Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Collaborative Teaching of Globally Distributed Software Development Workshop (CTGDSD), 2012
Conference_Location :
Zurich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1817-4
DOI :
10.1109/CTGDSD.2012.6226946
