Agile Methodologies for Hardware/Software Teams for a Capstone Design Course: Lessons Learned

Stansbury, Richard S.; Towhidnejad, Massood; Clifford, Jayson; Dop, Michael P.

doi:10.18260/1-2--17432

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“…The existing capstone courses do not provide adequate paradigm for large-scale multi-team cohorts where the teams need to consider inter-team integration methods utilizing scrum techniques. Although, Stansbury et al [25] adapted agile processes to support large multidisciplinary teams of 12 to 16 students, our approach aims to replicate a real world software company where teams required efficient coordination to deliver the final product.…”

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"Software is the easy part of Software Engineering" - Lessons and Experiences from A Large-Scale, Multi-Team Capstone Course

2022

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Capstone courses in undergraduate software engineering are a critical final milestone for students. These courses allow students to create a software solution and demonstrate the knowledge they accumulated in their degrees. However, a typical capstone project team is small containing no more than 5 students and function independently from other teams. To better reflect real-world software development and meet industry demands, we introduce in this paper our novel capstone course. Each student was assigned to a large-scale, multi-team (i.e., company) of up to 20 students to collaboratively build software. Students placed in a company gained first-hand experiences with respect to multi-team coordination, integration, communication, agile, and teamwork to build a microservices based project. Furthermore, each company was required to implement plug-and-play so that their services would be compatible with another company, thereby sharing common APIs. Through developing the product in autonomous sub-teams, the students enhanced not only their technical abilities but also their soft skills such as communication and coordination. More importantly, experiencing the challenges that arose from the multi-team project trained students to realize the pitfalls and advantages of organizational culture. Among many lessons learned from this course experience, students learned the critical importance of building team trust. We provide detailed information about our course structure, lessons learned, and propose recommendations for other universities and programs. Our work concerns educators interested in launching similar capstone projects so that students in other institutions can reap the benefits of large-scale, multi-team development.

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"Software is the easy part of Software Engineering" - Lessons and Experiences from A Large-Scale, Multi-Team Capstone Course

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Investigating the Benefits of Introducing Process-Oriented Life Cycle Development Models to Improve Students Appreciation for Agile Methods

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2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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Orchestrating Agile Sprint Reviews in Undergraduate Capstone Projects

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2018 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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Agile Methodologies for Hardware/Software Teams for a Capstone Design Course: Lessons Learned

Abstract: Beach, FL. He instructs the capstone senior design course for computer and software engineering. His current research interests include unmanned aircraft, certification issues for unmanned aircraft, mobile robotics, and applied artificial intelligence.

Cited by 9 publications

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"Software is the easy part of Software Engineering" - Lessons and Experiences from A Large-Scale, Multi-Team Capstone Course

"Software is the easy part of Software Engineering" - Lessons and Experiences from A Large-Scale, Multi-Team Capstone Course

Investigating the Benefits of Introducing Process-Oriented Life Cycle Development Models to Improve Students Appreciation for Agile Methods

Orchestrating Agile Sprint Reviews in Undergraduate Capstone Projects

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