future projects  and avoid some unsuitable ones …  have learned many generally useful things  management skills, social skills, presentation skills, writing skills  networking, business thinking, general project work, internationalization

5. Good practices according to the teams  Iterative development  even more than 3 iterations  Co-located team  much more efficient than distributed work/working alone  Weekly Scrum meetings  Reflection workshops for process improvement  CruiseControl for continuous integration

6. Problems in projects  Lack of good task and time tracking tools  Google Docs and Trac were quite good solutions  Too much documentation  educational goals  project plan, requirements, test cases & ET charters  quality and project status  reflection (final report)  lighter ways of communication  mind maps?  slide shows/presentations?  Busy/unmotivated team members

7. Course feedback  Too much work per credit point  not all hours are reported?  difficulties in managing scope and customer’s expectations?  constant stress from the project cannot be measured using hours  Very useful course  Duration of the course  “too long, it should be 2 periods”  “too short, it should be 4 periods”  Very committed and helpful customers  Similar grading by different customers? 76.4115: 6 cr (160h) ->project 150h + team/topic setup 10h 76.5158 SEPA: 2cr (53h) ->15h SEPA + 25h project work

8. Evaluation – Final course grade  Total points = PP + I1 + I2 + EES + RESULTS + individual points

9. Evaluation – Project’s results  Customer  compares to the original/updated project goals  some compensation if the customer caused problems to the project  Mentor  compares to typical projects on this course  difficulty of the project +/- a few points

10. Final points 591,0 484,0 377,0 270,0  Individual points (max +/- 5p) affect the grades within groups

11. Last practical arrangements  Course feedback form  link in course newsgroup & in the course schedule  deadline 16.3. 23:59  T-76.5158 SEPAs  boomerangs must be returned by 30.3.  Accounts in A218, Bugzilla and Wiki will be closed in April  copy your data elsewhere and delete your files in A218

12. Mentoriksi ensi lukuvuonna?  Työ on  mielenkiintoista  opettavaista  palkitsevaa  Työmäärä ~70-100t (2-3 ryhmää)  lokakuu-helmikuu  työhön tutustuminen  mentor-palaverit  iteraatiodemot  muu ohjaus ja seuranta  arvostelut ja arvostelupalaverit

13. Thank you!  Students  Customers  including those who did not even get a group…   Mentors  All involved teachers from SoberIT  SoberIT computer administrators  Accenture