November 2008 Meeting : Agile Methods and Digital Tables ( ICT 516 and ICT 524)

Come and join us Tuesday, November 4th for a session on Agile Methods and Digital Tables.

Frank Mauer will lead the session with some of his students, and will give an overview on current research of the Agile Software Engineering group at the UofC. The AgilePlanner project investigates project planning support for distributed agile teams. Currently, the work focuses on digital tabletops for agile planning. In addition, we investigate integrating project planning with executable specifications/acceptance tests. Executable Acceptance Test Driven Development(EATDD), also called story test driven development, is a process where development of new features only starts after executable tests for it are defined. Acceptance tests act as an executable specification. Agile methods are moving from single teams to whole organization. This raises issue of how to coordinate multiple teams and organize software reuse across multiple projects. Our Agile Product Line Engineering project is developing new approaches that combine software product lines with agile thinking.

The meeting will consist of a short presentation followed by demos of the various tools:

• APDT: Distributed agile planning using digital tables
• FitClipse: Tool support for executable acceptance test driven development
• APJazz: Integrating AgilePlanner with IBM Jazz
• ActiveStory: Low-fi prototyping and distributed usability testing
• eHome Monitoring & Control

*** Change of venue for this week only ***

The meeting will be held in ICT 516 and the demos the adjacent lab (ICT 524).

Coffee & Snacks 6:00-6:30
Talk 6:30-7:30