Course Syllabus for students Autumn 2023

After a successful course, the student shall:

- display knowledge of projects as a working method including leadership and cooperation
- display knowledge of Software Engineering history, terminology and methods
- display knowledge about some commonly used methods for software development, both non-agile and agile

- demonstrate the ability to apply a method and use various project tools within the area of project methodology
- demonstrate the ability to cope with changing requirements and conditions in a project
- demonstrate the ability to communicate engineering topics and issues successfully with internal (team members) and external stakeholders (customers)
- demonstrate the ability to choose suitable development tools and technical solutions in a software development project

- demonstrate an understanding of the significance of using different concepts and perspectives (gender, social sustainability, culture) in identifying and analysing problems within a software engineering project
- demonstrate the ability to perform retrospective analysis of software engineering projects, determining success and failure factors and the impact of methods followed

The course conveys to students the type of knowledge in software engineering methods, project management, decision making, analysis, leadership, communication, etc. which is needed in order to work as a software engineer in software development projects in industry. The course also gives students the ability to apply the skills that they have gained from other courses in the program in order to develop a product or service.

The course includes the following elements:
- Evolution of Software Engineering: history, terminology and methods
- Software development methods: An overview
- Project methodology, project rolls and project models
- Project definition, including risk analysis, stakeholder-analysis and SWOT-analysis
- A minimalist approach to software documentation
- Software development models, e.g. SCRUM and V-Model
- Project retrospective

Tuition will consist of lectures and project work.

The teaching is conducted in English.

General entry requirements and 60 credits in the programme including Group Dynamics 3 credits and Object-Oriented Software Design 6 credits (or the equivalent).

The course is graded 5,4,3 or Fail.

The final grade will only be issued after satisfactory completion of all assessments.

Name of the Test	Value	Grading
Examination	3 credits	U/G
Project1	4.5 credits	5/4/3/U

¹ Determines the final grade of the course, which is issued only when all course units have been passed.

The litterature list for the course will be provided one month before the course starts.

Title: Visualizing Project Management
Author: Keving Forsberg, Hal Mooz, Howard Cotterman
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 978-0-471-64848-2

Title: Adaptive Code, Agile coding with design patterns and SOLID principles
Author: Gary McLean Hall
Publisher: OTSI
ISBN: 978-1-5093-0258-1

Title: Applying UML and Patterns
Author: Craig Larman
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN: 0-13-092569-1