Paper Info
Title
Collaboration and human factors in software development: Teaching agile methodologies based on industrial insight.
Abstract
Recent studies show that many companies have successfully adopted agile methodologies. In this paper the authors present results of their quantitative and qualitative studies, showing that only experienced companies apply agile collaboration practices properly. The studies also suggest that successful professional agile teams tend to use more collaboration practices and consciously live the agile values. This leads to the conclusion that applying the collaborative practices and living the agile values is difficult. Thus we educators should pay special attention to teaching these practices and values in courses on agile software development. This paper presents how agile collaboration is being taught in the classroom in a fourth semester software engineering module and explains the underlying assumptions. We use an agile coaching game as introduction to Scrum and discuss the mechanics of agile teams in the classroom. We present the setup of a hands-on agile student project with large student teams and the observations we made. Last but not least, we show and discuss how modern online collaboration tools act as enablers for agile collaboration in the classroom.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
Software Development,Agile,Collaboration,Collaboration tool
Field
DocType
ISSN
Scrum,Agile Unified Process,Software documentation,Lean software development,Extreme programming practices,Knowledge management,Agile usability engineering,Agile software development,Empirical process (process control model),Engineering
Conference
2165-9567
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
4
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Kropp1266.65
Andreas Meier2254.56