Topic outline

  • Welcome to the Course Software Processes and Projects!

    The course is organized mainly online, but we are planning to have a few face-to-face sessions. The online lectures will take place via Zoom on Fridays at 9:15-11:00.

    Zoom link to lectures. 

    Preliminary lecture schedule (changes are possible):
    20.1. Course introduction & Processes
    27.1. Requirements/ Product Owner work (visitor: Anu Takala)
    3.2. Effort estimation/Planning Poker exercise (visitor: Vasco Duarte)
    10.2. Coaching (visitor: Viktoriya Bahneva, Netlight)
    17.2. Lean (visitor: Tuomas Syrjänen, Futurice)
    24.2. & 3.3. & 10.3. NO LECTURE
    17.3. Large-scale Agile 
    24.3. Global Software Engineering (visitor: Veli-Jussi Kesti)
    31.3. Product and Portfolio Management (Visitor: Ville Manninen, Ernst & Young Parthenon)
    7.4. NO LECTURE (Easter)
    14.4. Leading Product Development (visitor: Towo Toivola, Futurice) 
    21.4. Group work presentations (NO recording of this session)
    28.4. Case Ericsson - planned visit to Ericsson at Kirkkonummi

    Lecture recording: 
    We aim to record most lectures, but cannot guarantee that recording always succeeds (NO recording of planning poker exercise, group work presentations, or the Ericsson visit), however, only the lecture part will be recorded, not interactive group work sessions or student presentations, that several lectures include. During many of the lectures, we will have interesting visitors from the industry, thus, please prefer to join online, instead of waiting for the recording, if you can, as then you can ask questions and we can have more interactive and useful sessions. The main purpose of the recording is that you may check interesting parts from the video afterward while writing learning diaries.

    Passing the course: 

    This course does NOT have an exam, instead, you will get points from weekly assignments and lecture learning diaries (diaries start from lecture 2). Typically, you may receive max 15 p /week (assignment 10 p + diary 5 p). To pass the course you need to receive min 50% of the total points. None of the assignments is mandatory, just the total sum counts (assignments: 8x10p+2x20p = 120p, diaries 9x5p=45p, in total max 165p). More detailed instructions on how to pass the course can be found in the Introduction lecture slides.

    See the grade table below:

    Reading material: 

    The main course material is articles and a few videos. No coursebook. The material will be released always in connection to the next assignment. The main idea is that you get to know the material and do the assignment BEFORE the lecture on that topic. That way the lecture topic is familiar to you and during the lecture we will go deeper into the topic.