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.
Almost nobody 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. I
do hope the two people who strongly disagreed that they were looking
forward to the course (but didn't say anything about why not) have found
something more to their liking! We have a wide spread of how prepared
people feel, how confident they are in Java, and how well organised people
are. 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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Perdita Stevens (
perdita@inf.ed.ac.uk)
