Measuring the Impact of Agile Coaching on Students' Performance

Nowadays, considerable attention is paid to agile methods as a means to improve management of software development processes. The widespread use of such methods in professional contexts has encouraged their integration into software engineering training and undergraduate courses. Although several re...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on education 2016-08, Vol.59 (3), p.202-209
Main Authors: Rodriguez, Guillermo, Soria, Alvaro, Campo, Marcelo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Agile coaching
capstone project
Case Studies
Coaching (Performance)
Computer Assisted Instruction
Computer Science Education
Computer Software
Context
Education
Foreign Countries
Industries
Learning
Meetings
Programming
Scrum
Scrum (Software development)
Skill Development
Software
Software development
Software engineering
software engineering education
Student Attitudes
Student Projects
Student Surveys
Students
teaching/learning strategies
Training
Undergraduate Students
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Summary:Nowadays, considerable attention is paid to agile methods as a means to improve management of software development processes. The widespread use of such methods in professional contexts has encouraged their integration into software engineering training and undergraduate courses. Although several research efforts have focused on teaching Scrum through simulating a software development project, they covered only the learning of programming practices within a Scrum team. Furthermore, few studies tackle nontechnical skills other than the development practices themselves. The work presented here introduces an original Scrum-based training model enhanced with agile coaching to maximize student performance. This was validated by a case study on a capstone project in a Scrum course. This paper summarizes the positive results of introducing agile coaching, which resulted in approximately 22% more coverage of software engineering practices. In addition, a survey data showed that, compared to students who did not receive coaching, coached students gained valuable insight into the internalization of Scrum, problem solving, and guidance by means of checkpoint meetings.
ISSN:0018-9359
1557-9638
DOI:10.1109/TE.2015.2506624