Reading Review - revised spec

At last I've got round to correcting a few typos in the draft spec and expanding in the Assessment criteria.

Here is the final spec

Scrum video and more on Agile

Video of Ken Schwaber. The daddy of Scrum.

The Agile Manifesto.

Project Management references

Here are the references we will be using in class today. I'm bringing print outs of some, but others work better online because of their graphics and click through image maps. I suggest using a mixture of both.

The exercise for today will be to split up these materials and read through them. Then we will have a discussion on what the similarities and differences are in these approaches. I will be providing a handout which will help you focus on relevant questions.


PRINCE 2, what it is and its structure.
http://www.prince2.com/p2structure.html
http://www.prince2.com/whatisp2.html

Scrum introduction. Great diagrams.
http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/Scrum/Scrum.html

eXtreme Programming
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/index.html
Map or flow chart for XP
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/map/project.html

Lecture on J2EE Architecture

This week we will be looking at the J2EE architecture for web applications. See the Overview chapter in the Sun Tutorial @ http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc

Further reading - see
http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/J2EEOverview_speakernoted.pdf

Also see video
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/talks/videos/RickSaletta/interview.tss?bandwidth=dsl