Software Project Management

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November 12th, 2020: On Friday November 13th we will have the first sprint meeting during which each group is asked to present the result of the first sprint. We will use Webex for the presentations.
November 10th, 2020: Dear students due to another engagement I cannot deliver tomorrow lesson.
October 26th, 2020: It is important that you define groups for collaborating on the project (Groups Formation). The project will be assigned on Thursday 29th October.
October 22th, 2020: During the lesson scheduled for tomorrow, students will be asked to conduct some exercises so be ready for that.
October 14th, 2020: We confirm that tomorrow the first lab lesson will be held. Prof. Fornari will be in TeamLab and he will use his room for the streaming.
September 30th, 2020: We inform the students that next lesson will be held Monday October 5th. Due to another engagement at 12pm it will last only 1 hour.
September 30th, 2020: The starting of the Lab hours will be announced soon.
September 21st, 2020: We inform the students that the first lesson will be held on Wednesday, September 30th.

Teachers:

Course objectives and contents (ESSE3)

Lessons schedule:

Students Office hours:

Prof. Polini: Wednesday 5pm-6pm at my office (Polo Lodovici building) - please announce yourself via e-mail in advance
Prof. Fornari: Immediately after each lesson or by requesting an appointment via e-mail.

Course Slides

Laboratory Slides

Lessons

Theory:

Lab:

Textbooks

[HC] Bob Hughes, Mike Cotterell - Software Project Management, 5th Ed. - McGraw-Hill, 2009
[SG] Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene - Learning Agile - Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean and Kanban - O'Reilly Media, 2015

Reference books

[IS] Ian Sommerville - Software Engineering, 10th Ed. - Pearson Education, 2016
[RP] Roger Pressman, Bruce Maxim - Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 8th Ed. - McGraw-Hill, 2015
[ML] Mitch Lacey - The SCRUM Field Guide, 2nd Ed. - Pearson 2016.
[RW] Robert K. Wysocki - Effective Project Management, 7th Ed. - John Wiley and Sons 2014.

Project

Exam Dates A.Y. 2020/2021

Exam rules:

students have to manage and develop a software project over the duration of the semester with intermediate checkpoints (meeting with the teacher). The group will have to adopt and simulate the practices typical of a SCRUM team. The group will have to apply the methodologies and the tools explained during lecture hourse.
The course also foresees a final written exam in which the student will have to answer questions and solve exercises on the different parts of the course. The exam will last around 2 hours. Students willing to improve their final mark can ask for an additional oral examination.
The project has to be delivered before taking part to the written paper

Exam Results

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