Virtual Scrum: A Teaching Aid to Introduce Undergraduate Software Engineering Students to Scrum

GUILLERMO RODRÍGUEZ; ÁLVARO SORIA; MARCELO CAMPO

Computer Applications in Engineering Education

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Lugar: New York; Año: 2015 vol. 23 p. 147 - 156

1099-0542

Teaching agile practices is becoming a priority in Software engineering curricula as a result of the increasing use of agile methods 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 agile methods. 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.