Quantitative assessment with using ticket driven development for teaching scrum framework

Abstract

Developing software by teams which adopted the agile de-velopment methodology such as Scrum seems totally natu-ral in industry. On the other hand, students belonging to graduate schools of information science who have some ex-perience on the agile team software development are rare. In the initial education on the Scrum, there exists some challenges. The first one is a concept of self-organization. In the Scrum project, members of the team determine how best to accomplish the tasks by themselves. However, it is challenging for students with less experience on team soft-ware development to cultivate the self-organizing team by themselves. The 2nd one is inequality on task assignment. In the Scrum project, each member pulls tasks to perform, and do not wait to be assigned by Project Manager. The assignment behavior may cause inequality on task assign-ment. As a result, such inequality may also cause inequality on learning opportunities to acquire skills and knowledge on the process and the product. In this paper, we propose quantitative assessment methods for the Scrum project with using TiDD(Ticket Driven Development) for the initial edu-cation on the Scrum framework and web application produc-tion. We report on our basic PBL(Project-Based Learning) course which involved 49 students. The use of quantitative criteria enabled students and teachers to assess the Scrum projects in the viewpoints of quality, assignment, and deliv-ery of projects. Copyright © 2014 ACM.