ITI8740
Course: ITI8740 Software Development Team project
Course alias: ITX8522 Software Entrepreneurship Project
Lecturer: Martin Verrev
Language: Estonian/English
Credit Points: 12 ECT
Contact: martin.verrev ätt taltech.ee, ICT-422
Date, time, location: Thursdays, 16:00-17:30, ICT-411
Teams channel: ITI8740/ITX8522 Software Development Team Project (2024), regitration code: dvmberq
Course archive: https://courses.cs.taltech.ee/pages/ITI8740_2023
Primary Goals
The primary purpose of the goal is to give an experience of analysing, specifing, developing and documenting a a real life business problem. Also to organize a teamwork and apply agile development methods to solve said problem.
Lectures
Week 1: Introduction. Painkillers, Vitamins, Candy.
Week 2: Presentation of ideas. Team formation
Assignment: Please think of the problem you want to solve and be ready to present it in 90 seconds. Do not overthink - pick something you would like to do. Check slides from the first lecture.
Week 3: Introduction to Lean Startup
Week 4: The Lean Canvas
Week 5: Canvas Continued. Minimal Viable Product
Week 6: Flows, Wireframes, Data.
Week 7: Guest Lecture - Brand Value
The guest lecture by Toomas Verrev (https://ee.linkedin.com/in/toomas-verrev-a522231a) will take place remotely on Teams.
Week 8: Excercises in Figma
Slides
Additional excercise: try to replicate this image
Week 9: Content Hacking
Week 10: Team Demos/The Mom Test
Demo Structure
Slides
Practice Excercise
Lecture 11: Guest Lecture - Venture Capital
Lecture 12: Talking to the Customers
For updated slides check the slides from week 10
Lecture 13: Metrics
Lecture 14 Branding: Positioning
Lecture 14 Practical Branding: Positioning
Lecture 15: Practical Branding: Name. Logo. Colors.
Lecture 16: Pitching and Presentations
Completing the Course
The course will complete with a demo day before January 15, 2024.
By the end of the course:
- MVP has been completed and is usable by external users.
- User testing has been completed on MVP, real feedback.
- Spoken at least with 1 real customer, attempted seed funding.
- Figured out and validated pricing model.
- ...
- Have compiled project documentation.
Evaluation
- 91 < score -- grade 5 (excellent)
- 81 < score < 90 -- grade 4 (very good)
- 71 < score < 80 -- grade 3 (good)
- 61 < score < 70 -- grade 2 (satisfactory)
- 51 < score < 60 -- grade 1 (acceptable)
score ≤ 50 -- a student has failed the course