Teaching agile software development through lab courses

Schröeder, Andreas; Klarl, Annabelle; Mayer, Philip; Kroiß, Christian

doi:10.1109/educon.2012.6201194

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“…Scharf and Koch present similar results in their practical report on the use of Scrum in a SE course [26]. According to Scroeder et al, Scrum is also used in software development lab courses [27]. The authors emphasize the focus on product creation and continuous improvements instead of the completeness of the product.…”

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confidence: 73%

Agile Methods in Higher Education: Adapting and Using eduScrum with Real World Projects

Neumann¹,

Baumann²

2021

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This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents our learnings of the process to perform a Master of Science class with eduScrum integrating real world problems as projects. We prepared, performed, and evaluated an agile educational concept for the new Master of Science program Digital Transformation organized and provided by the department of business computing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts -Hochschule Hannover in Germany. The course deals with innovative methodologies of agile project management and is attended by 25 students. We performed the class due the summer term in 2019 and 2020 as a teaching pair. The eduScrum method has been used in different educational contexts, including higher education. During the approach preparation, we decided to use challenges, problems, or questions from the industry. Thus, we acquired four companies and prepared in coordination with them dedicated project descriptions. Each project description was refined in the form of a backlog (list of requirements). We divided the class into four eduScrum teams, one team for each project. The subdivision of the class was done randomly. Since we wanted to integrate realistic projects into industry partners' implementation, we decided to adapt the eduScrum approach. The eduScrum teams were challenged with different projects, e.g., analyzing a dedicated phenomenon in a real project or creating a theoretical model for a company's new project management approach. We present our experiences of the whole process to prepare, perform and evaluate an agile educational approach combined with projects from practice. We found, that the students value the agile method using real world problems. However, the results are mainly based on the summer term 2019, this paper also includes our learnings from virtual distance teaching during the Covid 19 pandemic in summer term 2020. The paper contributes to the distribution of methods for higher education teaching in the classroom and distance learning.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Agile Methods in Higher Education: Adapting and Using eduScrum with Real World Projects

Neumann¹,

Baumann²

2021

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“…Schroeder et al [30] presented the setup, implementation, and results of two software development labs using Scrum in 2010 and 2011. They found the Scrum methodology to be ideal for introducing software processes.…”

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An Experience Report at Teaching a Group Based Agile Software Development Project Course

Anslow

Maurer

2015

Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Teaching group based Agile software development project courses is difficult. There are many aspects that need to be considered for a project to be successful such as a well defined scope, students working effectively together, and engaging with the customer. In this paper we present an experience report at teaching an Agile software development project course that involved teams developing web applications. The resources developed for the course and discussion about our experience will help inform others who also wish to teach group based software development courses.

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“…Most of the studies analyzed focus on learning environments within the field of informatics. Some papers, such as The Bug is a Lie, 44 ScrumTutor 37 or Virtual Scrum, 33 have developed a programme to teach the agile method. Kanban Pizza Game, 22 LEGO4Scrum, 7 XP Game 24 or Pass the Pennies 22 are different to most proposals in that they focus on teaching agility through different concepts to those used in Scrum, Kaban or eXtreme Programming.…”

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DesignScrum–An agility educational resource powered by creativity

Villarrubia,

Vara,

Granada

et al. 2024

Softw Pract Exp

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Agile methods have been widely adopted by the industry and its teaching has seen a surge, particularly in the software development field. However, these methods have a number of limitations which affect product outcomes, such as the fact that many software development companies now use Scrum to get developers to work without interruption between iterations, rather than to maintain a sustainable rhythm. Agile experts have stated the importance of incorporating creativity into Scrum, and although there are several agile resources that help with the learning process, it seems essential to approach such learning from a practical point of view. Furthermore, none of these resources introduce creativity. In this paper, we present an educational resource in the form of a serious game that allows you to acquire all the key concepts of agile and creative methods. The game is based on the use of LEGO pieces to simulate a real project, applying the key concepts of the Scrum and Design Thinking frameworks in a gamified way. It was assessed in a professional training centre of computer science by using surveys through which participants evaluated their previous knowledge of agile and creativity methods. We analysed the improvement of these competences, as well as the general level of satisfaction with the game. After the game, the results showed that the participants' knowledge of the Scrum and Design Thinking frameworks had improved and that they were very satisfied with the whole experience.

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Teaching agile software development through lab courses

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

Agile Methods in Higher Education: Adapting and Using eduScrum with Real World Projects

Agile Methods in Higher Education: Adapting and Using eduScrum with Real World Projects

An Experience Report at Teaching a Group Based Agile Software Development Project Course

DesignScrum–An agility educational resource powered by creativity

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