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Agile hour: teaching XP skills to students and IT professionals

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Daniel Lübke,

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PROFES'05: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement

Pages 517 - 529

https://doi.org/10.1007/11497455_40

Published: 13 June 2005 Publication History

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Agile Methods, like Extreme Programming, have increasingly become a viable alternative for conducting software projects, especially for projects with a very short time-to-market or uncertain customer-requirements. Using a technique called Agile Hours it is possible to convey many feelings associated with an Extreme Programming project. Within 70 minutes, a project is performed in which a product is built with Lego bricks. We applied this approach to (1) students and (2) IT professionals. By comparing the two groups, we found that both behaved comparable: we observed a number of interesting differences, although of minor importance. Both groups seemed to benefit from the Agile (Lego) Hours.

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Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Fraunhofer Platz 1, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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VTT Electronics, Fraunhofer Platz 1, Oulu, Finland

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Brito AVieira JMaldonado JFerrari FKulesza UUchôa Conte T(2017)'2TScrum'Proceedings of the XXXI Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3131151.3131177(279-288)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3131151.3131177
Steghfer JBurden HAlahyari HHaneberg D(2017)No silver brickJournal of Systems and Software10.1016/j.jss.2017.06.019131:C(230-247)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jss.2017.06.019
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