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) |