ITI8740

Course: ITI8740 Software Development Team project
Course alias: ITX8522 Software Entrepreneurship Project
Lecturer: Martin Verrev
Langugage: English
Credit Points: 12 ECT
Contact: martin.verrev ätt taltech.ee, ICT-422
Date, time, location: Thursdays, 16:00-17:30/19:00, ICT-411
Teams channel: ITI8740/ITX8522 Software Development Team Project (2022), regsitration code: i158tsx
Archive from 2021: https://courses.cs.ttu.ee/pages/ITI8740_2021

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 mehtods to solve said problem.

Lectures

Week 1: Introduction. Finding Problem to Solve

Slides

Week 2: Presenting Ideas & Forming the Teams

Homework: 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.

Slides

Week 3: Introduction to Lean Startup, Lean Canvas

Homework: Please decide on the problem to be solved and create initial project environment (see slides from week 2)

Slides

Week 4: Talking to Customers. Mom Test

Homework: Please create the canvas for your initial idea and share it in wiki on Gitlab.

Slides

Week 5: The Business Value

Guest lecture by Märt Ridala: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mart-ridala

Week 6: Minimal Viable Product

Slides

Week 7: Flows. Wireframes. Data

Slides

Week 8: Team Demos. Modelling Continued

We shall have small demos (max 10 minute per team) at the beginnign of the class. The demo should cover the followning points:

• Overview, purpose and scope of the project.
• Primary features being built.
• Validation - how it was done and what was learned?
• Outcomes - what has been implemented so far (and what not)
• Lessons learned
• Science behind (if at this point)
• Next Steps

Classroom Excercise in Rapid Prototyping

Excercise Description

Week 9-10 Content Hacking

Slides

Week 11. Metrics

[TBC]