SYP curriculum, year 3

Learning resources for SYP in the third year at HTL Leonding, school year 2026/27. The course is taught in English; the German terms of project governance — Lastenheft, Pflichtenheft, Projektauftrag — are given alongside their English names, because that is what the forms and the diploma thesis still call them.

Structure of the subject

Lessons

Lesson 1
- Theory: Course overview, organisation and assessment — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Setting up the learning environment — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 2
- Theory: What makes a project a project — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Repository, commit, history — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 3
- Theory: Generating ideas with structured techniques — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Branching and merging — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 4
- Theory: Choosing a project with weighted scoring — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Pull requests and review — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 5
- Theory: Stakeholders and verifiable project goals — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Conflicts and remote repositories — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 6
- Theory: Eliciting requirements from people and documents — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Documentation as text with AsciiDoc — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 7
- Theory: Structure of the project application and charter — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: From push to published page — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 8
- Theory: Process models as three tempos of one pattern — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Working with AI agents, first steps — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 9
- Theory: Why specifications instead of a requirements document — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Providing context and continuing across sessions — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 10
- Theory: From project charter to specifications — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Running a change end to end — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 11
- Theory: What software engineering is — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Shaping the agent’s working environment — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 12
- Theory: The artefacts of spec-driven development — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Repeating workflows and stop conditions — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 13
- Theory: The life cycle of a change — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: First milestone review — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 14
- Theory: Reading project progress from changes — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: What containers solve — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 15
- Theory: The living target state replaces the requirements document — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Building an image from a description — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 16
- Theory: Estimation hygiene instead of estimation methods — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Data and configuration outside the container — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 17
- Theory: Planning milestones that can be verified — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Images for more than one processor architecture — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 18
- Theory: Acceptance and handover — Exercises · Questions
- Practice: Second milestone review — Exercises · Questions
Lesson 19
- Theory: The principle is the subject, not the tool (planned)
- Practice: Describing an application of several services (planned)
Lesson 20
- Theory: Waterfall and the V-model (planned)
- Practice: Application with a database (planned)
Lesson 21
- Theory: Scrum in outline (planned)
- Practice: Networks, dependencies and start order (planned)
Lesson 22
- Theory: UML diagram types and when to use them (planned)
- Practice: Presentations from the same source (planned)
Lesson 23
- Theory: Use case diagrams (planned)
- Practice: Checking what the agent produced (planned)
Lesson 24
- Theory: Class and object diagrams (planned)
- Practice: Third milestone review (planned)
Lesson 25
- Theory: Activity diagrams (planned)
- Practice: Agents in the running project (planned)
Lesson 26
- Theory: State diagrams in outline (planned)
- Practice: Container orchestration, first look (planned)
Lesson 27
- Theory: Written exams and oral assessment (planned)
- Practice: Running an application on the orchestrator (planned)
Lesson 28
- Practice: Reaching an application from outside (planned)

Scope

By kind

Kind	Units	Budget	Topics
Practice	56	56	28
Theory	27	27	27

Theory units per block

Block	Units	Budget	Topics
Project governance	10	10	10
Process models and spec-driven development	10	10	10
Modelling with UML	5	5	5
Tools and practice	2	2	2

Practice units per block

Block	Units	Topics
Project governance	6	3
Process models and spec-driven development	2	1
Modelling with UML	0	0
Tools and practice	48	24

Progress

36 of 55 topics are finished, 19 are still open.

Elsewhere

Question catalogue — authoritative for SYP year 3 from 2026/27 on
Existing question catalogue — other subjects and years, kept as an archive
Older project pages — still reachable, unchanged