Agile Project Management SS 2021

This course offers the possibility to gain profound experience in agile project management. Participants supervise a real project by coaching an international team of students in the iPraktikum and/or take on additional management task like leading the modeling, release management or code quality teams. All coaches meet weekly to discuss the current status, problems and future tasks with the course instructors.

Agile Project Management at a Glance

• Credits: 4/5 ETCS (Seminar) or 10 ECTS (Practical Course)
• Course type: Bachelor/Master Practical Course
• Note: in order to count as a 10 ECTS course, participating students additionally lead a cross-project team (e.g. Modeling, Release Management, Merge Management)
• Possible module numbers: IN0014, IN2107, IN0012, IN2106, IN2175, IN4554
• Participants: Limited to 10-15 students

Goals

• Coaching and motivation of an agile project team
• Hands-on experience in project management
• Real world application of agile methods (Scrum)
• Handling of challenges in projects and with team members

Application

We will soon update the information regarding the application process here. The application deadline will be January 31st 2021.

Schedule

Event/Meeting	Date	Time	Place	Purpose
Info Meeting	Wednesday, January 27th, 2021	09:00-10:00am	Online/Zoom	You get an overview about the course, its prerequisites and learning outcomes. We also inform you about the application process.
Coach Kickoff	TBA	TBA
Kickoff	TBA	TBA
Weekly Coach Meeting	TBA	TBA
Design Review	TBA	TBA
Client Acceptance Test	TBA	TBA

Prerequisites

Participating students have already taken part in a project at the chair of Prof. Bruegge (either as developer or as coach.)

Participating students are familiar with the concepts of agile software engineering (e.g. Scrum)

Participating students have several years of experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, e.g. Java, C++, C#, Objective-C or Swift

Participating students have excellent communication skills in English

Knowledge in the development of mobile applications (in particular iOS), in the field of Usability Engineering or in project management is beneficial