Matthies, C., & Kowark, T., & Uflacker, M. (2016, June), Teaching Agile the Agile Way — Employing Self-Organizing Teams in a University Software Engineering Course  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE International Forum, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/1-2--27259

\bibitem{asee_peer_27259}
  Matthies, C., \& Kowark, T., \& Uflacker, M. (2016, June), \emph{Teaching Agile the Agile Way — Employing Self-Organizing Teams in a University Software Engineering Course}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE International Forum, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/1-2--27259

Christoph Matthies, Thomas Kowark, and Matthias Uflacker.  "Teaching Agile the Agile Way — Employing Self-Organizing Teams in a University Software Engineering Course".  2016 ASEE International Forum, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://peer.asee.org/27259 Internet.  03 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_27259}
  Christoph Matthies, Thomas Kowark, and Matthias Uflacker.
  "Teaching Agile the Agile Way — Employing Self-Organizing Teams in a University Software Engineering Course".
  \emph{2016 ASEE International Forum, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://peer.asee.org/27259 Internet.  03 Feb, 2025

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AB  - Teaching students the basics of agile software development, by pairing lectures with a practical project, has been a part of computer science curricula for the last decades. However, the structure of these projects is often not agile and adaptable itself, in the way how teams are formed, workload is assigned, and meetings are organised. This restricts the areas that students can gather firsthand experiences in. In this paper we describe a university software engineering course which applies the values of the Agile Manifesto to the course design itself. Students work in self-organizing teams and are given significant authority and responsibility for their work, including planning, scheduling, and workload assignment. During the project they are guided by tutors and supported by a minimal amount of traditional lectures. We regularly assess learning progress and satisfaction via surveys and compare the results to those of more controlled course setups. We have observed positive student attitudes towards the self-organizing approach, with no adverse effects of the novel course design in terms of participant satisfaction or learning success. This confirms that the benefits of agile values, reported in the literature, are also applicable in the domain of education on the subject and can help increase student engagement and provide a better learning experience.
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