Agile Project Management SS18

Seminar/Practical Course: Agile Project Management SS18

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: February 01, 13:00-13:30pm, room 01.07.014 - Slides

Related Courses

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 kickoff meeting)
iPraktikum Kickoff Meeting: Thursday, April 12, 4:30 pm, Interims Lecture Hall 1
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

Attend the info meeting. - Slides
Please fill the application form below. (Latest: February 08)
We invite you to a short personal interview by February 09 - pick a time slot that works for you. Interviews take place on February 12, 12:00-18:00.
After we have accepted you, prioritize the Seminar/Practical Course "Agile Project Management" in the matching system of the faculty (Latest: February 14)

Application form

Applications have closed. Please come back next semester!

Instructors & contact

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


Prof. Dr. Bernd Brügge Professor	Dominic Henze Program Management	Lukas Alperowitz Program Management	Paul Schmiedmayer Program Management