On the difficulties for students to adhere to Scrum on Global Software Development projects: Preliminary results

Author

Scharff, Christelle ; Heng, Samedi ; Kulkarni, Vidya

Author_Institution

Seidenberg Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Syst., Pace Univ., New York, NY, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

9-9 June 2012

Firstpage

25

Lastpage

29

Abstract

We present the 2011 version of the Global Software Development project that we run annually. Developers were distributed across three countries to develop mobile solutions on the theme of sustainability. They followed the Scrum process and used the IBM Rational Team Concert tool. This study elicits the difficulties encountered by the students new to Scrum in adhering to its discipline. We examined if the causes of these difficulties were due to the fact that developers were distributed across time, distance, and culture. We also studied the impact of the chosen tooling.

Keywords

computer science education; mobile computing; project management; software development management; software prototyping; Global Software Development project; IBM Rational Team Concert tool; Scrum adherence; Scrum process; mobile solution development; student difficulties; sustainability; Educational institutions; Electronic publishing; Information services; Internet; Mobile communication; Planning; Programming; global software development; process; scrum; tooling infrastructure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development Workshop (CTGDSD), 2012

Conference_Location

Zurich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1817-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CTGDSD.2012.6226946

Filename

6226946