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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Software Development Processes and Methodologies by University of Minnesota

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About the Course

Software is quickly becoming integral part of human life as we see more and more automation and technical advancements. Just like we expect car to work all the time and can't afford to break or reboot unexpectedly, software industry needs to continue to learn better way to build software if it were to become integral part of human life. In this course, you will get an overview of how software teams work? What processes they use? What are some of the industry standard methodologies? What are pros and cons of each? You will learn enough to have meaningful conversation around software development processes. After completing this course, a learner will be able to 1) Apply core software engineering practices at conceptual level for a given problem. 2) Compare and contrast traditional, agile, and lean development methodologies at high level. These include Waterfall, Rational Unified Process, V model, Incremental, Spiral models and overview of agile mindset 3) Propose a methodology best suited for a given situation...

Top reviews

WL

May 31, 2020

would be perfect if the instructors can grade our assignments as well, or even for the assignment provide some sort of very simple example answer. Overall it's a good course.

CP

Sep 20, 2020

Be wary of first peer reviewed assignment--requires detailed readings and not all reviewers take the time to read what you wrote or even the rubric.

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By Luis F P M

May 21, 2021

Excellente course

By Aniket D

Sep 12, 2020

thank you so much

By DALAWAI S M

Nov 1, 2020

very nice course

By ishaan o

Mar 27, 2018

excellent cource

By Choda M v k

Oct 8, 2021

helpful course

By MAYANK R

May 2, 2020

Nice Content

By 施寬陞

Nov 12, 2021

No problem

By Maredla G

Oct 19, 2021

Helppful

By DATLA N V

Aug 30, 2021

Helpfull

By Fizzah S

Aug 26, 2021

worth it

By Sudhir S

May 15, 2024

masssst

By Amit R Y

Oct 28, 2021

good

By SRAVYA C V

Oct 22, 2021

good

By SIBHI H V S 1

Jul 29, 2020

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By Tejaswini V

Oct 1, 2019

Good

By Steve M

Feb 22, 2026

Putting 3 stars for now. Starts out great, but goes down hill when discussing software design/architecture. Too much hand waving by module 2.Overloading certain terms is fine when there is a marker to help make a distinction.But descending in to babbling pretending it 'this is all part of the art form' is ridiculous.Even real art has discipline, painting has different schools of thought and even mixing pigments and holding a brush has well defined standards. Shaping a mold has standards. To pretend that software design is some kind of 'black art' in a 'black box' is preposterous. In module 2 there are lectures and questions that basically say 'the best solution is often NOT the most popular one'. The fact that the world is so dependent on aws, microsoft, oracle pretty much proves that to be a lie. The fact that there are proven software design patterns that are used as almost a default for efficiency proves that the best solution IS IN FACT the one that is widely popular in the industry. This course is ridiculous. I wonder if I should waste my time getting to Module 3.

By Taylor H

Mar 22, 2025

I found that courses 2 and 3 were better explained than courses 1 and 4. In courses 1 and 4, the topics were difficult to grasp for someone without a coding background, and the explanations were vague. Additionally, many of the resource links did not work, and I found that almost every peer assignment I was asked to review had clearly been written by AI.

By addanki v v s p

Dec 19, 2020

course is good actually, but the main problem is plagiarism issues, which is so terrific. i submit my works doing for my self , but i still get the issues of error. i don't know why this system was failed in detecting the real work vs copied work

By Sean S

May 31, 2023

Good material, but assignments were too easy, and most peers I had to peer review were either bots or entering nonsense submissions.

By Nhat T (

Mar 11, 2019

A good enough course. Material are sometimes difficult to follow. Assignment are quite different from what were being taught.

By Avanti M D

Jan 26, 2021

Course is good. But it lags in detailed description. Slide presentation is not explained in detail.

By Alpish J

Apr 4, 2020

It could have been better.But it was better than what my college taught.

By Neil S

Nov 17, 2017

Very repetitive and not detailed enough.

By Katuri B

Oct 26, 2021

good

By Sandhya P

Jun 26, 2020

Nice