Scrum VR: Virtual Reality Serious Video Game to Learn Scrum

Abstract

Education is crucial for the growth of society, and the usage of effective learning methods is key to transmit knowledge to young students. Some initiatives present Virtual Reality technologies as a promising medium to provide active, effective, and innovative teaching. In turn, the use of this technology seems to be very attractive to students, making it possible to acquire knowledge through it. On the other hand, agile methodologies have taken an essential role within information technologies and they are key in Software Engineering education. This paper combines both areas and presents prior research about Virtual Reality experiences with educational purposes and introduces a serious VR video game that aims to promote the learning of agile methodologies in Software Engineering education, specifically the Scrum methodology. This application tries to bring students closer to their first days of work within a software development team that uses the Scrum methodology. Two evaluation processes performed with university teachers and students indicate that the developed video game meets the proposed objectives and looks promising.

Examining and Comparing the Effectiveness of Virtual Reality Serious Games and LEGO Serious Play for Learning Scrum

“…Furthermore, some works have reported the use of this kind of game in educational settings, including games for learning languages and culture [15], physics [16], engineering [17], and topics related to computer science such as computer programming [18]. In this regard, it should be pointed out that the authors of the present contribution recently presented ScrumVR [19][20][21], which is the virtual reality serious game examined in this article.…”

Em direção de Práticas de Elicitação de Requisitos com um jogo em um ambiente de Realidade Virtual usando o próprio dispositivo móvel

“…Cabe destacar outro jogo devido ao uso do Google Cardboard [Mayor and López-Fernández 2021]. Os estudantes aprendem os conceitos do framework Scrum e experimentam alguns artefatos: Sprint Backlog, Sprint Review, Retrospective, Burnout Chart e Poker Planning.…”

Back to the Promotion - EvacSIM: a Serious Game to Practice Requirements Elicitation on an Agent-based Simulation

“…Não há portanto um diálogo que tenta replicar a interac ¸ão humana que usualmente ocorre. Já [Mayor e López-Fernández 2021] apresentam um ambiente RV para que o jogador experiencie alguns artefatos do framework Scrum (ex: sprint backlog, planning poker). Apesar de os diálogos com NPCs serem mais realistas, não há neste ambiente uma etapa específica de elicitac ¸ão de requisitos.…”