4-th School Hour, Monday

This course aims to improve students' practical skills by teaching and team exercises in a PBL (Project Based Learning) format. This class is strongly related to "Advanced Software Design," offered on Monday the 5th, so it is recommended to take this class together.

In this course, various techniques for planning, requirements analysis, modeling, specification, and change management of information systems are taught in a PBL format.

A useful information system should analyze and meet the needs of various stakeholders regarding the system. In addition, techniques to create complete specifications, free of ambiguities and inconsistencies, minimize the risks associated with information system development. In this course, students will learn various techniques for planning, analyzing requirements, and developing specifications for information systems.

The objective of this class is to acquire the following skills through PBL.
(1) Analysis of current problems
(2) Planning software and compiling requirements (Vision Document)
(3) Compilation of specifications (Requirements Definition Document)

Computer Science and Information Technology Course, Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Data Science Course, Graduate School of Science and Engineering

- A notebook PC is required for all exercises. Please prepare your own laptop.
- On-demand online classes will be conducted throughout the 15 sessions, but attendance will be taken during the class periods. Live question-and-answer sessions will also be held during class time (via Zoom).

Various modeling exercises will be conducted in class, and six reports will correspond to the achievement objectives as follows

(1) Requirement acquisition exercise: 30%.
　Requirements capturing exercise (5th and 6th class)
(2) Requirement analysis exercise: 30%.
　Exercise to develop a vision document (9th - 10th class)
(3) Compilation of specifications: 40%
　The specification document and final presentation (12th-15th class)

Each report will be graded on a 5-point scale based on content and clarity, and grades will be assigned according to the above percentages.
In addition, if a student contributes to the improvement of the quality of the deliverables through mutual review and question-and-answer sessions during the presentation, he/she will receive a positive evaluation (10%) according to the degree of his/her contribution.

Disclose sample solutions to the exercises.

The concept will be explained during the exercises. In addition, sample answers will be presented and critiqued in class after the deadline. Students who wish to see the sample solutions must come to my office by the end of the semester, after the assignment deadline. However, only those who have submitted the assignment report will be allowed to do so.

Lecture Homepage (in Japanese)

Wednesdays at 2nd school hour (no appointment required) and as needed (appointment required). Email and Zoom meetings are available.