Teaching software project management by using Lego Mindstorm robot

Author

Silveira Duarte, Alessandro ; L´Erario, Alexandre ; Takeshi Endo, Andre ; Canhadas Genvigir, Elias ; de Lima, Fernando Cesar ; Canhadas Genvigir, Gabriel ; Goncalves, Jose Antonio ; Fabri, Jose Augusto ; da Silva Rocha, Josimar

Author_Institution

Programa de Pos Grad. em Inf., Univ. Tecnol. Fed. do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

fYear

2014

fDate

18-21 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper reports an experience on using the robot Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0, model 8547, to support the teaching of Software Project Management. We conducted an experiment in which two teams developed a software project using the robot, while applying principles of project management. The experiment was divided into two parts. First, we verified the existence of related project management techniques. Second, we mapped the results obtained by the project in order to verify whether the project management had impacted on the results, as expected. We conclude that the Lego robot is a motivational factor for the students and can be adopted as a learning object in the teaching of Software Project Management.

Keywords

computer science education; educational robots; project management; software management; teaching; Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0 robot; software project management teaching; students motivational factor; Education; Erbium; Project management; Robots; Software; Software engineering; Springs; Learning objects; Lego; Mindstorm; Software Project Management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI), 2014 9th Iberian Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CISTI.2014.6876954

Filename

6876954