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This semester Siamak Haschemi asked me to assume a project in the course Software Project I (the course is divided in two parts and last a whole year). Goal of this course is to teach the students how to work in teams over a longer distance. For this purpose he invited several companies to put some project ideas to the students.  He also asked me to make a proposal for the course. My project idea was chosen by six students, who will develope the system. The process model for the development process will be Scrum, an agile method to managing tasks in teams.

The project I suggest is a multi-user online colaboration software. The name of the project ist [lao]. [lao] is an acronym for look ahead online. The purpose of the software product is to allow persons to collect informations in the pre-project phase. At the beginning I will let the team run more free so that they can develop own ideas. Additionaly I don’t want to prescribe the selection of technologies.

Today I met the team and they seemed to be very enthusiastic. I introduced myself as the product owner and gave them the first user stories. For the Scrum process they will use the tool ScrumDo. I hope I can see some planning results in the next two weeks. At this point I will take the challenge and hope that I can publish some stories about the development process.