Seminar/Practical Course: Agile Project Management WS19/20

Course Description

This course offers the possibility to gain profound experience in agile project management. Participants supervise a real project by coaching an international team of students in the iPraktikum and/or take on additional management task like leading the modeling, release management or code quality teams. All coaches meet weekly to discuss the current status, problems and future tasks with the course instructors. 

Goals

• Coaching and motivation of an agile project team
• Hands-on experience in project management
• Real world application of agile methods (Scrum)
• Handling of challenges in projects and with team members

At a glance

• Credits: 4/5 ETCS (Seminar) or 10 ECTS (Practical Course) 
  Note: in order to count as a 10 ECTS course, participating students additionally lead a cross-project team (e.g. Modeling, Release Management, Merge Management)
• Possible module numbers: IN0014, IN2107, IN0012, IN2106, IN2175, IN4554
• Participants: Limited to 10-15 students
• Info Meeting: Wednesday July 17, 14:00-15:00, room 01.10.011 - Slides

Related Courses

• iPraktikum
• Teaching iOS

Prerequisites

• Participating students have already taken part in a project at the chair of Prof. Bruegge (either as developer or as coach)
• Participating students are familiar with the concepts of agile software engineering (e.g. Scrum)
• Participating students have several years of experience in at least one object-oriented programming language, e.g. Java, C++, C#, Objective-C or Swift
• Participating students have excellent communication skills in English
• Knowledge in the development of mobile applications (in particular iOS), in the field of Usability Engineering or in project management is beneficial

Schedule

• Coach Kickoff Meeting: TBA (week of the iPraktikum Kickoff Meeting)
• iPraktikum Kickoff Meeting: Thursday, October 17, 4:30 pm, Interims Lecture Hall 2
• iPraktikum Course-wide Meetings: Thursdays, 4 pm
• Weekly Coach Meeting: The time will be decided together with all coaches

Application 

Please have a look at the slides of the info meeting for all details, which will be available here after the meeting. The application process is structured as follows:

Application steps

The application process is finished, please join us next semester.

Instructors & contact

Email us with questions at ios (at) in.tum.de.

	Dora Dzvonyar Program Management	Dominic Henze Program Management	Paul Schmiedmayer Program Management	Florian Bodlée   Assistant Program Management