CS 493 Schedule
| Date | Topic | Notes | Assignments | 
| Aug 30 | What is a senior project? What ideas do you have for a project? How do you come up with a project? | The
              New Methodology Planning your Project | |
| Sep 01 | Project topics | Writing for Computer Science References Developing your project proposal | Background research | 
| Sep 06 | Project Pitch | DUE:
              Investments DUE: background research | |
| Sep 08 | Finalizing the projects Defining project goals and the point of the project Writing project proposals | Computer Science Writing Style Usability Goals | Project Proposal | 
| Sep 13 | Elevator Pitch | ||
| Sep 15 | Introduction to scrum software Software engineering methodologies Software development process and planning:agile, scrum, sprint, stand-up, epic, user story, scrum master Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning | DUE: draft project proposal | |
| Sep 20 | Work on project proposal Project Proposal Feedback | ||
| Sep 22 | Introduction to ScrumDesk User stories and acceptance criteria | User Stories Acceptance Criteria | DUE:
                project proposal | 
| Sep 27 | Project Proposal Feedback ScrumDesk User stories and acceptance criteria | ||
| Sep 29 | Sprint Planning: - Assign stories to sprints - Assign tasks to the stories for this sprint - Assign users to tasks | DUE: Backlog DUE: Daily stand up | |
| Oct 04 | Size stories | DUE: All user stories have acceptance criteria | |
| Oct 06 | Sprint burndown charts | ||
| Oct 11 | Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning | DUE: Add epics to the backlog | |
| Oct 13 | Topic Lead: Chadd | ||
| Oct 18 | Refactoring | ||
| Oct 20 | Topic Lead: | ||
| Oct 25 | Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning | ||
| Oct 27 | Topic Lead: | ||
| Nov 01 | Refactoring Exercise | ||
| Nov 03 | Topic Lead: | ||
| Nov 08 | Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning | ||
| Nov 10 | Topic Lead: | ||
| Nov 15 | Programming Interviews | ||
| Nov 17 | Discussion on presentations
            and final report One-on-one meetings | ||
| Nov 22 | Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning | ||
| Nov 24 | THANKSGIVING | ||
| Nov 29 | Practice presentations: | ||
| Dec 01 | Practice presentations: | ||
| Dec 06 | Sprint retrospective / next sprint planning | ||
| Dec 12 | Monday: noon-2:30pm |