This paper presents the practice and experience in adopting an agile organizational model for a final-year capstone program in Software Engineering. The model developed is motivated by having real (and developing) software artifacts with incrementally changing team members working on a product-line. This in turn results in more sophisticated capstone student-project outcomes. The model proposed supports student mentoring and promotes, through its internal organization, leadership and personal responsibility. The students are supported by professional software engineers, up-skilling workshops, and academic supervisors who act as a personalized reporting and grading point for the team. The academic supervisors are themselves supported by a tribe leader, a faculty member who assumes overall responsibility for a product-line, and who acts as a report to an external industry client/sponsor. This paper describes the motivation for the capstone model, its adoption, and some preliminary observations.
History
Pagination
1-11
Location
Seoul, South Korea
Start date
2020-06-27
End date
2020-07-19
ISBN-13
9781450371247
Language
eng
Publication classification
E1 Full written paper - refereed
Editor/Contributor(s)
[Unknown]
Title of proceedings
ICSE-SEET '20: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training
Event
Software engineering: Software engineering education and training. International conference (42nd : 2020 : Seoul, South Korea)