A Creative Ecosystem to Improve the Students Adaptation to Current Trends in IT Companies

Abstract

An intellectual capital represents all resources that determine the value of an organization, and the competitiveness of an enterprise. We would like to develop the intellectual capital of our students to simplify their adaptation to ways of working in IT companies. This paper presents a proposal to design a creative ecosystem for helping students to become more prepared for the real-life work on IT projects. We started with the SCRUM methodology; next, we applied some selected methods of active learning and continued with supporting software tools Slack and Sli.do. Our motivation was to achieve better students’ performance, timely delivery of the results and a high employment rate of our graduates. We discussed our preliminary results with participated IT companies and based on their positive feedback, we agreed on extended collaborations, e.g. invited lectures, interactive workshops or competitions for students.