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Introducing SCRUM into a Distributed Software Development Course

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Federico Ciccozzi,

Elisabetta Di Nitto,

Raffaela MirandolaAuthors Info & Claims

ECSAW '15: Proceedings of the 2015 European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops

Article No.: 34, Pages 1 - 8

https://doi.org/10.1145/2797433.2797469

Published: 07 September 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The growing enactment of Global Software Engineering in industry has triggered educational institutions to perceive the importance of preparing students for distributed software development. During the last twelve years we have disclosed advantages and pitfalls of GSE to our students through our Distributed Software Development course. After running the projects according to the iterative process model for eleven years, we decided to shift to an agile development model, SCRUM. This decision was due to the growing industrial adoption of agile methods, but more importantly to increase proactiveness, sense of responsibility, and to balance the workload among the project team members. In this paper we describe the process and outcomes of our first attempt at introducing SCRUM in our distributed course.

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Introducing SCRUM into a Distributed Software Development Course
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education

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https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEET58097.2023.00018
Yamamoto MFukuoka KKiyohara RTerashima Y(2019)Progress Management Method for Software Development Project-based Learning Using Automated Teaching Assistants2019 Twelfth International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Network (ICMU)10.23919/ICMU48249.2019.9006667(1-4)Online publication date: Nov-2019
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