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Module: Project Management

Process models, team coordination, planning, and issue management.

Learning Outcomes

Practice simple project planning techniques

Learn to collaborate more efficiently in a team by breaking a project into sequence of milestones, and each milestone into issues which are assigned to group members and tracked in GitHub.

Write useful project documentation

Learn to write user and developer-level documentation.

Readings

Guided tour of the project management module

Why, what, how, and when you will learn about project management

Screencast 3 min

Introduction to software development process models

Waterfall, Spiral, CMM, Agile…

Screencast 14 min

Introduction to issue driven project management

The project management method to be practiced in this class

Screencast 12 min

IDPM Guidelines

Guidelines for issue driven project management

GitHub hosting project management guidelines

Guidelines for using GitHub effectively for project hosting

Mastering Issues

GitHub documentation on their Issue manager

GitHub documentation

Tracking the progress of your work with Projects

GitHub documentation on their Projects tool

GitHub documentation

Tracking the progress of your work with Milestones

GitHub documentation on their Milestones tool

GitHub documentation

BowFolios

Illustrates what a completed final project should look like.

Template code

Experiential Learning

BowFolios

Learn about the BowFolios example system

E50: Team Bonding

Learn about your team members

02 Apr 11:30 PM

E51: Create a GitHub organization and home page

Form an organization for your final project

03 Apr 11:30 PM

E52: Experience Issue Driven Project Management

Set up your first milestone plan for this project.

04 Apr 11:30 PM

E53: Experience a team presentation

Present your team and project to the class

06 Apr 11:30 PM

Assessments

A17: Assess your team presentation

Outcomes assessed: Practice simple project planning techniques, Write useful project documentation

This assessment will evaluate the ability of teams to create a first presentation that satisfies the requirements.