PlayScrum - A Card Game to Learn the Scrum Agile Method

Author

Fernandes, João M. ; Sousa, Sónia M.

Author_Institution

Dept. Inf., CCTC Univ. do Minho, Braga, Portugal

fYear

2010

fDate

25-26 March 2010

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

59

Abstract

To motivate and engage students and, consequently, improve the quality of learning, some researchers suggest new ways of teaching, including the use of serious games in the classroom. This paper describes PlayScrum, a new card game devised to allow university-level students to learn Scrum, an agile software development method. We present the card game, its rules, and how it supports the main concepts of the Scrum method. We also discuss how PlayScrum was validated, based on questionnaires filled in by master students who have played it.

Keywords

computer science education; games of skill; software development management; software prototyping; PlayScrum; agile software development method; card game; learning quality; scrum agile method; Application software; Education; Process design; Programming profession; Project management; Robustness; Software engineering; Software quality; Software systems; Telecommunications; Scrum; card game; learning; software engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Games and Virtual Worlds for Serious Applications (VS-GAMES), 2010 Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Braga

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6331-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6332-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VS-GAMES.2010.24

Filename

5460150