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CS5091: ADVANCED AGILE DIGITAL PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT (2015-2016)

Last modified: 25 Mar 2016 11:37


Course Overview

Students either join two different teams, or continue with ones from the previous term, and develop one major, and one minor, piece of software over the term. The students push the discover, design, develop, deliver process further to explore deeper issues in customer development and continuous improvement of their business offering. This is the main course this term.



Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus None. Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Dr Bruce Scharlau

Qualification Prerequisites

None.

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme (Studied)
  • Computing Science (CS) (Studied)

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

None.

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

The initial week sees the students guiding beginning students on agile and lean development while developing their two different team ideas. This is followed up with a focus on knowing that the team is developing the 'right feature at the right time' at a high level of quality so that the team can pivot easily if/when they need to as they learn more about their customers. The teams will also focus on both continuous integration of their software, and continuous improvement of their own processes so that they steadily improve their working habits as well as their software development process. As each product the teams develop will differ, they will all understand how the general principles of agile and lean software development apply to their context, while also understanding the general ideas of service design and its specific application to their context.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers


Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Continuous assessment (100%): a mixture of written reports, and software applications, of which 50% is based on group activities developing the software artefacts of their teams, and 50% is based on individual reflective work on the form of a 2500 word long essay.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Feedback

None.

Course Learning Outcomes

None.

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