Topic Outline Schedule — v1.0 ( 01 Oct 2011 )

Date Topic Reading Assignment
Aug 30 Introduction — Software Engineering Brooks, Ch. 1, "The Tar Pit"
Sep 1 Company business — "The 20-Minute Genealogist" Company handbook
Sep 6 Managing Ignorance Armour, Appendix B, "The Five Orders of Ignorance"
Sep 8 Company business — Team assignments, preliminary meetings  
Sep 13 Team meetings, Consulting  
Sep 15 Peopleware I Brooks, Ch. 3, "The Surgical Team"
Brooks, Ch. 4, "Aristrocracy, Democracy and System Design"
Demarco, Peopleware, Part I – Part II
Sep 20 Team meetings, Dr. K at ESEIW in Banff, Alberta, Canada  
Sep 22 Team meetings, Dr. K at ESEIW in Banff, Alberta, Canada  
Sep 27 Peopleware II Demarco, Peopleware, Part III – IV
Sep 29 Leadership Demarco, Peopleware, Part V – VI
Oct 4 Team meetings, Dr. K at OSS in Salvador, Brazil  
Oct 6 Team meetings, Dr. K at OSS in Salvador, Brazil Finish Reading "Peopleware" (Oct 8)
Oct 11 Risk Management  
Oct 13 Cost Estimation Brooks, Ch. 8, "Calling the Shot""
Brooks, Ch. 14, "Hatching a Catastrophe
Oct 18 Team meetings, Consulting  
Oct 20 Philosophical Foundations of Patterns  
Oct 25 Team meetings, Consulting  
Oct 27 No Silver Bullet Brooks, Ch. 16, "No Silver Bullet"
Brooks, Ch. 17, "No Silver Bullet: Refired"
Nov 1 Team meetings, Consulting  
Nov 3 After the Gold Rush Brooks, Ch. 19, "The Mythical Man-Month after 20 Years"
Finish Reading "Mythical Man-Month" (Nov 5)
Nov 8 Team meetings, Consulting  
Nov 10 Metrics  
Nov 15 Team meetings, Consulting  
Nov 17 Software Engineering Research  
Nov 22 No Class, Thanksgiving Holiday  
Nov 24 No Class, Thanksgiving Holiday  
Nov 29 Team meetings, Consulting  
Dec 1 Final Exam Review  
Dec 6 Team meetings, Consulting  
Dec 8 Final Presentations, Post-mortem Finish reading "Dreaming in Code" or alternate book (Dec 8)