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Publication Date: 2022
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Adapting Scrum for Software Capstone Courses
Chang, Hung-Fu; Shokrolah Shirazi, Mohammad
Informatics in Education, v21 n4 p605-634 2022
Scrum is a widely-used framework in industry, so many schools apply it to their software engineering courses, particularly capstone courses. Due to the differences between students and industrial professionals, changing Scrum is necessary to fit capstone projects. In this paper, we suggest a decision-making process to assist instructors in developing a strategy to adapt Scrum for their course. This framework considers critical differences, such as student's workloads and course schedules, and keeps the Agile principles and Scrum events. To evaluate the adapted Scrum, we investigated student's learning experiences, satisfaction, and performance by quantitatively analyzing user story points and source codes and qualitatively studying instructor's evaluations, student's feedback, and Sprint Retrospective notes. Our two case studies about adapted Scrum showed that having daily stand-up meetings in every class was not helpful, student's satisfaction positively correlated to the difficulty of the task they tackled, and the project provided good learning experiences.
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Capstone Experiences, Learning Experience, Task Analysis, Difficulty Level, Case Studies, Computer Software, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Instructional Effectiveness, Course Descriptions, Teamwork, Student Projects, Active Learning
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