1. Software Engineering Projects2IP35 Autumn 2013

2. Today: kick-off • General information about the projects • Presentation by the customers • Groups subscribe to cases • Coupling of groups to cases

3. General information • A real project • A real customer • A team consists of 8-10 students • Separate project and quality manager (students 2IP45) • Each team has an advisor (staff member) • Timing • Available time: 12 Ects  336 hours per person • Start: September 2, 2013 • Deadline: October 25, 2013

4. Organization

5. Documentation • According to the ESA standard • Project documents: • SPMP: Software Project Management Plan • SVVP: Software Verification and Validation Plan • SCMP: Software Configuration Management Plan • SQAP: Software Quality Assurance Plan • Product documents: • URD: User Requirements Document • SRD: Software Requirements Document • ADD: Architectural Design Document • DDD: Detailed Design Document • SUM: Software User Manual • STD: Software Transfer Document • Project includes “provisional” acceptance, no maintenance • All product documents delivered to customer • All documents delivered to senior management

6. Project planning

7. Sprint planning

8. Scrum

9. Some project procedures • First requirements, than agile coding (scrum) • URD contains backlog list. • Some prototyping in early phase. • Tackle technical risks by advanced research • Formal review procedure of documents • Pre-check by advisor • Attention points from checklists • Customer involved in: • URD, SRD, SUM, and Acceptance Test review • Results and review metrics reported to senior management • Signature needed of customer and/or advisor • Reporting to management • Time metrics (weekly) • Progress (weekly) • Review metrics

10. Management roles and tasks • Project manager / scrum master • Planning: chairs planning sessions, stand up meetings, demos and retrospectives • Organizes scrum board, keeps back log up to date • Takes care that management documents are written • Reports progress to senior management: • Weekly progress sessions • Weekly e-mail metrics (time tracking) • Quality engineer / manager • Checks quality of documents • Takes care that reviews are held • Takes care that a proper testing environment is set up by the group • Enforces “continuous testing” approach • Organizes peer reviews

11. Devils triangle We have • Fixed budget • Fixed time

12. Group work • Write project plans • Work according to plans • Registration of hours spent • Divide work into work packages • Choose replacements for project manager, librarian and quality engineer • Write product documents • Advisor “helps” • One person responsible for customer contacts • Contacts with senior management via project manager • Facilities • Project rooms: MF 3.061, 3.104 • Network, (virtual) server

13. Formal meetings • Weekly project meetings • Total team, circa 1 hour • Headed by project manager • Preferably also advisor present • In the scrum phase: replaced by sprint planning, demo, retrospective. • Weekly progress meetings • Project manager, quality engineer and senior management • 20 minutes for each group, Monday • Document reviews • General meetings • Intermediate presentation: September 30, 2013 • URD, (part of) SRD, prototype • End presentation: October 21, 2013 • Project overview, product demo

14. Short term work • Define project name • Establish weekly meeting schedule • Contact between group and project manager • Contact advisor • Assign responsibilities • Write project plans • Look at examples from previous years (lead time decreased!) • Make inventory of available time (exams, holidays, …) • Start UR group (2-3 people) • Go to customer • Ask questions • Write iteratively versions of URD • Involve customer as much as possible • Set up development environment • Including configuration management • Perform research into technical questions • Read about scrum

15. Customer presentations • Paul Jansen (Bradon) • Peter Vink (TNO-ESI)