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CONTENTS
Week 1 – Introduction - Rigby et al (2016) ................................................................................................... 6
Week 1A Sheets ........................................................................................................................................ 6
Devils triangle – Project success ........................................................................................................... 6
Standish Group Chaos Report success factors ...................................................................................... 7
Agile ...................................................................................................................................................... 8
Why Agile Now (Rigby).......................................................................................................................... 8
Or… is it only a fashion (Cram and Newell, 2016) ................................................................................. 9
Rigby et al (2016) – Embracing Agile ........................................................................................................ 9
Week 1B Sheets ...................................................................................................................................... 13
(Elias Committee, 2014) Why is Developing IT for Government hard ................................................ 13
Design cycle......................................................................................................................................... 13
Waterfall ............................................................................................................................................. 14
System Development Lifecycle ........................................................................................................... 14
Iterative, Incremental ......................................................................................................................... 15
Spiral model ........................................................................................................................................ 15
Back to Agile (Principles) ..................................................................................................................... 16
Scrum .................................................................................................................................................. 16
XP Extreme Programming ................................................................................................................... 16
Planning............................................................................................................................................... 17
Scheduling ........................................................................................................................................... 17
Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................... 17
Week 2 – System development - Brooks (1987), Boehm (1988), Jarke et al (2011) .................................. 18
Week 2 – Software development ........................................................................................................... 18
Use Case Diagram (UML) .................................................................................................................... 18
Requirements ...................................................................................................................................... 19
Elias committee recommendations to improve ICT project for government ..................................... 19
Requirements engineering joke .......................................................................................................... 19
Design as a dialogue............................................................................................................................ 20
Brooks (1987) No silver bullet, essence and accident in software engineering ..................................... 21
Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 21
, essential and accidential difficulties – 2 types of complexity ............................................................. 21
Complexity .......................................................................................................................................... 22
Conformity .......................................................................................................................................... 22
Changeability....................................................................................................................................... 23
Invisibility ............................................................................................................................................ 23
How to address these issues? ............................................................................................................. 24
How to address complexity? ............................................................................................................... 24
Boehm (1988) A spiral model of software development and enhancement ......................................... 25
Week 2 – Requirements Engineering...................................................................................................... 29
Verification and Validation ................................................................................................................. 29
Requirements and Testing (V-Model of testing)................................................................................. 29
Requirements enigneering Boehm 1979 ............................................................................................ 30
Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................... 30
Jarke et al (2011) The brave new world of design requirements ........................................................... 31
Abstract ............................................................................................................................................... 31
Introduction – What is requirement engineering ............................................................................... 31
Requirements research – a brief overview ......................................................................................... 32
Methodology – Challenges in requirements engineering................................................................... 32
The changing nature of requirements ................................................................................................ 33
Four requirement principles ............................................................................................................... 34
Comparisons with conventional RE practices ..................................................................................... 37
Week 3 Business case & Metrics - Bacon (1992) ........................................................................................ 38
Lecture 3 – Business case........................................................................................................................ 38
Developing a business case................................................................................................................. 38
Schwalbe p.99 ..................................................................................................................................... 49
In practice – What are the hidden costs drivers of cloud migrations at banks .................................. 50
Portfolio management ........................................................................................................................ 50
Bacon (1992) The use of decision criteria in selecting IS/Technology investments ............................... 51
Organizational learning ....................................................................................................................... 51
Financial criteria .................................................................................................................................. 52
Summary & Conclusion ....................................................................................................................... 53
Lecture 3 – Software cost estimation ..................................................................................................... 55
, Difference between costs and price ................................................................................................... 55
Project planning (Ch5) – Scope: What to do and what not to do ....................................................... 55
Development cost estimation (Ch6) ................................................................................................... 56
Software metrics – Complex complicated .......................................................................................... 57
Analogy estimates ............................................................................................................................... 57
Function points – Function point analysis (FPA) ................................................................................. 57
COCOMO (Boehm, 1981) – Constructive cost model ......................................................................... 59
Why not use machine learning for establishing historical analogy? .................................................. 60
Discussion en conclusion .................................................................................................................... 61
Week 4A Agile & Devops ............................................................................................................................ 62
Sheets 4A ................................................................................................................................................ 62
Agile .................................................................................................................................................... 62
XP (Beck, 1999) ................................................................................................................................... 63
Scrum (Schwaber & Beedle, 2002)...................................................................................................... 63
Scrum: roles ........................................................................................................................................ 64
Scrum: rituals ...................................................................................................................................... 65
Scrum: artefacts .................................................................................................................................. 66
Scrum: management tools .................................................................................................................. 66
Scrum: why does it work? ................................................................................................................... 67
Scaled agile – SAFE - LESS.................................................................................................................... 68
Agile and LEAN .................................................................................................................................... 69
Lean ..................................................................................................................................................... 70
Business process improvement .......................................................................................................... 70
Business process re-engineering (Hammer & Champy, 1993; Davenport, 1994) .............................. 71
DevOps ................................................................................................................................................ 71
How to deal with multi-speed IT developments? (Agile and Stable)(Möhlmann, 2016) ................... 73
Continuous change: really? (Brous & Janssen) ................................................................................... 73
Conclusions ......................................................................................................................................... 74
Dyba, Dingsoyr & Moe (2014) Agile Project Management ..................................................................... 75
Software project management ........................................................................................................... 75
Self-managing software teams ........................................................................................................... 76
Shared-decision making ...................................................................................................................... 77
, Principles of agile project management ............................................................................................. 78
Fitzgerald & Stol (2017) Continuous software engineering: A roadmap and agenda ............................ 80
Trends in the software engineering landscape ................................................................................... 80
Lean Thinking ...................................................................................................................................... 84
Continuous development ................................................................................................................... 85
Continuous *: continuous software engineering and beyond............................................................ 86
Week 4B – Stakeholders and support CH8 & Risk management CH7 (Bryson) .......................................... 88
Lecture 4B Stakeholders and support – power and politics Part 1......................................................... 88
Organizational structures (Chapter 4) ................................................................................................ 88
Case standard business reporting (XBRL) – Bharosa et al. (2015) ...................................................... 89
Impose with leeway – Bharosa et al (2011) ........................................................................................ 90
Collaboration in networks De Bruijn and ten Heuvelhof (2002)......................................................... 90
E3 value diagrams (AirBnB value network) (Gordijn and Akkermand, 2003) ..................................... 91
Distribution of revenues from a project – Sustainable business model ............................................. 91
Bryson (2004) What to do when stakeholders matter – Identification & analysis................................. 92
Coalition formation ............................................................................................................................. 92
An array of techniques ........................................................................................................................ 93
Lecture 4B Part 2 ..................................................................................................................................... 96
Power, politics and MIS implementation (Markus, 1983) .................................................................. 96
Stakeholders & Power interest grid and their interests case testvision ............................................. 97
Lecture 4B Risk management ................................................................................................................. 98
Risk ...................................................................................................................................................... 98
Being in control – Plan-Do-Check-Act (Deming, 1986) Learning from mistakes ................................ 99
Project risk identification .................................................................................................................... 99
Swot analysis; Fishbone diagram ...................................................................................................... 100
Designing control measures.............................................................................................................. 101
Qualitative versus quantitative risk analysis..................................................................................... 101
Risk appetite: Outcome of a dialogue ............................................................................................... 102
Monitoring and controlling the (software) project........................................................................... 102
Week 5 – Open source software development ........................................................................................ 105
Open source principles (opensource.com but shows in paper/lecture too) ........................................ 105
Raymond (1997) The Cathedral and the Bazaar ................................................................................... 106
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