CS510, Fall 1999 Course Schedule

Date Topics Reading Done Assignment Due
8/30 M Course Overview, Uni Word Case Study
SEE 1,2;EP-1,2
Questionnaire
9/1 W Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering(MBASE) SEE 3;EP-3,4
 
9/8 W MBASE II SEE 4;EP-5,6 UniWord:EP-2, p.10 (25)
9/13 M Waterfall Phases and Activities; COCOMO81 SEE 5-8
9/15 W Software Cost Estimation:COCOMOII Overview SEE 21,22; EP-7 SEE 4.3, 4.5, 4.6 (36)
9/20 M Business Case Analysis
 
9/22 W Rapid Application Development(RAD) EP-9 SEE 5.13, 6.4, 7.1 (36)
9/27 M RAD II
9/29 W COCOMO II
EP-7,8
Business Case exercise (25)
10/4 M ***Midterm Exam I***
 
10/6 W Cost-Effectiveness Analysis I SEE 10-11
COCOMOII LSDI exercise (25)
10/11 M Cost-Effectiveness Analysis II SEE 12-13 ***Term Paper Outline***
10/13 W Multiple-Goal Decision Analysis I SEE 14-15 SEE 11.4, 12.7, 13.3 (36)
10/18 M Multiple-Goal Decision Analysis II SEE 16-18
10/20 W Risk Analysis, Statistical Decision Theory SEE 19-20 SEE 14.7, 15.7, 16.3 (36)
10/25 M Risk Analysis, Value of Information
 
 
10/27W Software Risk Management I EP-10 SEE 19.3, 19.4, 20.4 (36)
11/1M Software Risk Management II
11/3 W ***Midterm Exam II***
 
11/8 M Gourmet Case Study, Theory W I EP-11,12,13
11/10 W TheoryW II, People Issues SEE 33.6
Gourmet Case Study (20)
11/15 M
Planning & Control I
SEE 32
11/17 W Planning & Control II
Planning & Control TBD (25)
11/22 M Capability Maturity Model I - Hofner
11/24 W COTS Integration - Abts
11/29 M Case Study - Library Multimedia
EP-3
12/1 W Case Study - Microsoft
12/6 M No Class - Term Paper Preparation
12/10 F ***Term Paper Due***
SEE: Software Engineering Economics
EP: Electronic Papers