Pre-assessment notes
The biggest project you've been involved with
As expected, there are people with a wide variety of previous experience on
this course. The most striking thing was that experience of working with
many people was even rarer than experience of working with a large
codebase, or even working with the same project over a number of years.
Very few people had worked with a team of more than 15 people: this means
you are likely to see the context in which agile methodologies were
developed as familiar, and the context in which higher ceremony processes
like the Unified Process were developed as strange. Just bear it in mind.
About you
Most of you are expecting to be involved in development as your careers.
This year nobody strongly disagreed that they were looking forward to the
course, which was a relief; I hope to win round the couple of folks who
disagreed. We have quite a spread of other characteristics, especially how
confident students are in Java. I will try to make it easy by keeping the
things you need to look at on the schedule page in an ordered way.
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