CS510, Fall 2006 Course Schedule

Week, Date

Speaker

Lectures

Readings

Assignments (Due date)

Week 1
8/21-25

Boehm

8/21: Course Overview,

Boehm

8/25: Using COCOMO II for SW Decisions

EP-1

Boehm

8/28: Incremental Commitment Model

EP-2, 3; CII Appendix A

1. COCOMO II (30)

Week 2
8/28-9/1

Boehm

8/30: Agility & Discipline

Balancing Ch1-4

Boehm

9/1: Risk Management (I)

EP-4, VBSE Ch-5

2. Agility Questions (15)

week 3
9/4-8

 

9/4: Labor Day - No classes

Boehm

9/6: People and Values; Agility Q&A

EP-5, Balancing Ch-6

Boehm

9/8: VBSE II

VBSE Ch-1, 2

3. Agility and Risk (30)

week 4
9/11-15

Boehm

9/11: VBSE III

VBSE Ch-4, 6

4. VBSE Questions (15)

Boehm

9/13: VBSE Q&A

Madachy

9/15: COCOMO II Tutorial, Case Study

CII Ch 3

week 5
9/18-22

Jain

9/18: VBSE Game

5. Sierra M bikes Zero (30)

9/20: *** Midterm I ***

Madachy

9/22: COCOMO Suite

CII Ch 5-6

week 6
9/25-9/29

Madachy

9/25: Process Dynamics I

EP-8.9

6. VBSE Game 1 (15)

Madachy

9/27: Process Dynamics II, Value Based

EP-7

 

Boehm

9:29: Models Clashes; MBASE

week 7
10/2-10/6

Boehm

10/2: Econ Analysis (I)

SEE Ch10-12; EP-21

7. COCOMO II (30)

Boehm

10/4: Econ Analysis (II)

SEE Ch12-14; EP-22

Boehm

10/6: Econ Analysis (III)

SEE Ch15-16; EP-23

week 8
10/9-13

Boehm

10/9: Econ Analysis (IV)

SEE Ch17-20

8. SEE Ch10-14 (40)

Boehm

10/11: Risk Analysis

VBSE Ch-5

Boehm

10/13: Risk Management (II)

EP-10

 

week 9
10/16-20

Reifer

10/16: Business Case Analysis (I)

EP-11

9. SEE Ch15-20 (40)

Reifer

10/18: Business Case Analysis (II)

EP-12

Boehm

10/20: Life Cycle Planning; Review

EP-13 

 

week 10
10/23-10/27

10/23: *** Midterm II ***

Huang 

10/25: Value-Based SW Quality

EP-14,15

Bhuta

10/27: Value-Based COTS Integration

EP-16, EC18

 

week 11
10/30-11/3

Boehm

10/30: People as Developers

EP-17, EC-06

Boehm

11/1: People as Acquirers and Users

EP-18, EC-06

 

Boehm

11/3: Human-Systems Integration

EP-19, LINK

 

week 12
11/6-10

Boehm

11/6: Large-scale Software and Systems Engineering

EP-20, LINK

Hefner

11/8: Capability Maturity Models

 

Boehm

11/10: Agile&Plan-Driven Method Integration

Balancing Ch5-6, EC-04

10. Business Case Analysis (30)  

week 13
11/13-17

Boehm

11/13: The Economics of Software Quality

LINK

 

Jain

11/15: VBSE Game II

VBSE Ch-9,12, CaseStudy

 

Madachy

11/17: Commercial Rapid Development

 

 

week 14
11/20-24

Boehm

11/20: Outsourcing, Global Development

LINK

11. Scrum (60)

Boehm

11/22: Software Engineering Ethics

EP-24,25, LINK

 

11/24: Thanksgiving - No Classes

 

 

week 15
11/27-12/1

Reifer

11/27: Role of Business Case Analysis

EC-25

Boehm

11/29: CTO Analysis I Discussion

 

 

 

12/1: No Lecture

 

12. Service Oriented Architecture (60)

week 16
12/4-12/6

12/4: No lecture

 

12/6: *** Final Exam ***