The Agile Hour in a Virtual World

2014 ◽  
pp. 196-215
Author(s):  
David Parsons ◽  
Rosemary Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Learner Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Software Development Techniques

Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) are the subject of increasing interest for educators and trainers. In the context of software development, they are beginning to see increasing use both as learning spaces and as a richer means of collaboration for virtual teams. This chapter reflects on a project that developed and evaluated a virtual agile software development workshop hosted in the Open Wonderland MUVE, designed to help learners to understand the basic principles of some core agile software development techniques. The work took a design-based research approach, following a reflective path of development through two major iterations. The authors trace the research process from a real world implementation of the “agile hour” workshop to its virtual incarnation, describing the design philosophy and the constructed virtual artifacts. They conclude by reflecting on the insights into learner perceptions and practical implementations gained from building and evaluating the Open Wonderland workshop.

The Agile Hour in a Virtual World

2015 ◽  
pp. 1386-1405
Author(s):  
David Parsons ◽  
Rosemary Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Teams ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Learner Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Software Development Techniques

Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) are the subject of increasing interest for educators and trainers. In the context of software development, they are beginning to see increasing use both as learning spaces and as a richer means of collaboration for virtual teams. This chapter reflects on a project that developed and evaluated a virtual agile software development workshop hosted in the Open Wonderland MUVE, designed to help learners to understand the basic principles of some core agile software development techniques. The work took a design-based research approach, following a reflective path of development through two major iterations. The authors trace the research process from a real world implementation of the “agile hour” workshop to its virtual incarnation, describing the design philosophy and the constructed virtual artifacts. They conclude by reflecting on the insights into learner perceptions and practical implementations gained from building and evaluating the Open Wonderland workshop.

A Virtual World Workshop Environment for Learning Agile Software Development Techniques

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Parsons ◽  
Rosemary Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Virtual Environments ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Learner Perceptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Software Development Techniques

Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) are the subject of increasing interest for educators and trainers. This article reports on a longitudinal project that seeks to establish a virtual agile software development workshop hosted in the Open Wonderland MUVE, designed to help learners to understand the basic principles of some core agile software development techniques. The authors take a design-based research approach that allows for cycles of learning and reflection that has enabled following an iterative path of development through two major iterations. The authors trace the research path followed from the real world workshop to its virtual incarnation, describing the design philosophy and the constructed virtual artefacts. The authors conclude by reflecting on the insights into learner perceptions and practical implementations gained from building and evaluating the virtual workshop.

Design-Based Research with AGILE Sprints to Produce MUVES in Vocational Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 607-624
Author(s):  
Todd Cochrane ◽  
Niki E. Davis ◽  
Julie Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Legitimate Peripheral Participation ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Software Development Techniques

An innovative approach to effective design, development and testing of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE) in vocational education is provided. It blends Agile software development with design based research (DBR), seeded with educational frameworks and theories relevant to vocational education. Legitimate peripheral participation was used as a filter to inform design thinking for authentic vocational contexts because moving towards being work ready increases the student's legitimate practices particular to a vocation. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge TPACK (Mishra & Koehler 2006) provided a framework to link content and pedagogy with the MUVE technology. Software development techniques for MUVEs are shown to have characteristics compatible with design based research. A design based methodological process that introduces software development within phases is described. The approach is illustrated in the design of two MUVE to simulate (1) the hazardous situation of temporary traffic management and (2) communication on a maritime ship's bridge.

Design-Based Research with AGILE Sprints to Produce MUVES in Vocational Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 291-313
Author(s):  
Todd Cochrane ◽  
Niki E. Davis ◽  
Julie Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Legitimate Peripheral Participation ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Software Development Techniques

An innovative approach to effective design, development and testing of Multi-User Virtual Environments (MUVE) in vocational education is provided. It blends Agile software development with design based research (DBR), seeded with educational frameworks and theories relevant to vocational education. Legitimate peripheral participation was used as a filter to inform design thinking for authentic vocational contexts because moving towards being work ready increases the student's legitimate practices particular to a vocation. Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge TPACK (Mishra & Koehler 2006) provided a framework to link content and pedagogy with the MUVE technology. Software development techniques for MUVEs are shown to have characteristics compatible with design based research. A design based methodological process that introduces software development within phases is described. The approach is illustrated in the design of two MUVE to simulate (1) the hazardous situation of temporary traffic management and (2) communication on a maritime ship's bridge.

scholarly journals hybrid Design based research for Agile Software development (hDAS) in ISD contexts: a discovery from studying how to design MUVEs for VET.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Educational Theory ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Hybrid Design ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Instructional Situation ◽  
Paradigmatic Change ◽  
Agile Software

hDAS methodology in phases determines the tailored hDAS method. Enacting the hDAS method then leads to discoveries for and from method and methodology, which leads to further tailoring of the method. I posit, a class of ADDIE like ISD processes that intrinsically trend towards increasing complexity in their design, in order to meet newly formed theoretic perspectives. Using hDAS addresses an on-going increase in complexity of ISD, through a paradigmatic change, in which the outcome of the design is also the design process adapted to current theoretical understanding and discipline needs. The way forward, as formalised in hDAS, is tailoring of ISD through DBR and Agile software development. In this paper a context for hDAS is presented by reflection on hDAS in ISD that uses: ADDIE, Agile and explicitly tests educational theory. hDAS resolves gaps identified for each of these. By enacting hDAS a tailored ISD method is induced that meets the current theoretic and vocational understanding for the instructional situation

scholarly journals Maturity in Agile Software Development

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafaela Mantovani Fontana ◽  
Sheila Reinehr ◽  
Andreia Malucelli
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Controlling Processes ◽  
Agile Teams

This paper summarizes the main objectives, research approach, and contributions of the doctoral dissertation named as “Maturity in Agile Software Development”. It was developed in the Graduate Program in Informatics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, from 2013 to 2015. The study was ́developed with the objective to characterize maturity in agile software development, as a means to guide agile teams in software process improvements. Our results contribute to the software engineering body of knowledge by showing a picture of maturity in agile teams that goes beyond defining and controlling processes, as usually stated by reference models.

scholarly journals Agile Software Development Techniques: A Survey

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-33
Author(s):  
Marriam Nawaz ◽  
Tahira Nazir ◽  
Seema Islam ◽  
Momina Masood ◽  
Awais Mehmood ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Agile Software Development ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Prototype Development ◽  
Medium Design ◽  
Software Development Methodologies ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
Software Development Techniques

In this IT era, where there is a race of software development, it is necessary to introduce such types of software development techniques which will help the practitioners to deliver fast solutions. In the past, various traditional approaches were used for this purpose, but now agile techniques are getting more popular because conventional software development approaches are not efficient in managing the changing requirements. The agile software development process is one of the most emerging lightweight software development methodologies, which uses iterative and prototype development approaches to accommodate changes in software requirements. Final software products are delivered to the end-users in short iterations. One of the most noticeable drawbacks of agile methods is their limited courtesy to the structured and architectural design of the system. Hence this development approach will restrict small to medium design decisions only. In this paper, we have performed the analysis of different agile techniques, which will help the readers to understand their positive and negative points and select the most appropriate technique suited to their projects.

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