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Premium member Presentation Transcript Project management course: experience from the first year and second version Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Putnik, University of Novi Sad: Project management course: experience from the first year and second version Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Putnik, University of Novi Sad SPM – Modification and improvement: SPM – Modification and improvement 2 Weeks (January 2006, DAAD support) Prof. Klaus Bothe, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Modification and improvements of existing material (presentations) Additional sources Internet sources Books T. DeMarco, T. Lister, Waltzing with Bears, Managing Risk on Software Projects, Dorset House Publishing, 1998, (for additional, further topic) P. Martin, K. Tate, Getting started in Project Management, John Wiley andamp; Sons, Prof. Dr. Holger Schlingloff slides (Humboldt University, mostly for HR topics) Course Organization: Course Organization IV year students of Business Informatics, 14 students + significant number of voluntaries – concluded that course could be useful for them based on experience of previous generation of students VIII semester, 2 hrs lecture, 1 hr exercises Exam and final mark: 1/5 of points obtained by regular class attendance Practical assignment in MS Project Continual assessment (3 times during semester) Questionnaire of 10-20 different kinds of questions (multiple-choice, short answers, …) Final questionnaire (improve results obtained during semester, for those who missed some of questionnaires) Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management (students’ opinion is that part is extremely interesting and useful) SPM - Introduction: SPM - Introduction Essential project properties Classifications of projects What is software, management Tasks of management, Why projects fail Activities of project management Real world example Project Management Body Of Knowledge, general overview Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – CMM and process improvement: SPM – CMM and process improvement Software Process, Improvement, Process Improvement Frameworks Quagmire Maturity Models, Improvement levels, Level Requirements CMM Integration and benefits Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Cost estimation and COCOMO : SPM – Cost estimation and COCOMO Software cost estimation, general information and some techniques, problems Quality and productivity COCOMO and COCOMO II model Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Software measurement and metrics: SPM – Software measurement and metrics Software Measurement, Classification Project Metrics, Typical Metrics Defects, Removal Efficiency Software Metrics Classification Personnel Metrics Hardware Metrics Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Planning : SPM – Planning Kinds of planning (Time, Capacity, Cost) Net-planning (rules, steps, activity lists, critical paths) Management of big software projects, PERT Technique, MPM: Metra-Potential-Method Gantt chart Tools and algorithms Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Ethical issues: SPM – Ethical issues Ethics introduction Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Conduct Computer Ethics, Computer Crime, Privacy and Anonymity, Intellectual Property, Professional Responsibility Case Study: 10 Big Myths about copyright Case Study: E – Voting Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management Human resources and management: Human resources and management Managing conflicts (27) Communication techniques (27) Moderation (29) Attitude theories (50) Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises Exercises are organized on-the-need bases. During the first few weeks, students were introduced to the body-of-knowledge for the subject, so there was nothing to practice on. On some of the following weeks, professor needed additional classes to manage all of the material. The first 'real' exercises were held in connection with the 'Planning' topic. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises After theoretical lesson about planning, exercises were held using MS Project software. It was first presented theoretically at a 3-hour class On another 3-hour class, it is presented 'practically' (using representative examples) After that, students had 4 hours of practical work, to gain experience with MS Project Additionally, this year our e-Learning favourite Moodle was used to help with MS Project too. Elements from MS Project help system were translated, adjusted, and situated as an e-Lesson in Moodle system. Lucky us – those are the same students that have usernames, passwords, and knowledge of Moodle from the SE course. Finally, students were given a software project that they have to manage using MS Project, in a classroom, or at home This project served as a part of the exam Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises Students had to manage a project: 'Organization of a scientific conference' (new example, but similar to previous one) Students were given a written material, and one lecture about 'how conferences are organized in a real life'. They were also given a use-case type of a document for all of the activities in connection with the conference organization. Assistant for this subject was a working member of 12 conferences so far. Real-life. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises This allowed us to present a lot of possibilities of MS Project. One additional possibility is to 'torture' students until they create a satisfactory project. This possibility was not over-used, there was only one student that completely missed the point (or tried to manage this part of the exam as-easy-as-possible). He had to do it all over again, this time almost perfectly. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises 'Practical' exercises were also held on a topic of ethical aspects! 