CS510, Fall 2005 Course Schedule

Week, Date Speaker Lectures
Readings
Assignments (Due date)
Week 1
8/22-26
Boehm 8/22: Course Overview
EP-1, 2
Boehm 8/24: Value-Based Software Engineering I
EP-3, 4
Boehm 8/26: VBSE II
EP-20, 21
1. VBSE Questions (15)
week 2
8/29-9/2
Boehm 8/29: VBSE Q&A
Boehm 8/31: The Future of Software Processes
EP-5,6
Boehm 9/2: Agility & Discipline
Balancing Ch1-4
2. Sierra M Bikes Zero (30)
week 3
9/5-9
  9/5: Labor Day - No classes
Boehm 9/7: Risk Management (I)
EP-9
3. Agility Questions (15)
Jain 9/9: VBSE and Spiral Development
EP-7, 8
week 4
9/12-16
Boehm 9/12: People and Values; Agility Q&A
EP-10
Madachy 9/14: COCOMO II Overview, Case Study
CII Ch1-3
4. Agility and Risk (30)
Chen 9/16: COCOMO II Tutorial
week 5
9/19-23
Boehm 9/19: Using COCOMO II for SW Decisions; Review
Madachy 9/21: COCOMO Suite
CII Ch5-6
5. VBSE Games 1 (postponed) (15)
Madachy 9/23: Process Dynamics
EP-13
week 6
9/26-9/30
  9/26: *** Midterm I ***
6. COCOMO II (30)
Boehm 9/28: Process Models; MBASE EP-11, 12
 
Boehm 9:30: Real Earned Value Mgmt EP-14, CII Ch2.6
week 7
10/3-10/7
Boehm
10/3: Econ Analysis (I)
EP-33, 34, 35. SEE Ch10-12
7. COCOMO II (30)
Boehm
10/5: Econ Analysis (II)
SEE Ch12-14
Boehm
10/7: Econ Analysis (III)
SEE Ch15-16
week 8
10/10-14
Boehm
10/10: Econ Analysis (IV)
SEE Ch17-19
8. SEE Ch10-14 (40)
Boehm 10/12: Econ Analysis (V)
SEE Ch20
Boehm 10/14: Risk Management (II)
EP-15
 
week 9
10/17-21
Reifer
10/17: Business Case Analysis (I)
BCA Ch1-4
9. SEE Ch15-20 (40)
Reifer 10/19: Business Case Analysis (II)
BCA CH5-8
Boehm 10/21: Business Case Analysis (III)    
week 10
10/24-10/28
Boehm
10/24: Life Cycle Planning; Review
EP-16
10. Business Case Analysis (30)
  10/26: *** Midterm II ***  
Madachy 10/28: Software Process Control    
week 11
10/31-11/4
Madachy
10/31: Software Process Dynamics II
Boehm 11/2: Org. Mgmt: CeBASE Method
EP-17
 
Boehm 11/4: Large-scale software and systems engineering
EP-22
 
week 12
11/7-11
Boehm
11/7: Model Clashes and MBASE
EP-18, 19
11. Critical Path Analysis (30)
Boehm 11/9: Agile&Plan-Driven Method Integration
Balancing Ch5-6
 
Boehm 11/11: Outsourcing, Global Development
 
week 13
11/14-18
Bhuta
11/14: COTS-Based Systems
 
Madachy 11/16: Capability Maturity Models
 
Wu 11/18: Computer Security Economics    
week 14
11/21-25
Hefner
11/21: Commercial Rapid Development
12. CTO Analysis I (60)
11/23: TBD  
  11/25: Thanksgiving - No Classes    
week 15
11/28-12/2
Boehm 11/28: Software Quality Economics
Boehm 11/30: CTO Analysis I Discussion    
  12/2: No Lecture  
13. CTO Analysis II (60)

week 16
12/5-12/7

12/5: No lecture
  12/7: *** Final Exam ***