DSD is a joint course of:

• Mälardalen University (MdH), School of Innovation, Design and Engineering (IDT)
• University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER)

Teachers:

Course partners - external customers: 

• University of Paderborn (UPB), Germany, Software Engineering Group (prof. Wilhelm Schäfer, Dietrich Travkin, Markus von Detten)
• Kapsch TIS company, Croatia (Branko Beslać)

Course Purpose:

The course will give students an insight in complexity of distributed software development. The students will be trained to work in distributed teams and use technology for development of distributed software applications.

The course includes the following topics:

• Introduction to distributed software development
• Distributed development projects
• Designing distributed applications
• Working in a distributed development project
• Documenting and presenting the project

What makes DSD different from the other courses?

Find out, at the DSD info links below :-) 

More info at:

• What is DSD? - A short explanation
• DSD History: 03/04 - A story about the beginnings
• DSD evaluations:
  • 2003/2004
  • 2004/2005
  • 2005/2006
  • 2006/2007
  • 2007/2008
  • 2008/2009
  • 2009/2010

• DSD video I - students' side
• DSD video II - teachers' side
• Enrol to DSD or not? - (in Croatian)
• DSD poster - SCORE contest
• DSD iProject page - A longer explanation about the DSD course background methodology

  SCORE competition

Our students are the members of finalist teams of the SCORE competition, organized by the world's largest software engineering conference (ICSE – International Conference in Software Engineering).

Out of 50 project teams from prestigious universities, six finalist teams were selected - three of them projects from DSD 2008/09 course. Above all, “BTW: if you go my advice to you” project was declared the overall winner of the SCORE 2009 competition.

Student teams were competing while working on projects as a practical part of this course, overcoming various challenges in distributed software development and working on real-life projects. Students - team representatives participated in project presentations at the ICSE conference itself, which took place in May 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. We are proud that DSD students actively participated in promoting the cooperation between our universities, and have shown the quality of such distributed work and project-based course.

Special award for outstanding achievement in the international software engineering competition and the contribution to the international visibility of University of Zagreb was awarded to the members of the winning, BTWmaps team.

 (Photo: www.unizg.hr)

The University of Zagreb held a contest for the best e-course in the academic year 2008./2009. The purpose of this competition was to acknowledge the best examples of using ICT in university education, which enhances not only tehnological, but the pedagogical parts of the course education process.

Among a great competition, Distributed Software Development course was awarded the second prize for the best e-course at the University of Zagreb.