Plasticine scrum: An alternative solution for simulating scrum software development

Abstract

Scrum is an efficient software development process. However, in order to master its concept, practitioners need to have a considerable level of software development skills and go through cycles of actual activities. This could be expensive and time consuming. “Scrum simulation with LEGO bricks” is a very popular solution to tackle such limitations. Unfortunately, due to its high costs, implementing this workshop in a large software engineering class could be financially challenging. This paper proposes an alternative low cost solution for simulating scrum software development by using low cost plasticine as main material. It also reports results of two pilot studies on this alternative simulation.