Teaching Agile: addressing the conflict between project delivery and application of Agile methodsShow others and affiliations
2016 (English)In: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, ACM Publications, 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
ACM Publications, 2016. p. 303-312
Series
Proceedings / International Conference of Software Engineering, ISSN 0270-5257, E-ISSN 1558-1225
National Category
Software Engineering
Research subject
Computer and Information Sciences Computer Science, Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-62545DOI: 10.1145/2889160.2889181ISI: 000402155300035Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85021171536ISBN: 978-1-4503-4205-6 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-62545DiVA, id: diva2:1089861
Conference
38th International Conference on Software Engineering Companion, Software Engineering Education and Training Track, Austin, May 14-22, 2016
2017-04-212017-04-212022-02-22Bibliographically approved