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Masters of the Process: A Board Game Proposal for Teaching Software Management and Software Development Process

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SBES '19: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

Pages 532 - 536

https://doi.org/10.1145/3350768.3352459

Published: 23 September 2019 Publication History

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Software Engineering (SE) education has a current challenge to provide sufficient hands-on experience for their students. Game-based learning represents a promising alternative to teach computing in higher education, promoting an "active learning" and serving as entertaining means for drill and practice. This paper presents "Masters of the Process", a board game proposal for teaching software management and software development process competences. For this, the design, construction and evaluation steps of the proposed game are described, as well as the usability results together with a brief comparison among SE board games. As a result, a simple, interactive and multiplayer game was provided, able to teach important SE concepts in a practical, competitive and funny way.

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Masters of the Process: A Board Game Proposal for Teaching Software Management and Software Development Process
1. Applied computing
  1. Education
    1. Interactive learning environments

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SBES '19: Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering

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DOI:10.1145/3350768

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Sousa TMarques ACavalcante EDantas FBatista T(2020)LEARN Board GameProceedings of the XXXIV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering10.1145/3422392.3422494(834-843)Online publication date: 21-Oct-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3422392.3422494
Matias BGomes VSarinho V(2019)UGC Generator: An Open Access Web Tool to Model Unified Game CanvasEntertainment Computing and Serious Games10.1007/978-3-030-34644-7_36(407-411)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2019
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34644-7_36

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