Scrum: Enhancing Student Team Organization and Collaboration

by Susan Opt & Christy-Dale L. Sims Courses: Any communication course requiring a semester-long team project. Objectives: After using the Scrum approach to plan and manage a group project, students will have increased awareness of collaborative needs, improved skills for sharing information in non-evaluative ways, improved time management skills, and enhanced ability to assess their group dynamic constructively.

Design Education - Growing Our Future : Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, 2013

This paper discusses what design students gain from implementing project management practices from the Scrum framework within a project-organised and problem-based learning environment. Experiments with Scrum are carried out in student groups of a bachelor programme in Industrial Design and a Robotics and Automation Group at Aalborg University. The results of the research project indicate improved focus and team efficiency when using Scrum as well as significant improvements on internal team communication and attitude.

Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship, 2018

Project and team management play a major role in the student team’s project performance. This is more evident when projects last a long time and the teams are large. In this work, a student team accepted to use SCRUM as their project management methodology during their Project Based Learning (PjBL) experience. This PjBL experience took place on the 7th semester of the Integrated Master in Industrial Engineering and Management degree. The team had a short period of time to train the technique and apply it throughout the entire semester. Although not very enthusiastic in the beginning of the project, the team gradually became aware of the advantages of SCRUM features, recognizing the feeling of having the project under control and gaining management effectiveness throughout the semester. In the end, the team performed well above the average, being one of the two teams with the highest score of the class.

The use of scrum development methodology to promote learning in project driven, interdisciplinary higher education courses in computer science is examined by using theoretical notations and recent research results from the literature. Moreover, empirical data will be gathered from a case study on a research focused, project driven under-graduate course in computer science. Our contribution is to initiate a discussion aiming at increasing the pedagogical awareness on the use of the scrum methodology to promote learning in higher education. Moreover, a further refined scrum method, adapted and more fine-tuned to suit the par-ticular needs in the learning situation at university courses in technology, is proposed.

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This study aims at conceptualizing how the Agile strategy, especially Scrum, may be used in education environments as a learning tool in universities, especially at education colleges, to make sure quality of education in line with the achievement, learning skills of the 21st century. First, the features of this methodology are described in process mapping with 12 steps so as to be easy to implement in the education environment and later connected to the literature of learning skills in the 21st century. This experience has shown that implementing the Scrum methodology may improve learning skills of the 21th century in terms of collaboration, self-regulation, and an increase in cognitive and metacognitive learning outcomes. Secondly, an empirical study was conducted. The Scrum methodology forces the teacher and students to clarify its purpose. As a result, its complexity is decreasing, and therefore the real-world issue is becoming less overwhelming. The reviews illustrate particula...

This paper deals with the Scrum methodology as an alternative to pedagogical practices and managing of the software projects, presenting an investigation with the students of scientific initiation of an university from the Brazil's northeast. It was seeking to analyze the accomplishment of the students with the Scrum practices, as well the percepetion of the learning of the methodology, showing the positive aspects and the negative ones through this experience. As a conclusion, the Scrum methodology is indicated to manage projects even when the team has limited or none experience promoting the learning, adding value and satisfaction to the student.

This paper deals with the Scrum methodology as an alternative to pedagogical practices and managing of the software projects, presenting an investigation with the students of scientific initiation of an university from the Brazil's northeast. It was seeking to analyze the accomplishment of the students with the Scrum practices, as well the percepetion of the learning of the methodology, showing the positive aspects and the negative ones through this experience. As a conclusion, the Scrum methodology is indicated to manage projects even when the team has limited or none experience promoting the learning, adding value and satisfaction to the student.

Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 2013

Teaching agile practices is becoming a priority in Software engineering curricula as a result of the increasing use of agile methods (AMs) such as Scrum in the software industry. Limitations in time, scope, and facilities within academic contexts hinder students' hands-on experience in the use of professional AMs. To enhance students' exposure to Scrum, we have developed Virtual Scrum, an educational virtual world that simulates a Scrum-based team room through virtual elements such as blackboards, a Web browser, document viewers, charts, and a calendar. A preliminary version of Virtual Scrum was tested with a group of 45 students running a capstone project with and without Virtual Scrum support. Students' feedback showed that Virtual Scrum is a viable and effective tool to implement the different elements in a Scrum team room and to perform activities throughout the Scrum process. ß

2009 39th IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2009

The premises considered by this work are that projects development in graduate courses is important for knowledge consolidation. However, one of the problems is that, usually, students are not prepared to manage and to be managed. This situation causes higher effort waste and is time-consuming. Additionally, the quality is decreased due to poor self-management and inadequate division of activities. Such problems can be minimized if there is a management policy that provides a wider vision of the project's course, allowing the problems to be anticipated in such a way as to correct the flaws as soon as possible. This work proposes the adaptation of the SCRUM Agile Project Management Methodology in the context of the development of academic projects, both in undergraduate and graduate courses, where students are organized in small teams and execute the project in a systematic way. This method was applied during the practical part of the "real-time systems" course, whose project was the development of an automated industrial production line with robot arms, using the LEGO NXT robotic kit. Therefore, this paper will show implementation aspects of the proposed method, difficulties and solutions, which parts of Scrum were effectively adopted and, specially, the learnt lessons.

2012 Agile India, 2012

Imparting industry relevant skills and knowledge for the graduating students in the field of Software Engineering is difficult but is necessary to make the students employable and productive right from the joining. With outdated curriculum and slow process of revision of syllabi it is difficult to achieve this objective. This paper discusses how one of the popular agile project management frameworks, Scrum can be taught and used to teach basic concepts of project management without necessitating revision of the syllabus. It also discusses the rise in motivation and interest level of students due to adoption of this approach. It also shows the flexibility of this agile approach to adapt to a situation different than a normal software development scenario in an organization.