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.

Slides

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.

Slides

Week 3: Introduction to Lean Startup

TBC

Completing the Course

The course will complete with a set of presentations by each student and 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 catering provider/accommodation venue.
• 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