ITI8740

Course: ITI8740 Software Development Team project
Course alias: ITX8522 Software Entrepreneurship Project
Lecturer: Martin Verrev
Assistant Lecturer: Roger Kerse
Langugage: English
Credit Points: 12 ECT
Contact: martin.verrev ätt taltech.ee, ICT-422
Date, time, location: Fridays, 11:30-13:00, ICT-411
Teams channel: ITI8740/ITX8522 Software Development Team Project (2021), regsitration code: 3aj67fd

Final Presentations. Monday January 17, 16:00 at ICT-411

The final presentations will take place in person.

The format presentations is:

Pitch (3 minutes) - here you will give an overview of your progress as to investors or general audience.
Technical presentation (7 minutes) - as the pitch cannot cover technical details, this is the opportunity to cover those.
Discussion (10 minutes)

The recommended pitch structure is: 1. Intro (10 sec) Who are you? One memorable sentence about your idea.
2. Why, Who, What (90 sec) What is the value you are creating? Who is the target whose problem you are solving?
3. Future vision, business model (40 sec). What is the potential for growth. What is the plan to make money? How to get to customers?
4. Team (20 sec) What relevan experience does the team have.
5. End statement. Finish your pitch with a strong statement.

No slides for the pitch - you have a great application. 2 people needed for demo - one is pitching and the other behind computer showing the prototype. Practice!

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

Six great ideas were presented during the class on September 10. Please mark your favorite idea via the form on Google Forms below.

We will finalize the team formation in Lecture 3. Do not hesitate to contact the lecturer on Teams if you want to change the idea description or add another. You can change your selection if you want.

Feel free to discuss the ideas in Teams - there is a channel just for that.

The form to choose a team

Week 3: Finalizing Teams & Introduction to Lean Startup

Lecture Slides

Week 4: Documenting Plan A: The Lean Canvas

Lecture Slides

Week 5: Meeting with supervisor.

Meetings with supervisors are arranged on Teams.

Week 10: Metrics

We will have team demos at the beginning of the session.
Lecture Slides

Week 11: Intro to Branding

Guest lecture was recorded and is available on Teams.
Lecture Slides

Week 12: Excercise in Branding

Lecture Slides
Excercise sheets were distributed in Teams under "Files -> Branding Excercises"

Week 13: Content Hacking

Lecture Slides
List of resources

Week 14: Seminar/Questions

Seminar will take place online in AMA format

Week 15: Pitch Training

In class ICT-411, 17:00 Pitch training will be run by Kieren Lovell in class.

Week 16: Final Session

Guest lecture by Märt Ridala

Assignments

Description of Final Assignment

Final Documentation for ITI8740 (2021)

For lecture 4, September 24

Three teams were formed during class 3: see the list By lecture 4 please complete the following assignments:

Team Assignment

Create project environment to TUT Gitlab: https://gitlab.cs.ttu.ee/
Have a kick-off meeting amongst team
Create initial project wiki with the minimal of:
- List of team members and roles. Decide on team lead
- Initial idea description (max 0.5 A4)
Set up issue tracker
Have a kick-off meeting and write down general project agreements. Please find the template here

Individual Assignment

Read Chapter 1 from "Running Lean" book: Ash Maruya. Running Lean It will give a good and actionable understanding of the Lean Startup process that we will practice during the course. We may have a small test ;)

Supplementary Materials

Ebook: Ash Maruya. Running Lean
Ebook: Getting Real
Tool: CNVS - Tool for creating the lean canvas

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