CS510, Fall 2000 Course Schedule

Date Topics Reading Done Assignment Due
8/28 M Course Overview, Master Net Case Study
SEE 1,2;EP-1,2,13
Questionnaire
8/30 W Model-Based Architecting and Software Engineering(MBASE) SEE 3;EP-3,4
 
9/6 W MBASE II SEE 4;EP-5,6 Master Net Model Clashes (25)
9/11 M COCOMO™ II C-II 1,2
9/13 W Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO™II - Reifer/Abts C-II 3 Cost-to-fix tradeoff analyses (36)
9/18 M Business Case Analysis & Benefit Realization EP-7
 
9/20 W COCOMO™ II Usage - Madachy EP-7 COCOMO™ II Parametric Analyses (36)
9/25 M COTS Integration EP-8,9
9/27 W COCOTS - Abts
C-II 5 (COCOTS)
Business Case exercise (25)
10/2 M ***Midterm Exam I***
 
10/4 W Cost-Effectiveness Analysis I SEE 10-11
COCOMO™II LSDI exercise (25)
10/9 M Cost-Effectiveness Analysis II SEE 12-13 ***Term Paper Outline***
10/11 W Multiple-Goal Decision Analysis I SEE 14-15 SEE 10.12, 11.7, 12.5 (36)
10/16 M Multiple-Goal Decision Analysis II SEE 16-18
10/18 W Risk Analysis, Statistical Decision Theory SEE 19-20 SEE 14.8, 15.7, 16.5 (36)
10/23 M Risk Analysis, Value of Information
 
 
10/25 W Software Risk Management I EP-10 SEE 18.3, 19.5, 20.9 (36)
10/30 M Software Risk Management II
11/1 W ***Midterm Exam II***
 
11/6 M Confirm Case Study, Theory W I EP-11,12,14
11/8 W TheoryW II, People Issues SEE 33.6
Confirm Risk Analysis (20)
11/13 M
Planning & Control I
SEE 32
11/15 W Planning & Control II
Planning & Control TBD (25)
11/20 M Capability Maturity Model I - Hefner
11/22 W Rapid Application Development (RAD) EP-9
11/27 M Case Study - Library Multimedia
EP-3
11/29 W Case Study - Microsoft
12/4 M No Class - Term Paper Preparation
12/8 F ***Term Paper Due***
SEE: Software Engineering Economics
C-II: Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO™ II
EP: Electronic Papers