A project is the most common activity of engineering in their professional development, even in many companies all the engineering work is organized around projects. And informatics engineering is not immune to this trend, but is clearly present. Within the speciality of software engineering, this course is designed to reproduce, as far as possible, the project development of a software system such as in the professional environment, i.e., with a project team with different roles, and taking into account all aspects of project management: planning, cost, schedule, deliverables, meeting minutes, oral presentations, etc ... It is therefore a completely practical course. Necessary techniques have already been acquired in previous courses (GPS, ER, AS and previous ones) and in PES will be implemented during the realization of a project on a case to be presented.
Teachers
Person in charge
Silverio Juan Martínez Fernández (
)
Others
Carles Farre Tost (
)
Jordi Piguillem Poch (
)
Matías Sebastián Martínez Martínez (
)
Víctor Asenjo Carvajal (
)
Competences
Transversal Competences
Teamwork
G5 [Avaluable] - To be capable to work as a team member, being just one more member or performing management tasks, with the finality of contributing to develop projects in a pragmatic way and with responsibility sense; to assume compromises taking into account the available resources.
G5.3
- To identify the roles, skills and weaknesses of the different members of the group. To propose improvements in the group structure. To interact with efficacy and professionalism. To negotiate and manage conflicts in the group. To recognize and give support or assume the leader role in the working group. To evaluate and present the results of the tasks of the group. To represent the group in negotiation involving other people. Capacity to collaborate in a multidisciplinary environment. To know and apply the techniques for promoting the creativity.
Effective oral and written communication
G4 [Avaluable] - To communicate with other people knowledge, procedures, results and ideas orally and in a written way. To participate in discussions about topics related to the activity of a technical informatics engineer.
G4.3
- To communicate clearly and efficiently in oral and written presentations about complex topics, becoming adapted to the situation, the type of audience and the communication goals, using the strategies and the adequate means. To analyse, value and respond adequately to the questions of the audience.
Technical Competences of each Specialization
Software engineering specialization
CES1 - To develop, maintain and evaluate software services and systems which satisfy all user requirements, which behave reliably and efficiently, with a reasonable development and maintenance and which satisfy the rules for quality applying the theories, principles, methods and practices of Software Engineering.
CES1.1
- To develop, maintain and evaluate complex and/or critical software systems and services.
CES1.3
- To identify, evaluate and manage potential risks related to software building which could arise.
CES1.7
- To control the quality and design tests in the software production
CES2 - To value the client needs and specify the software requirements to satisfy these needs, reconciling conflictive objectives through searching acceptable compromises, taking into account the limitations related to the cost, time, already developed systems and organizations.
CES2.1
- To define and manage the requirements of a software system.
CES2.2
- To design adequate solutions in one or more application domains, using software engineering methods which integrate ethical, social, legal and economical aspects.
Objectives
To reinforce concepts already learned in previous courses through his practice in a project
Related competences:
CES1.1,
CES2.1,
CES2.2,
G5.3,
CES1.7,
Know how to put in practice the principles of project management
Related competences:
CES1.1,
CES2.2,
G5.3,
CES1.3,
Knowing how to follow a method in a systematic and disciplined way
Related competences:
CES1.1,
G5.3,
Knowing how to properly use tool support for project management and development
Related competences:
CES2.2,
CES1.7,
Learn to make project presentations to diverse audiences
Related competences:
G4.3,
G5.3,
Learn the technique of writing the project and other documents resulting from the work
Related competences:
G4.3,
G5.3,
Contents
Presentation of the project
Description of the operation, statement, guide the project, making of project teams
Background
Brief summary of the knowledge acquired in previous courses that is relevant for the project construction
Development environment
Description of the development tools needed for the project
Inception phase of the project
Development of the artifacts corresponding to the inception phase of the project
Initial development phase of the project
Development of the artifacts corresponding to the two first development sprints of the project
Final development phase of the project
Development of the artifacts corresponding to the last two sprints of the project
Activities
ActivityEvaluation act
Starting the project
Read the material, form project teams and assign roles
Laboratory: Read and understand the material, form groups, assign roles, first contact with the tools
Documentation referring to the project scope, the stakeholders and initial planning Objectives:12346 Week:
4
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
2h
Autonomous learning
6h
Initial presentation of the project
Customer-oriented presentation, explaining the functionality of the software system to be built, on what platform, and who is the final user Objectives:5 Week:
4
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
2h
Guided learning
0h
Autonomous learning
4h
Intermediate control the progression of the project
Evaluation of the two first project development sprints according to some predefined criteria Objectives:12346 Week:
10
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
2h
Autonomous learning
2h
Final presentation of the project
Engineer-oriented presentation, which should explain the technical content Objectives:5 Week:
14
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
2h
Guided learning
0h
Autonomous learning
4h
Final delivery of the project
Delivery of the project final documentation and hands-on demonstration of a prototype Objectives:12346 Week:
14
Theory
0h
Problems
0h
Laboratory
0h
Guided learning
2h
Autonomous learning
6h
Teaching methodology
It is a project-based course, and therefore essentially practical. The classes will be always in classroom laboratory with an expected number of 3 to 5 project teams per classroom. The project teams will be composed of 5 to 7 students, in order to allow implementing a non-trivial prototype.
The explanations of concepts needed (most at the first two weeks, but also at any time whenever necessary) will be in the same classroom. The teacher in the classroom, will act as tutor of the teams. Both presentations will be also provided in lab hours.
The project will start from a general idea and will try to reproduce a real project, with all its elements (deadlines, deliverables, project management, etc..). The methodology used will be agile, organized as an initial inception phase and then 3 or 4 development iterations. The technical issues that will be put into practice will come from the previous courses (IES, BD, ER, AS, GPS).
Evaluation methodology
In a project's course, what needs to be qualifies is the realization of the project itself. The project is developed as team work, but also the team members have assigned different tasks which demand to be evaluated individually. As a result, the final grade of every student is determined applying the following formula:
Nfinal = Nteam * IndivFactor
The project global grade Nteam includes the project ambition, the artifacts produced, the team management, the documentation and the presentations:
- The grade Artifacts is computed as a weighted average of all the delivered artifacts. As the most important artifact, the software executable prototype represents the 50% of this grade.
- In ProjectManagement are included both human aspects (e.g., balanced share of the work, deadline achievement, etc.) and the efficient use of development tools (e.g., code repositori -git-, ...)
- In the documentation and presentation evaluation, are taken into account especially communicational aspects and the neatness of the work done
- The ambition measures the final complexity of the software produced. It is a multiplicative factor comprised among 0.8 and 1.2, determined by the teacher. In any event, this multiplicative factor cannot make the Nteam grade greater than 10.
The individual factor IndivFact is also a multiplicative factor among 0.8 and 1.2 (and similarly, cannot make Nfinal grow beyond 10). This factor is obtained from the evaluation that the teacher makes about the participation of the student in the project development and the evaluation that the team mates make on this very participation. In really exceptional situations, IndivFact can be less than 0.8 for those students who have really very low participation in the project along the course.
The assessment of generic skills is given directly by some project factors:
Oral and Written Communication = (Docum+Presentations)*IndivFactor
Teamwork = ProjectManagement*IndivFactor
and has values A, B, C, D, according to:
A if the score is greater than 8.4
B if the score is between 7 and 8.4
C if the score is between 5 and 6.9
D if the score is less than 5