The course will include required reading on distributed project management and teamwork, inter-cultural and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The course will include required reading on advanced technical subjects including web-services, unit testing, stubs, F# and advanced C# language constructs. The course at ITU runs through the entire spring semester. The joint subproject with SMU runs in the period 2 March to 30 March 2009. The ITU students are expected to spend a minimum of time, probably at odd hours, every working day during the joint project period in order to have a continuous communication and negotiation process. Each group will consist of approximately 5 ITU students and 2 SMU students. Each group will have both a supervisor at ITU and a supervisor at SMU.