T-76.4115/5115Quality Award and Course Closing Ceremony

Aalto UniversitySchool of Science

9/7/2010

Agenda

• 16:15 Opening (Prof. Tomi Männistö/SoberIT)• 16:20 Summary of the projects (Jari Vanhanen & Timo

Lehtinen/SoberIT)• 16:45 Demos of the quality award candidates

– Hannotaatio– Team 9 – Team Partaveikot

• 17:45 Quality award (Hanna-Kaisa Seiro/Accenture)• 18:00 – 19:45 Dinner

Educational goals – Now you should have…• better understanding on the challenges involved in commercial sw development

– it is not just coding or solving technical problems …

• better understanding on selecting suitable practices and tools for your future projects– and on avoiding some unsuitable ones …

• gained general skills crucial for a sw development career– new technologies– management skills, social skills, presentation skills, writing skills– general project work, networking, internationalization

Changes to the course?

• The balance between– satisfying the customer– making educational exercises in a real context

• Duration of the course– two instead of three periods?

• The role of the mentors– more and more SE experts have already done the project once– a stakeholder emphasizing the educational goals still needed

Which concrete requirements set by the course did not contribute to the project or have educational value?

Course feedback form

• Mandatory part of all SoberIT courses– constructive improvement ideas appreciated

• Link in the course schedule

• Deadline Fr 18.3.2011– department closes all feedback forms then

The most important practices according to the teams• Working and learning together

– much more efficient and motivating than distributed work/working alone

– co-located team– pair programming, side-by-side programming

• Iterative development– two sprints per course’s iteration

Common challenges in the projects and some possible solutions• Observations from the root

cause analyses (RCA) with 11 groups

– two sessions (I1 & I2)

• Analyzing the causes of the problem

– “It was challenging to reach the project goals”

• Why?

Evaluation – Final course grade

Evaluation – Project’s results

• Customer– compares to the original/updated project goals

– some compensation if the customer caused problems to the project

• Mentor– compares to typical projects on this course

– difficulty of the project +/- a few points

Grades

• 1-Team One 5• 2-Team Partaveikot 5• 3-Hannotaatio 5• 4-MoodleMania 3• 5-TMNT 5• 6-Team Kuudes 4• 7-Qknights 4

• 8-Androids 4• 9-Team Nine 5• 10-Aalto Anonymous 4• 11-AFFD 4• 12-Mixed Apples 3• 13-Aalto Connect 4• 14-Aalto4Good 5

Some changes (+/-1 grade) have been done within groups

Please, check carefully the correctness of your course version, credit points, and personal grade!

Mentoriksi ensi lukuvuonna?

• Työ on – mielenkiintoista– opettavaista– palkitsevaa

• Työmäärä ~70t (2 ryhmää)– lokakuu-helmikuu– työhön tutustuminen– mentor-palaverit– iteraatiodemot– muu ohjaus ja seuranta– arvostelut ja arvostelupalaverit

Thank you!

• Students• Customers• Mentors• All involved teachers from SoberIT• SoberIT computer administrators• Accenture