Teaching Agile: Addressing the conflict between project delivery and application of Agile methodsShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering, IEEE Computer Society , 2016, p. 303-312Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper analyses the changes we have made in teaching agile methodologies, practices, and principles in four courses in order to address a specific dilemma: students need to apply agile methods in order to learn them, but when complementing our courses with applied content, we face the problem that students perceive the learning and application of agile methods as less important than delivering a finished product at the end of the course. This causes students to not apply theoretical process knowledge and therefore to not develop necessary skills associated with working with defined processes in the industry. Concretely, we report on our experience with teaching Scrum with Lego, removing formal grading requirements on the delivered product, emphasising process application in post-mortem reports, and organisational changes to support the process during supervision. These changes are analysed in the context of student satisfaction, teacher observations, and achievements of learning outcomes. We also provide an overview of the lessons learnt to help guide the design of courses on agile methodologies.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE Computer Society , 2016. p. 303-312
Keywords [en]
Agile methodogies, Project-based learning, Scrum, Software engineering education, Teaching, Curricula, Education, Grading, Software engineering, Students, Agile Methodologies, Organisational change, Process applications, Process knowledge, Project based learning, Student satisfaction
National Category
Engineering and Technology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-43904DOI: 10.1145/2889160.2889181Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85021171536ISBN: 9781450341615 (print)ISBN: 9781450342056 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-43904DiVA, id: diva2:1393483
Conference
2016 IEEE/ACM 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2016, 14 May 2016 through 22 May 2016
2020-02-172020-02-172020-12-01Bibliographically approved