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We finally finished our university project, Unipoli. The Java implementation of the famous Monopoly game by Hasbro has been released under GPLv3 (yes it's free software) . You can have a look at the source code, simple but elegant, written using coding standards, following xP practices and Scrum software development process (at least we tried to follow them).
On the project site you will find useful documentation, too: Vision Statement, User Stories, Noun Extraction, Product Backlog, UML Classes, Hierarchy and Relations, UML class diagram, Javadoc.
The game has been written for Programming Project course.
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I'm very proud of this, after so many problems encountered during the first two months of development, our product backlog begins to turn green and yellow!

Anyway, I think that Scrum Method is not the best software development process that we could have adopted, I will espress my thoughts during the exam and I will publish them

For Programming Project course we're adopting Scrum as software development process.
Scrum focuses on agile-like project management. The goal of Scrum is to deliver as much quality software as possible within a series of short intervals called Sprints. Scrum concentrates on identifying project variables (quality, time, requirements, etc.) and monitoring them constantly.

This process has been brought to our attention by prof. Pekka Abrahamsson, a guest professor that will stay with us until june.

I will update this page with new information as soon as they will be availabe.
These are the principal roles in Scrum:

Scrum Master: responsible for ensuring that the project is carried through according to the rules of Scrum and that it progesses as planned
Product Owner: responsible fot the project, managing and controlling. Makes the final decisions of the tasks related to a product backlog
Scrum Team: the project team that decides on the necessary actions and to organize itself in order to achieve the goals
Customer: participates in the tasks related to product backlog
Management: in charge of final decision making

Here is a nice model I drew yesterday, of the principal concepts of the Scrum method:

BD-incollo
A dpaste/pastebin clone written using Django

BD-shell
A tiny C shell for Unix systems

BD-theme
BD-blog Wordress theme, available for free

Unipoli
A well-written Java implementation of the popular Monopoli game by Hasbro. It is a project I wrote with other 3 University mates following a software development cycle (Scrum). Unipoli was the project for our Programming Project course. Source code included, released under GPL. We also provide Javadoc, user stories, uml diagrams, binaries.

Computer Shop Warehouse IDA
A very simple, not really useful IDA (Individual Database Application) developed for the "Introduction to Database Systems" course. The documentation is really interesting

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