Startup Engineering II: Building a Minimum Viable Product
This page contains general information about the course "Startup-Engineering II: Building a Minimum Viable Product", which takes place in the winter term.
Link to specific information about the course in the current semester.
Motivation
The module "Startup Engineering II: Building a Minimum Viable Product" is aimed at students who are planning to start their own business or work for a startup. We will simulate a part of the early product development phase within a startup.
Student teams choose a modern product development environments such as Alexa Skills, Google Home Actions, mobile Apps, Web Apps, Chatbots and Slack Apps to build a functioning prototype.
This module is an opportunity to gain experience in software development and also learn how to build customer-centered products.
Format
Startup Engineering II is a team project; students work together in teams of three persons to achieve a series of pre-defined milestones. Each milestone is presented in front of the other groups, who make suggestions for improvement. Coaches are available to guide and advise the teams.
Lecturers
- Graham Horton (Lecturer)
- Jana Görs (Coach)
Format and Exam
- Credit points: 6 CP
- SWS: 4
- Exam Type: Hausarbeit
Further Information
- Module Description (PDF)
- Classification with the Curriculum:
- MSc CV / MSc INF / MSc INGINF / MSc WIF: WPF Informatik
Workload of the Course
Lectures |
Project |
Hausarbeit | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures: Introductory Lectures | 008 | - | - | ||
| Project: Work | - | 120 | - | ||
| Project: Presentation | - | 016 | - | ||
| Hausarbeit | - | - | 020 | ||
Totals |
Lectures |
Project |
Referat |
||
| 008 | 136 | 020 | |||
| Total hours used | 166 | ||||
| Workload for 6 CP | 180 | ||||
| Hours still available | 014 | (for organizational stuff, etc.) | |||