This is a course homepage for **Agile Software Development**.

====== Announcement ======
  * Students taking this course must join [[http://groups.google.com/group/ku-ske-agile-52|the course google group]] to get announcements and to participate in discussions.

====== Objectives ======
  * To learn the practices and the principles of agile software development, and to appreciate its values.
  * To gain experience applying agile practices to real projects.

====== Schedule ======

Every lecture (except the first one) starts with feedback & discussion.

===== Week 1 (11/6) =====
  * Discussions.
  * Basic concepts: changes, debt, <del>values, principles, and practices.</del> -- [[http://garnet.cpe.ku.ac.th/~jtf/agile-52/01a-intro.odp|slides-odp]] [[http://garnet.cpe.ku.ac.th/~jtf/agile-52/01a-intro.pdf|slides-pdf]]
  * Super quick intro. to various agile practices. -- [[http://garnet.cpe.ku.ac.th/~jtf/agile-52/01b-practices-quick.odp|slides-odp]] [[http://garnet.cpe.ku.ac.th/~jtf/agile-52/01b-practices-quick.pdf|slides-pdf]]

  * Discussion on projects.  Team formation.  Appointment hours.
  * (maybe outside class) Set up source version control system.

**Links:**
  * [[http://agilemanifesto.org/|Agile Manifesto]]
  * Martin Fowler: [[http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html|Technical Debt]], [[http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebtQuadrant.html|Technical Debt Quadrant]]

===== Week 2 (11/13) =====
  * Concept: Values, principles, and practices.
  * Scrum.
  * Technical practices: managing codebase
  * Discussion on development environment.  (By appointment)
  * Trying to improve the environment.  (If possible)

===== Week 3 (11/20) =====
  * More on scrum.
  * Technical practices: refactoring.
  * User stories.

===== Week 4 (11/27) =====
  * How to maintain your code base.
  * Technical practice: unit testing, TDD.

  * 12/4: class cancelled.  (//activities outside class.//)

===== Week 5 =====
  * 12/9. Agile Estimating and Planing  
    * Many useful slides at [[http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/presentations|Mountain Goat Software]]
  * 12/11. Practice: unit testing, TDD (again)

===== Week 6 =====
  * 12/16.  Intro to Retrospective (also include the course retrospective)
    * [[http://agileretrospectivewiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page|Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki]]
    * [[http://xp123.com/xplor/xp0012b/index.shtml|XP Radar]]
    

  * 12/18.  Some Theory
    * See [[http://alistair.cockburn.us/Talks|Alistair Cockburn's Talk]]

===== Future classes =====
    * Intro. to retrospective.
    * Planning and Estimation (1).

  * **Week 6 (12/18)**
    * Early deployment + discussions.
    * Planning and Estimation (2).

  * Midterm week (12/25), New year holiday (1/1).  (//activities outside class.//)
    * Set up deployment environment so that each group can have short deployment cycle for its project.