10 situations from a programmers real or imaginary life were presented to the students. Stories were read and discussed during a class, each new one receiving bigger and better reception (maybe because a choice of order of stories?) This part of exercises had a very good reception last year, so we were looking forward to this years’ happening. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises Unfortunately for us, the exercises were held during the week while a lot of students went to a final-year 7-days excursion. This IS something NO exercise could compete with! All of the students who were present – yet, only about 1/3 of a group – actively participated in a discussion, all of them had an idea, an opinion, a thought, and were willing to share it with the others Actually, there WERE some of them not too willing to participate at first, but in such a small group, with others presenting their thoughts, with the assistant asking them for their opinions directly, they became involved in a short time! Another theme students were willing to participate in was a case study on 'e-mail etiquette'. They were adding their suggestions to the presented material throughout the whole lesson! Final Exam Results: Final Exam Results Of 14 students, 12 successfully finished their practical assignment last year. This year – 11 (out of 14) students solved the practical assignment so far. (Additional 2 are currently in USA). Marks: 7 – once, 8 – eight times, 9 – three times This year 7 – once, 8 – twice, 9 – five times, 10 –three times Final Exam Results: Final Exam Results Of 12 students eligible for exam, 11 showed up, each one passing both tests, marks 6 – 10. (last year) After that, they accepted offered marks. This year – 9 out of 11 showed up, and accepted marks. (The last 2 finished their project during this summer. Through e-mail conversation they agreed to their marks and will approach the exam in September.) Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Effort: Attendance 5 - 100% 1 - 20% Post-processing [lectures] Hours Post-processing [assignments] Hours Students attended 50% of the lectures on the average, and it took them 1.7 hour post-processing time for lectures and the assignments. (2005) ….. more than 80% …. 2.7 hours! (2006) Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Contents: Amount of knowledge 5 - Too much 1- Too few Contents 5 - Too easy 1 - Too difficult Course well structured 5 - Very well 1 – Unstructured Students assessed that they received (2005) 'perfect amount' of knowledge, (3,00) 'almost perfect' content, (3,20) but the structure of the course was just 'average'. (2,86) Almost the same! (2006) The only difference was the improvement in the structure (it is 3,20). Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Needed pre-knowledge?: SE + English (5x) Experience. Not too much - just basics of everything Needed pre-knowledge was assessed usually as: 'nothing', 'a little bit of everything', 'experience', and with 40% of students as 'Software Engineering + English language' (2005). Almost the same! (2006) (percent a bit higher!) Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Which topics in Serbian?: Lectures in Serbian slides in English (1x) All (11 x) None (1x) Percent of students thinking that they need slides in Serbian was even higher. This wasn’t possible till now, because slides are still changing, yet we are seriously considering this option. Students Opinion – Questionnaire: Students Opinion – Questionnaire Style of the lectures: According to the questionnaire, we improved on almost every issue: Mark (last year) Wanted mark Lecturer familiar 4.10 (4.00) 5 Lectures well prepared 4.10 (3.50) 5 Lecturer engaged 4.10 (3.64) 5 Willingness to answer students' questions 4.50 (4.92) 5 Presentation 4.50 (4.70) 3 Presentation style encourage to follow the lecture 3.00 (2.90) 5 Remarks: This year, we had one interesting idea: '… some of the lectures should be given to students – that would be more interesting and engaging …' Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Using media Amount of info on 5 - Very well 1 - Not so much slides adequate Slides well structured 5 - Very well 1 - Not so much and clearly organized Average marks last year: 'amount of info adequate' 3.14 'slides well structured and clearly organized' 3.29 This year, after some improvements, marks were significantly higher: 'amount of info adequate' 4.50 'slides well structured and clearly organized' 3.90 Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Assignments: Difficulty 5 -Too high 1 -Too low Motivating 5 -Very much 1 -Not so much Similar with the assignments: 'difficulty to solve' 2.36 'motivating' 3.14 In 2006. season: 'difficulty to solve' 3.14 'motivating' 3.29 Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Benefit of the course: New things learned 5 – Much 1 -Not so much Contents useful 5 –Completely 1 -Not so much Overall rank of the course 5 - Very well 1 - Bad Average marks for a course improved: New things learned 3.25 (2005) 4.00 Contents useful 3.75 (2005) 3.70 Overall rank 3.83 (2005) 4.10 This year, we asked students how important for them is that the course is internationally supported. On a scale of 5 (very) to 1 (not at all), the mark was 4!!! Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Remarks: Overall comments of the course, for the last year (2005) were: 'Everything OK. Everything according to curriculum. Good and useful. Very useful' but also: 'Pure theory, not connected to real life. Lack of practical lessons evident. Not connected to students’ experiences (?)' This year (2006), comments were: 'Ethical issues and Human resources – interesting and very important' Lecturer’s Opinion: Lecturer’s Opinion Positive Good and representative material (topics) Prepared slides, acceptable quality, coverage to final version Acceptable level of familiarity, preparation of additional topics (Risk management, Agile project management, Methodologies of Software Project Management) Negative A lot of different sources – maybe further refinement is needed Static structure of slides, too much text, introduction of animation and graphics Further readings and deeper involvement in whole material, introduction of other software tools for project management Conclusion: Conclusion Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM Further improvement is (needed) expected Questionnaire results are satisfied (better then obtained last year) Better and more student-oriented organization of practical work and exercises (work in real environment) – permanent problem Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM : Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM 1 year project for modification of existing course Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM The course will cover the following topics (the order will be influenced by the order of practical assignments): Introduction to project management Communications management Software process models Deeper coverage of some software process models Quality of software development process and its standardization Project management processes according to PMBOK and life-cycle processes (primary, supporting, organizational) Assessment procedures: ISO, SPICE, PSP (Personal Software Process), TSP (Team Software Process), CMM (Capability Maturity Model), SPICE, … Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM The course will cover the following topics (the order will be influenced by the order of practical assignments): Project management Feasibility study, the role in requirements engineering, … Cost estimation and COCOMO model Risk analysis Tracking (tools, metrics, …) Methodologies of Software Project Management: RUP, Prince, ... Software process metrics Maintenance and maintenance metrics Advanced topics in Professional Responsibilities and Computer Ethics Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM Teaching Methodology Lectures will be supported by animated, multimedia ‚power-point' slides. Handouts for these slides will be delivered to students after the lecture. We also plan to write and publish a textbook for the course. During practical exercises students (divided into teams) will 'simulate' the real-world process of managing the software project. During the life of the project teams would exchange roles in order to better appreciate: the role of proper documentation throughout the life of project and the difference between managing and 'doing'. 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Premium member Presentation Transcript Project management course: experience from the first year and second version Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Putnik, University of Novi Sad: Project management course: experience from the first year and second version Mirjana Ivanović, Zoran Putnik, University of Novi Sad SPM – Modification and improvement: SPM – Modification and improvement 2 Weeks (January 2006, DAAD support) Prof. Klaus Bothe, Institut für Informatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Modification and improvements of existing material (presentations) Additional sources Internet sources Books T. DeMarco, T. Lister, Waltzing with Bears, Managing Risk on Software Projects, Dorset House Publishing, 1998, (for additional, further topic) P. Martin, K. Tate, Getting started in Project Management, John Wiley andamp; Sons, Prof. Dr. Holger Schlingloff slides (Humboldt University, mostly for HR topics) Course Organization: Course Organization IV year students of Business Informatics, 14 students + significant number of voluntaries – concluded that course could be useful for them based on experience of previous generation of students VIII semester, 2 hrs lecture, 1 hr exercises Exam and final mark: 1/5 of points obtained by regular class attendance Practical assignment in MS Project Continual assessment (3 times during semester) Questionnaire of 10-20 different kinds of questions (multiple-choice, short answers, …) Final questionnaire (improve results obtained during semester, for those who missed some of questionnaires) Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management (students’ opinion is that part is extremely interesting and useful) SPM - Introduction: SPM - Introduction Essential project properties Classifications of projects What is software, management Tasks of management, Why projects fail Activities of project management Real world example Project Management Body Of Knowledge, general overview Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – CMM and process improvement: SPM – CMM and process improvement Software Process, Improvement, Process Improvement Frameworks Quagmire Maturity Models, Improvement levels, Level Requirements CMM Integration and benefits Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Cost estimation and COCOMO : SPM – Cost estimation and COCOMO Software cost estimation, general information and some techniques, problems Quality and productivity COCOMO and COCOMO II model Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Software measurement and metrics: SPM – Software measurement and metrics Software Measurement, Classification Project Metrics, Typical Metrics Defects, Removal Efficiency Software Metrics Classification Personnel Metrics Hardware Metrics Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Planning : SPM – Planning Kinds of planning (Time, Capacity, Cost) Net-planning (rules, steps, activity lists, critical paths) Management of big software projects, PERT Technique, MPM: Metra-Potential-Method Gantt chart Tools and algorithms Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management SPM – Ethical issues: SPM – Ethical issues Ethics introduction Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Conduct Computer Ethics, Computer Crime, Privacy and Anonymity, Intellectual Property, Professional Responsibility Case Study: 10 Big Myths about copyright Case Study: E – Voting Content of Course Lectures: Content of Course Lectures Introduction + general overview of PMBOK (117 slides – now 116+74) IT management (59 +132) – avoided this year, a lot of overlapping subjects with other topics CMM and process improvement (51 – now 56) Cost estimation and COCOMO (71 – now 84) Software measurement and metrics (51 – now 55) Planning (77) Using tools - Microsoft project (65, Exercise) Ethical issues (87 – now 90, + Exercise) NEW - Human resources and management Human resources and management: Human resources and management Managing conflicts (27) Communication techniques (27) Moderation (29) Attitude theories (50) Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises Exercises are organized on-the-need bases. During the first few weeks, students were introduced to the body-of-knowledge for the subject, so there was nothing to practice on. On some of the following weeks, professor needed additional classes to manage all of the material. The first 'real' exercises were held in connection with the 'Planning' topic. