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Being Agile in the Software Engineering Classroom: Using Agile Approaches Instead of Plan-driven Approaches

Bruce Allen Scharlau

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We had an outdated, unsuitable pair of courses covering software engineering over an academic year, which were rewritten last summer. Out went the plan-driven project approach of GANNT charts, and a belief that 'better estimates' would save the day. In came a lightweight focus on a mix of extreme programming and scrum to incrementally, and iteratively build products.

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We had an outdated, unsuitable pair of courses covering software engineering over an academic year, which were rewritten last summer. Out went the plan-driven project approach of GANNT charts, and a belief that 'better estimates' would save the day. In came a lightweight focus on a mix of extreme programming and scrum to incrementally, and iteratively build products.

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We had an outdated, unsuitable pair of courses covering software engineering over an academic year, which were rewritten last summer. Out went the plan-driven project approach of GANNT charts, and a belief that 'better estimates' would save the day. In came a lightweight focus on a mix of extreme programming and scrum to incrementally, and iteratively build products.

Key concepts: Agile software development, Scrum, User story, Extreme programming, Plan (archaeology), Extreme programming practices, Software engineering, Focus (optics)

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