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, 14:00-17:15, MEK-122
Teams channel: ITI8740/ITX8522 Team Project (2025), regitration code: TBC
Moodle: https://moodle.taltech.ee/enrol/index.php?id=37860
Course archive: https://courses.cs.taltech.ee/pages/ITI8740_2025

Primary Goals

The primary purpose of the goal is to give an experience of discovering, specifying, developing, and documenting a real-life business problem. Also to organize 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 an established organization.
- ... formulated a problem statement and validated it with a real target audience.
- ... built a Minimal Viable (Lovable) Product that solves said problem.

Lectures

TBC

Reading Materials

• Book: Running Lean by Ash Maurya. https://danielpandza.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/running-lean.pdf

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