Project course

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Project course 2021-2022

Introduction and important information

10.9.2021 / Jerker Björkqvist 8.30 Agora 110A/B

9/13/2021 Åbo Akademi University - Domkyrkotorget 3 - 20500

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Project Course 2021-2022

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AGENDA TODAY Part 1:

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Welcome to project course!

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Introduction to project course

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Some guests

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Companies

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Group from last year Part 2:

Get to know each other

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Åbo Akademi University - Domkyrkotorget 3 - 20500 Åbo

Course lecturers and TAs

Jerker Björkqvist

Anna Sell Ville Harkke Adnan Ashraf Andrei Morariu Dragos Truscan

ENJOY!

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Lecture/meeting hours!

• Reserve 3 hours for the scheduled meetings on Fridays!

– 8.30-11.30 room Agora 110A&B – if no special program

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Attendance

• Attendance to common meetings IS required – On-Site OR using Zoom

– 2 absences will be accepted for good reasons – any further absence will lower personal grade

• further absence will lower grade by 1 for each 2 NoShows

– Attendance list circulates in the beginning of each meeting

– Attendance over Zoom is marked by lecturer from Zoom-reports. Use own name in Zoom!

• Why:

– We show respect for each other and their work in this course

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Audience and requirements

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Advanced level course (15 ECTS) for

– Computer Engineering

– Computer Science – Information systems

– Any other student interested in contributing to a ICT solution

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Required background

– Bachelor level degree or equivalent

– Software engineering, programming and design skills

– Systems theory, business models and project management

• General

– Ability to work in teams

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What is the project course?

• The objective is to plan, design, implement and deliver a ICT solution in a TEAM

• In the end of the project the team present

A. Demonstrator for the solution  ICT Showroom

B. Business / Exploitation plan for the solution  Document C. Project deliverables  Documents

• During the project the team produces

- Status presentations - Prototypes

- Documents

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What is the project course?

• The project course is VERY practical

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Almost no lectures

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The team (that is YOU) is putting together necessary plans, documentation, SW, HW, integration

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The team presents the progress and final results i various events

• Course meetings, SparkUp pitch event, ICT Showroom,...

• You use theoretical skills from previous courses,

and implement them in practice

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What about Covid-19 ?

• What the project course normally is ?

– Work in teams, meet physically, collaborate

• Covid-19 do change things a lot….

– But life goes on, perhaps in slightly different format

• We try to keep the same format of the course

– We adopt according to rules / guidelines

• from Åbo Akademi

• from the government

• Find a working format that is good for your team – F2F vs virtual presence…

• Respect your colleagues

– Risk groups, fear, protection

• Use the opportunity: Learn !!

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Two major course requirements

Requirement 1:

• There should be an executable demonstrator at the end of the project. That is, you need to deliver a running system, not a plan nor a vision of a

system:

– It should be delivered with documentation and access to the source code.

– The demonstrator should show that the product requirements are fulfilled.

Requirement 2:

• You should have performed teamwork together with fellow students. The teamwork should be documented in form of a project plan, technical documentation, exploitation plan and

presentations during the course.

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Skills and competences acquired

• Interact with a customer and learn how to communicate requirements and design decisions.

• Plan and follow up a software development project.

Review the plan during the execution of the project and reflect over your initial expectations and estimations.

• Work in a team. Team coordination, meetings, planning and internal communication. Use basic collaboration tools in software development such as an issue tracking system and a software repository and version control system.

• Carry out a development project from beginning to end: Create and document a design. Implement the design. Test the implementation.

• Presentations and documentation. Present your project, product, plans and documents to your colleagues,

stakeholders and the general public. Produce documentation that is usable and understandable.

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Web page

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Course web page

https://abacus.abo.fi/proj.nsf

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Litterature

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No specific book, but the following can be useful

– Roger S Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, 2004.

– Hans Van Vliet, Software Engineering:

Principles and Practice, 2008.

– Frederick P. Brooks, The Mythical Man- Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 1995 .

