Short Course Agile Software Engineering

COMP_AGILE Short Course Agile Software Engineering 40 Full year Undergraduate Level 6 Suzanne Embury Unit coordinator 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Undefined ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 20.0 Agile software engineering is an approach to the creation of software systems that puts the delivery of value at the heart of the process.  Software has the potential to allow us (organisations, business, governments, families, etc) to do more, in less time, at less cost, in more flexible ways, and that scales in ways unimaginable with wholly manual processes.  But poor software can also act against us, putting barriers in the way of goals, taking control away from the people who most need it, and adding complexity where it is not needed or beneficial.  As software engineers, it is our task to create software that opens up opportunities, rather than closing them down.  This is challenging, and requires a range of skills, including people management and communication as well as the technical skills that go beyond simply “coding” to the design of efficient and effective systems, that are deployed for use in ways that keep them manageable and sustainable for as long as they are needed.  Agile software engineering is a family of such techniques that aims to maximise the value delivered from each software project, by working in close collaboration with users and stakeholders and by applying best practice development techniques and tools to create flexible, clean and malleable software systems.  This flexible learning course unit brings together a range of concepts and skills needed by agile software engineers, from requirements gathering and project planning through user experience design and incremental development through to the long term management and maintenance of systems.  It covers the same materials as 4 of our undergraduate course units at level 5 and 6.  Agile software engineering is an approach to the creation of software systems that puts the delivery of value at the heart of the process.  Software has the potential to allow us (organisations, business, governments, families, etc) to do more, in less time, at less cost, in more flexible ways, and that scales in ways unimaginable with wholly manual processes.  But poor software can also act against us, putting barriers in the way of goals, taking control away from the people who most need it, and adding complexity where it is not needed or beneficial.  As software engineers, it is our task to create software that opens up opportunities, rather than closing them down.  This is challenging, and requires a range of skills, including people management and communication as well as the technical skills that go beyond simply “coding” to the design of efficient and effective systems, that are deployed for use in ways that keep them manageable and sustainable for as long as they are needed.  Agile software engineering is a family of such techniques that aims to maximise the value delivered from each software project, by working in close collaboration with users and stakeholders and by applying best practice development techniques and tools to create flexible, clean and malleable software systems.  This flexible learning course unit brings together a range of concepts and skills needed by agile software engineers, from requirements gathering and project planning through user experience design and incremental development through to the long term management and maintenance of systems.  It covers the same materials as 4 of our undergraduate course units at level 5 and 6.  Introduce and develop core concepts and skills in agile software engineering, taken from all parts of the software lifecycle and covering both greenfield and brownfield engineering contexts.  Agile software engineering is an approach to the creation of software systems that puts the delivery of value at the heart of the process.  Software has the potential to allow us (organisations, business, governments, families, etc) to do more, in less time, at less cost, in more flexible ways, and that scales in ways unimaginable with wholly manual processes.  But poor software can also act against us, putting barriers in the way of goals, taking control away from the people who most need it, and adding complexity where it is not needed or beneficial.  As software engineers, it is our task to create software that opens up opportunities, rather than closing them down.  This is challenging, and requires a range of skills, including people management and communication as well as the technical skills that go beyond simply “coding” to the design of efficient and effective systems, that are deployed for use in ways that keep them manageable and sustainable for as long as they are needed.  Agile software engineering is a family of such techniques that aims to maximise the value delivered from each software project, by working in close collaboration with users and stakeholders and by applying best practice development techniques and tools to create flexible, clean and malleable software systems.  This flexible learning course unit brings together a range of concepts and skills needed by agile software engineers, from requirements gathering and project planning through user experience design and incremental development through to the long term management and maintenance of systems.  It covers the same materials as 4 of our undergraduate course units at level 5 and 6.  This course unit is designed to be taken as a part-time unit over a period of 1 or 2 semesters, and allows for flexible learning online and at a time of the learner’s choosing.  Material is presented online in the form of videos, articles and self-paced activities.  This online learning is supplemented by a regular fortnightly face-to-face session, run online or on campus according to the preferences of the learners who plan to attend.  The content for these sessions will be selected by learners, on a just-in-time basis.  Learners can also choose to join selected undergraduate classes from the course units that this unit is based on – for example, to join in with on-campus coaching games, or to attend workshops covering some of the self-paced activities.  1 Written exam 58% 2 Written assignment (inc essay) 42% Revision workshops/surgeries; Online discussions/tutorials;  Meetings with Academic Advisers; Field trips Optional attendance at bi-weekly discussion/activity/examples sessions.  N Tutorials 20 400