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, ICT-411
Teams channel: ITI8740/ITX8522 Software Development Team Project (2023), regsitration code: luebnk4
Course archive: https://courses.cs.taltech.ee/pages/ITI8740_2022
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. Finding Problem to Solve
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.
Week 3: Introduction to Lean Startup
Assignment As a team please create an initial project environment, decide (see slides from lecture 2).
Week 4: Exercise in Lean Canvas
Week 5: Talking to Customers
Week 6: Development Process for MVP
Week 7: Flows. Wireframes. Domain Model
Week 8: Modelling Continued
Week 9 - 10: Content Hacking
As a homework: Create the wireframes desribed here: Assignment for class 8
Week 11: Metrics
Week 12: Introduction to Branding
Week 13: Guest lecture: Jaanus Sakkis
Guest lecture by Jaanus Sakkis [[1]], an experienced designer, UX expert and artist.
Week 14: Practical Branding
We will review and discuss the worksheets provided on week 12.
Week 15: Guest lecture
Märt Aro [2], a co-Founder of DreamApply, education innovator, edtech enthusiast, TEDx & keynote speaker will be sharing his startup experiences and lessons learned.
Read also: https://www.edtechestonia.org/blogi/10-things-to-keep-in-mind-when-starting-to-build-an-edtech
Week 16: TBC
Supplementary Materials
- (ebook) Ash Maruya. Running Lean
- (ebook) Getting Real
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