• Students taking this course must join the course google group to get announcements and to participate in discussions.

• 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.

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

• Discussions.
• Basic concepts: changes, debt, values, principles, and practices. – slides-odp slides-pdf
• Super quick intro. to various agile practices. – slides-odp slides-pdf

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

Links:

• Agile Manifesto
• Martin Fowler: Technical Debt, Technical Debt Quadrant

• Concept: Values, principles, and practices.
• Scrum.
• Technical practices: managing codebase
• Discussion on development environment. (By appointment)
• Trying to improve the environment. (If possible)

• More on scrum.
• Technical practices: refactoring.
• User stories.

• How to maintain your code base.
• Technical practice: unit testing, TDD.

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

• 12/9. Agile Estimating and Planing
  • Many useful slides at Mountain Goat Software
• 12/11. Practice: unit testing, TDD (again)

• 12/16. Intro to Retrospective (also include the course retrospective)
  • Agile Retrospective Resource Wiki
  • XP Radar

• 12/18. Some Theory
  • See Alistair Cockburn's Talk

• 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.