Week 5 (February 22 – February 28)

Monday, February 22   (6:30 P.M. – 7:20 P.M., GoToMeeting) Optional Session

Online Dropin Session

On Monday evenings, I will be holding an Online Drop-In Session using the GoToMeeting platform. Students are invited to join us to discuss questions and issues concerning the class. This will serve as an opportunity to meet and start discussions with other students in the class. I expect this to be particularly useful during the early part of the semester when we are forming teams. Your experience will be best when you are using a headset. You may join the GoToMeeting session using this link.

Thursday, February 25   (3:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M., NWQB-3472) Optional Session
Office Hours	Every Thursday afternoon, I will be holding Office Hours in my UWM office. Please feel free to drop by to ask a question, to discuss a problem, or just to say hello.

Sunday, February 28, @  11:55 P.M. Weekly Assignments Deadline
Topics	Building a Foundation Being a Change Agent JIRA Agile Team Formation
Required Readings	Layton: Chapter 16 Layton: Chapter 17
Required Recordings	Recorded commentary on Layton: Chapter 16 Commentary Audio Recorded commentary on Layton: Chapter 17 Commentary Audio Introduction to JIRA & Agile Project Management Tutorial Video
Class Participation Assignments Due	Are you a change agent? Description: One of the readings from the Layton text for this week describes your role as that of a change agent. How could this point of view help you to identify a promising project opportunity while working with your client? Submit to: Weekly Discussion Forum Team Formation - Finalize (Step 4 of 4) Description: During this fourth week of team-related activities, our goal is to make any final adjustments to team staffing and to make sure that the team infrastructure is in place. Any person not on a team, and any team still needing staff should contact me early in the week for assistance. I will need to get a list of team members for each team so that I can set up the team on D2L, have a SOIS Web space created, and properly add each student to the JIRA Agile system. Each team should be prepared to start their project at the end of this week. Submit to: Team Formation Forum