MIS 161 SCHEDULEFall 2025

Date

Topic

Chapter

Deliverables

8/25

Introduction - Discuss the Syllabus

 

 

8/27

Current Trends in Systems Development

 

9/1

Labor Day Holiday – No classes

 

9/3

Lab: Scrum in 60 minutes

 

 

9/8

The Chaos Report and ChaosFindings.pptx 

 

 

9/10

Review projects - Form Groups

 

Team Composition

9/15

Review.pptx: Use Case Diagrams and User Stories

User_stories_Scrum_Alliance.pdf

Project Schedule

9/17

Lab: Scrum planning

 

9/22

Lab: User story development

 

9/24

Lab: Sprint 1

 

Design Review

9/29

Designing Forms and Reports

Additional Readings: Oracle Design, Microsoft Design, Apple Design, Android Design

Chapter 10

10/1

Lab: Sprint 2

Release 1

10/6

Designing Interfaces and Dialogues

The Eight Golden Rules of interface design

Chapter 11   

10/8

Sprint 3 Lab

 

10/13

Release 1 Class Demo

 

10/15

Designing Distributed and Internet Systems

Chapter 12

 

10/20

First Exam

10/22

System Implementation

Chapter 13

Release 2  

10/27

Maintaining Information Systems

Chapter 14   

10/29

Lab: System Implementation

Release 3

11/3

Principles of Software Testing

 

System Implementation

11/5

Lab: System Deployment

 

11/10

Lab: Software Testing Setup

 

11/12

How to present the results to management

 

System Deployment

11/17

Lab: Software Testing Execution

 

 

11/19

Lab: System Maintenance

 

Project Testing   

11/24

Presentation Recording

 

 

11/26

Presentation Recording

 

Project Presentation 

12/1

Lab: Post Implementation Review

 

 

12/3

Class Review

 

PIER Report

12/10

Final Exam @ 3:00 PM