Course Timeline

This page summarizes the course, in timeline form.

There may be small changes before the course starts. If a change must be done during the course, there will be a relevant announcement about the change here in Canvas.

Most important links: Things You Need To Know, Individual Project Reflection.

Useful links: Current and Finished Projects, Documents, Practices and Tools (updated 2023-04-20), Course-PM 2023.

Old links: First Sprint Demo, Retrospective, and more, Second Sprint Demo and Retrospective, Third Sprint Demo and Retrospective, Last Sprint Demo and more, Expo: Instructions for Teams, Expo 2023.

Contact: e-mail flu@kth.se

Part 0: Advance preparation

Even before the course officially starts, you should preferably begin to discuss product ideas. For an external project, making contact early is particularly important.

Please register for the course as soon as possible. Registration opens 2023-03-16.

Part 1: Preparation

Summary: learn Scrum, learn Git, get your team together, get your product idea approved.

Even before the official course start, you can discuss product ideas, learn Scrum, etcetera.

Read the course book.
Install Git on your computer. Git is a command-line system for version management of source-code for programs and other stuff.
Course start and introductory lecture, Wednesday, 2023-03-22 at 13:15-15:00.
First video seminar on the Git version-management system. Link: Git Seminars
Try Git yourself.
Second video seminar on the Git version-management system. Link: Git Seminars
Finish the quizzes on Scrum (quizzes number 1, 2, 3 and 4).
Teamwork Exercise and Scrum Exercise. Date and time to be announced.
First meeting with the teachers, to discuss product ideas. Held separately for each team. 29-31 March. Highly recommended, but not obligatory.
Finish all quizzes, with no more than one incorrect answer on each quiz. Deadline: 2022-04-03 for all quizzes.
Second meeting with the teachers, to get a product idea approved. Held separately for each team. 4-6 April. Obligatory.
Project Start. Monday, 2022-04-17, at 08:01 exactly (not fifteen minutes later). Obligatory attendance.

Part 2: Sprints

Summary: develop product. Attendance is obligatory during all sprints.

Sprint 1: 17-21 April. Sprint 2: 24-28 April. Sprint 3: 2-5 May. Sprint 4: 8-12 May.

During the sprints, you work every day (Monday through Friday), from 8:00 to 17:00, with a one-hour lunch break.

Before first sprint: backlog refinement meeting, preferably with product owner.
Morning of first day of first sprint: sprint planning.
Afternoon of first day of first sprint, and three days more: product design and implementation.
Last day of first sprint: sprint demo. Times announced separately.
Last day of first sprint: sprint retrospective (one hour, time booked separately).
Last day of first sprint: backlog refinement and fixing things in general.
The second, third, and fourth sprint look like the first one, only better!

Part 3: Expo and Reflection

Summary: show product, reflect on project to improve your ways of working.

After the fourth sprint: on 2023-05-15, create an online exhibition of your project, open to the general public. Obligatory attendance.
The online exhibition is open from Monday, 2023-05-15 at 13:00-16:00 and Tuesday, 2023-05-16, from 9:00-16:00. During these days, the group must provide answers to questions, and other suitable feedback to visitors. A messaging format is okay. You don't have to be online all the time during these two days.
Each group compiles their questions, answers and feedback into a document. The document is submitted in Canvas. Deadline: 2023-05-16.
After the project weeks: each student submits an Individual Project Reflection. Deadline: 2023-05-31.