Part 0: Advance preparation

Even before the course officially starts, you should preferably begin to form teams and discuss product ideas. For an external project, making contact early is particularly important.

Please register for the course as soon as possible. Registration opens 2020-03-12.
Note: students who do not fulfill the admission criteria cannot take the course, and are blocked from registration.

Part 1: Preparation

Summary: learn Scrum, learn Git, form teams, get your product idea approved.

Even before the official course start, you can begin to form teams, discuss product ideas, learn Scrum, etcetera.

Install the teleconferencing tool Zoom. You will need it. Please see the "Telecommuting" page for details.
Read the course book.
Course start and introductory lecture. Thursday, 2020-03-19 at 13:15-15:00. This lecture, and all other activities in the course, can only be attended remotely using Zoom. Please see the "Telecommuting" page for details.
First seminar on the Git version-management system. Tuesday, 24 March at 13:15-15:00, using Zoom.
Try Git yourself.
Find friends and suggest a team. E-mail examiner about your suggestion. Deadline: Wednesday, 2020-03-25. Please note, that the examiner may assign students to teams in ways that do not match your suggestion.
Finish all quizzes, with no more than one incorrect answer on each quiz. Deadline: 2020-03-26 for the first three quizzes, 2020-04-02 for the later quizzes.
Second seminar on the Git version-management system. Thursday, 26 March at 13:15-15:00, using Zoom.
First meeting with the teachers, to discuss product ideas. Held separately for each team. 30-31 March.
Second meeting with the teachers, to discuss product ideas. Held separately for each team. 2-3 April.
Project Start. Monday, 2020-04-20, at 08:00 (sharp, not fifteen minutes later).

Part 2: Sprints

Summary: develop product.

Sprint 1: 20-24 April. Sprint 2: 27 April through 4 May. Sprint 3: 5-11 May. Sprint 4: 12-18 May. Note: 1 May is not a working-day.

Before first sprint: backlog refinement meeting, preferably with product owner. To this meeting, you should bring:
- several copies of the User Story Form (use an electronic version),
- pen and note-paper.
Morning of first day of first sprint: sprint planning.
Afternoon of first day of first sprint, and three days more: product design and implementation.
Last day of first sprint: sprint demo. Time and location to be announced.
Last day of first sprint: sprint retrospective (one hour, time booked separately).
Last day of first sprint: backlog refinement and fixing things in general.
The second, third, and fourth sprint look like the first one, only better!

Part 3: Expo and Reflection

Summary: show product, reflect on project to improve your ways of working.

After the fourth sprint: a public project expo. 2020-05-19.
After the expo: cleaning the project rooms (if rooms were used). 2020-05-19.
After the project weeks: submit an Individual Project Reflection. Deadline: 2020-06-01.

Links to pages

Expo
Expo: Instructions for Teams
Last Sprint Demo and Retrospective
End of Sprint 3 and start of Sprint 4
Tuesday, 5 May: Start of Sprint 3
Monday, 4 May: End of the second sprint
Monday, 27 April: Start of Sprint 2
Friday, 24 April: End of the first sprint
The Introductory Lecture
Git Seminars
First Meeting for Discussion of Product Ideas
Second Meeting for Discussion of Product Ideas
Buying Hardware
Things You Need To Know
Telecommuting
Current and Finished Projects
Documents
External Projects
Practices and Tools
Examination