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, 16:00-19:15, U06-209
Teams channel: ITI8740/ITX8522 Team Project (2025), regitration code: itc8jau
Course archive: https://courses.cs.taltech.ee/pages/ITI8740_2024

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.

After the course you ...
- ... have an understanding of methods, tools and approaches that can be used when initiating a new startup or in-house project in established organization.
- ... formulated a problem statement and validated it on a real target audience.
- ... built a Minimal Viable (Lovable) Product that solves said problem.

Lectures

Week 1: Introduction. Painkillers, Vitamins, Candy.

Slides

Week 2: Presentation of ideas. Team formation

Home Assignment (September 11)

- Please think of the problem you want to solve and be ready to present it in 90 seconds.
- Check slides from Lecture 1 for guidance.
- Write down the answer to questions on slide 23 from lecture 1.
- Do not overthink - pick something you would like to do and what is also viable.

Completing the Course

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