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Technology Innovation Management at Carleton University

TTMG5006
Management of Software Engineering Projects

Fall 2007

COURSE SCHEDULE

This calendar is preliminary and tentative.  It will be altered throughout the term in response to feedback from registered students.

The required reading page has full references to the assigned reading articles.

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Date Topic Assigned Reading / Notes
1 Sep 7 Introduction .
2 Sep 14 The state of the art / signals of change 1. Brooks (1987)
2. Raymond (1999)
3. O'Reilly (2005)
4. Pyster & Thaler (2006)
3 Sep 21 Project management tools and techniques 1. Fayad (1997) 
2. NetMBA
2. Guide to the SWEBOK
4 Sep 28 Risk Management /
Quality Management
1. Boehm (1991)
2. Fairley (1994)
3. Clark (2002)
4. Graham (2002)

Assignment 1 is due Monday October 1. 

University Day (Oct. 5) – no classes

5 Oct 12 Agile methods and open source methods 1. Patton (2005)
2. Boehm (1988)
3. Boehm (1999)
4. Ebert (2007)

5. Spinellis (2006)
6. Aberdour (2007)

Assignment 2 is due Monday October 15.

6 Oct 19 Research on open source projects 1. von Krogh & von Hippel (2006)
2. Roberts et al. (2006)
3. Shah (2006)
4. MacCormack et al.  (2006)
5. Kuk (2006)
7 Oct 26 Research on open source projects 1. Grewal (2006)
2. Economides & Katsamakas (2006)
3. Casadesus-Masanell & Ghemawat (2006)
4. Bonacorsi et al. (2006)
5. Bagozzi & Dholakia (2006)
6. Baldwin & Clark (2006)
8 Nov 2 Special topics seminars

Secure software engineering (Abhay)
Development process maturity (Stephen)

Readings to be announced.

9 Nov 9 Special topics seminars

Rational Unified Process (Chukwuemeka)
SCRUM (Razi)

Readings to be announced.

10 Nov 16 Special topics seminars Advanced scheduling techniques (Yang)
Effective code reviews (Jason/Yewei)

Readings to be announced.

11 Nov 23 Special topics seminars Leadership and motivation (Anuj)
Management of virtual teams (Sorin)

Readings to be announced.

12 Nov 30 Special topics seminars Change management (Roberto)
Web services management (Ajay/Talha)

Readings to be announced.

  Dec 3 End of Fall Term Term paper is due.