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises After theoretical lesson about planning, exercises were held using MS Project software. It was first presented theoretically at a 3-hour class On another 3-hour class, it is presented 'practically' (using representative examples) After that, students had 4 hours of practical work, to gain experience with MS Project Additionally, this year our e-Learning favourite Moodle was used to help with MS Project too. Elements from MS Project help system were translated, adjusted, and situated as an e-Lesson in Moodle system. Lucky us – those are the same students that have usernames, passwords, and knowledge of Moodle from the SE course. Finally, students were given a software project that they have to manage using MS Project, in a classroom, or at home This project served as a part of the exam Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises Students had to manage a project: 'Organization of a scientific conference' (new example, but similar to previous one) Students were given a written material, and one lecture about 'how conferences are organized in a real life'. They were also given a use-case type of a document for all of the activities in connection with the conference organization. Assistant for this subject was a working member of 12 conferences so far. Real-life. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises This allowed us to present a lot of possibilities of MS Project. One additional possibility is to 'torture' students until they create a satisfactory project. This possibility was not over-used, there was only one student that completely missed the point (or tried to manage this part of the exam as-easy-as-possible). He had to do it all over again, this time almost perfectly. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises 'Practical' exercises were also held on a topic of ethical aspects! 10 situations from a programmers real or imaginary life were presented to the students. Stories were read and discussed during a class, each new one receiving bigger and better reception (maybe because a choice of order of stories?) This part of exercises had a very good reception last year, so we were looking forward to this years’ happening. Organization of Exercises: Organization of Exercises Unfortunately for us, the exercises were held during the week while a lot of students went to a final-year 7-days excursion. This IS something NO exercise could compete with! All of the students who were present – yet, only about 1/3 of a group – actively participated in a discussion, all of them had an idea, an opinion, a thought, and were willing to share it with the others Actually, there WERE some of them not too willing to participate at first, but in such a small group, with others presenting their thoughts, with the assistant asking them for their opinions directly, they became involved in a short time! Another theme students were willing to participate in was a case study on 'e-mail etiquette'. They were adding their suggestions to the presented material throughout the whole lesson! Final Exam Results: Final Exam Results Of 14 students, 12 successfully finished their practical assignment last year. This year – 11 (out of 14) students solved the practical assignment so far. (Additional 2 are currently in USA). Marks: 7 – once, 8 – eight times, 9 – three times This year 7 – once, 8 – twice, 9 – five times, 10 –three times Final Exam Results: Final Exam Results Of 12 students eligible for exam, 11 showed up, each one passing both tests, marks 6 – 10. (last year) After that, they accepted offered marks. This year – 9 out of 11 showed up, and accepted marks. (The last 2 finished their project during this summer. Through e-mail conversation they agreed to their marks and will approach the exam in September.) Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Effort: Attendance 5 - 100% 1 - 20% Post-processing [lectures] Hours Post-processing [assignments] Hours Students attended 50% of the lectures on the average, and it took them 1.7 hour post-processing time for lectures and the assignments. (2005) ….. more than 80% …. 2.7 hours! (2006) Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Contents: Amount of knowledge 5 - Too much 1- Too few Contents 5 - Too easy 1 - Too difficult Course well structured 5 - Very well 1 – Unstructured Students assessed that they received (2005) 'perfect amount' of knowledge, (3,00) 'almost perfect' content, (3,20) but the structure of the course was just 'average'. (2,86) Almost the same! (2006) The only difference was the improvement in the structure (it is 3,20). Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Needed pre-knowledge?: SE + English (5x) Experience. Not too much - just basics of everything Needed pre-knowledge was assessed usually as: 'nothing', 'a little bit of everything', 'experience', and with 40% of students as 'Software Engineering + English language' (2005). Almost the same! (2006) (percent a bit higher!) Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Which topics in Serbian?: Lectures in Serbian slides in English (1x) All (11 x) None (1x) Percent of students thinking that they need slides in Serbian was even higher. This wasn’t possible till now, because slides are still changing, yet we are seriously considering this option. Students Opinion – Questionnaire: Students Opinion – Questionnaire Style of the lectures: According to the questionnaire, we improved on almost every issue: Mark (last year) Wanted mark Lecturer familiar 4.10 (4.00) 5 Lectures well prepared 4.10 (3.50) 5 Lecturer engaged 4.10 (3.64) 5 Willingness to answer students' questions 4.50 (4.92) 5 Presentation 4.50 (4.70) 3 Presentation style encourage to follow the lecture 3.00 (2.90) 5 Remarks: This year, we had one interesting idea: '… some of the lectures should be given to students – that would be more interesting and engaging …' Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Using media Amount of info on 5 - Very well 1 - Not so much slides adequate Slides well structured 5 - Very well 1 - Not so much and clearly organized Average marks last year: 'amount of info adequate' 3.14 'slides well structured and clearly organized' 3.29 This year, after some improvements, marks were significantly higher: 'amount of info adequate' 4.50 'slides well structured and clearly organized' 3.90 Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Assignments: Difficulty 5 -Too high 1 -Too low Motivating 5 -Very much 1 -Not so much Similar with the assignments: 'difficulty to solve' 2.36 'motivating' 3.14 In 2006. season: 'difficulty to solve' 3.14 'motivating' 3.29 Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Benefit of the course: New things learned 5 – Much 1 -Not so much Contents useful 5 –Completely 1 -Not so much Overall rank of the course 5 - Very well 1 - Bad Average marks for a course improved: New things learned 3.25 (2005) 4.00 Contents useful 3.75 (2005) 3.70 Overall rank 3.83 (2005) 4.10 This year, we asked students how important for them is that the course is internationally supported. On a scale of 5 (very) to 1 (not at all), the mark was 4!!! Students Opinion – Questionnaire : Students Opinion – Questionnaire Remarks: Overall comments of the course, for the last year (2005) were: 'Everything OK. Everything according to curriculum. Good and useful. Very useful' but also: 'Pure theory, not connected to real life. Lack of practical lessons evident. Not connected to students’ experiences (?)' This year (2006), comments were: 'Ethical issues and Human resources – interesting and very important' Lecturer’s Opinion: Lecturer’s Opinion Positive Good and representative material (topics) Prepared slides, acceptable quality, coverage to final version Acceptable level of familiarity, preparation of additional topics (Risk management, Agile project management, Methodologies of Software Project Management) Negative A lot of different sources – maybe further refinement is needed Static structure of slides, too much text, introduction of animation and graphics Further readings and deeper involvement in whole material, introduction of other software tools for project management Conclusion: Conclusion Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM Further improvement is (needed) expected Questionnaire results are satisfied (better then obtained last year) Better and more student-oriented organization of practical work and exercises (work in real environment) – permanent problem Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM : Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM 1 year project for modification of existing course Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM The course will cover the following topics (the order will be influenced by the order of practical assignments): Introduction to project management Communications management Software process models Deeper coverage of some software process models Quality of software development process and its standardization Project management processes according to PMBOK and life-cycle processes (primary, supporting, organizational) Assessment procedures: ISO, SPICE, PSP (Personal Software Process), TSP (Team Software Process), CMM (Capability Maturity Model), SPICE, … Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM The course will cover the following topics (the order will be influenced by the order of practical assignments): Project management Feasibility study, the role in requirements engineering, … Cost estimation and COCOMO model Risk analysis Tracking (tools, metrics, …) Methodologies of Software Project Management: RUP, Prince, ... Software process metrics Maintenance and maintenance metrics Advanced topics in Professional Responsibilities and Computer Ethics Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM Teaching Methodology Lectures will be supported by animated, multimedia ‚power-point' slides. Handouts for these slides will be delivered to students after the lecture. We also plan to write and publish a textbook for the course. During practical exercises students (divided into teams) will 'simulate' the real-world process of managing the software project. During the life of the project teams would exchange roles in order to better appreciate: the role of proper documentation throughout the life of project and the difference between managing and 'doing'. Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM Teaching Methodology Complete teaching material copies of presented slides, text of practical assignments, documents produced by students groups will be available on the web-site (after the presentation of certain lectures). Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM: Additional support to upgrade the course on SPM Examining Methodology Constant review of practical work done during practical exercises (work on the project.) This will be conducted continuously during the semester. Short tests on theoretical aspects taught during the lectures. Discussion on documents and solutions produced during the work on the project. Oral exam covering topics taught during lectures, at the end of the semester - for the students unsatisfied with a grade acquired throughout the semester.