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Material on business plans

– http://www.businessmodelgener ation.com/

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Project customer

• Each team has a project customer, from outside the project team

– Company

– University teacher / researcher – Other

• With the external customer, you learn how to

– Communicate project requirements – Report project progress

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The Team

• A team of 4-6 persons

– You shall form your own teams ! – Think about the mix of the team

• Your best friends might not form the best team

• Skills, personalities, cultures, languages

– The lecturers have the final word when it comes to team formation

• Each team shall have he best mix of skills possible

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Stakeholders overview

Mentor Customer

Project Manager

(PM) Product Owner

(PO)

Team members

Requirements Meetings

Tasks

Techology / Design

The Team (4-6 persons)

Lecturer Company / lecturer / other 3rd party

Tutor

Teaching Assistant

Individual support

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Mentors

• Each Team will be assigned a Mentor – One of the lecturers

– 2-4 meetings with the Mentor

– The Mentor deals with management, team issues and motivation – not with technical issues (even if this of course also can be discussed)

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Evaluation

• Personal grading from 1-5

• The evaluation is subjective – but based on the opinions from the (n) lecturers and external experts

• The course include 3 evaluations

– 1^stevaluation – Phase 1 - 10%

– 2^ndevaluation – Phase 2 - 30%

– 3^rdevaluation at the end of the course 60%

• In the evaluations, the following will be regarded:

– Project idea, team setup, actual system, project plan (project description, schedule, risk analysis, quality), technical

documentation (requirements, design structure, clarity), user guide (clarity, usefulness), business/exploitation plan, and presentations made.

• Note: Common meeting attendance

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Schedule overview

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First meeting previous years

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Pitch @ BoostTurku

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Deliverables / schedule fall 2021

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Deliverables / schedule spring 2022

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Resources

• Working facilities: AGORA

– Room 110A&B reserved EVERY Friday; you can use that for working

– Rooms for meetings at 3^rd floor – Virtual meeting tools

• IT resources

– We can provide some, but best to use;

• Free online tools (google / MS etc.)

• Cloud resources from vendors

– GITHub Classroom

• Special equipment??

– By request (and if possible) via the team’s Mentor

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ICT Showroom

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TimeLapse

https://photos.app.goo.gl/dxM8RUKxkPMbaSMa7

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Evaluation

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Projects last year

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Previous years…

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Previous years…

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All ICT Showroom winners 2021

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All ICT Showroom winners 2020

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All winners 2019

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Project from earliers years

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Projects from earlier years

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Projects from earlier years

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Projects that went a little bit further

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Pidro online (www.pidro.net)

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Developed in 2005 - Sold in 2016  OneApps Ab

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Mannerheim – aka eduskuntavahti

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Movino  Bambuser

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K4IpBu0Yig

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Bambuser on First North Sweden

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Wip  Mobio  Walkbase

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Break

• Part 2: Get to know each other

– ZOOM only:

https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/69422663902 - Find a spot where you can interact using

zoom

- Using Phone / Laptop

- 3rd floor / in this room / at home

- We will rejoin at: 10.10§

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Get to know each other

• EVERYONE IN ZOOM:

– Using Zoom break-out-rooms

– Speed-meeting one-to-one (2 min)

• Round 1: Tell your name, where you are from, anything extra is bonus

• Round 2-n:

– Tell your name and where you are from – Tell who you last met, and where they are

from

– Anything extra is bonus

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Get to know each other

• EVERYONE in ZOOM

• Using Zoom break-out-rooms

• In groups of 4:

– Round 1:

• Introduce yourselves

• Find at least 5 things that you have in common

• Nominate the spokesperson that will present the common things of the group

– Round 2-n

• Find things that you have in common with the previous group (with the same number)

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Roles / domains / technologies

• Zoom polls!

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Word clouds

• Easy

• Intermediate

• Difficult

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Next meeting  Friday 17.9.2021

• Previous projects and teams

• Software process e

• Starting forming of Teams

• Guest presentations

– Stories – Ideas

• Homework: Preparations

– Do I have an idea for a project/product?

• Prepare to shortly present it (oral presentation, 3 min)

– Do I have a customer ?

• Do your profile in the project course home page

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Project course

• Due to Covid-19, max capacity in this room is limited to ~27 persons.

• If the room gets full, students need to join on Zoom instead:

Meeting ID: 694 2266 3902

https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/69422663902

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