Outsourcing and requirement specification

Plan

Day 1- Outsourcing

Day 2 – Agile requirements

Day 3 – Unified Process and user stories

Day 4 – Prototyping and Spikes

Day 5 – Study point exercises

Learning objectives

• Be able to specify and outsource a part of a project
• Be able to write requirements specification and acceptance test as part of product quality assurance
• Be able to prepare, create and test experimental prototypes/functional spikes

Business competencies

• Be able to participate in outsourcing
• Be able to participate in business modelling and requirement specification

Exercises

SP-Exercise Outsorcing 10/11/2017 - Link to PDF

Resources

SCRUM Tool

In the project you must use taiga.io as SCRUM Tool
It is Open Source and free for Public projects. Download it at taiga.io
On the YouTube cannel you can find 12 Tutorials: Taiga YouTube cannel

SYS Intro:

Slides: Link to Slides

Outsourcing:

Link to PowerPoint

Arthur F. Rothberg: Outsourcing Benefits: Seven Ways They Help Grow SmallCompanies http://www.cfoedge.com/resources/articles/cfo-edge-outsourcing-benefits-and-growing-small-companies.pdf

Michael F. Corbett: The Outsourcing Revolution https://www.economist.com/media/globalexecutive/outsourcing_revolution_e_02.pdf

Videos:

1. (5 min - "ABC company") Outsourcing: Is it good or bad? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qeehDLYa8g&feature=youtu.be
2. (4 min - "pep talk + counselling conversation"Outsourcing Your Graphic Design [Small Business Tutorial]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ujEtAsR1t8&feature=youtu.be
3. (4 stk ca. 7-8 min - Tyrone Shum/outsourcinglive) Benefits Of Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4dWB3Q6j0Q
4. The 5 Secrets With Outsourcing Software And IT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEtBVTXHv3E
5. Pros and Cons of Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90a2qHYqMoU
6. The Truth About Outsourcing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7LHOUs7KLo

Agile requirement specification

Slides: Link to Slides

Leffingwell - Agile software requirements

• chap. 3: AGILE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TEAM
• chap. 6: USER STORIES (skip spikes)
• chap. 10: ACCEPTANCE TESTING (skip Unit and Component Testing)

Elisabeth Hendrickson: Driving Development with Tests ATTD and TDD: http://testobsessed.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/atddexample.pdf

Videos:

1. Explaining Agile - Martin Fowler and Neil Ford at USI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE6lbPLEAzc
2. Agile Product Ownership in a nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE
3. Product Backlog Grooming Meeting: http://scrumtrainingseries.com/

Unified Process and use cases

Slides: Link to Slides

Ambler: A Manager’s Introduction to RUP http://www.ambysoft.com/downloads/managersIntroToRUP.pdf

Leffingwell: chap 19: use cases.

Prototyping and spikes

Slides: can be found in this git

C. Floyd - A systematic look on prototyping

Leffingwell- chap. 6: USER STORIES (spikes)

Spikes -½ Scaled Agile Framework.pdf

Friday

Study point exercise: Prototyping

Study point exercise: Outsourcing