Combining lean teaching and learning with eduScrum

Dinis‐Carvalho, José; Fernandes, Sandra; Filho, José Carlos Reston

doi:10.1504/ijssca.2017.086599

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“…Scrum should be adapted and integrated in academic environments [19][20][21][22]. Scrum can be used as a very effective project and team management tool in assisting teams of students in project work and EduScrum can be effective in more traditional learning formats.…”

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“…Taking into consideration that Scrum has been used in student-centered teaching and learning processes in higher education, with special emphasis on PBL approaches, it could be useful to develop a specific framework for Scrum adapted to the PBL contexts of higher education. As aimed by Dinis-Carvalho, Fernandes and J. C. R. Filho (2017) [22], comparing and combining Lean Teaching and Learning (LTL) features with EduScrum and vice versa, proposing a set of guidelines based on the best practices of each approach, it is important to develop a Scrum model suitable for PBL approaches.…”

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Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness of Scrum for project and team management in PBL teams in higher education. To attain this goal, a study was carried out to analyze students’ perceptions about Scrum as an effective method for PBL teams. Based on two different editions of PBL that used the Scrum method with different characteristics in each approach, this paper aims to identify the best practices for effective team and project management and draw recommendations for successful use of scrum in PBL approaches. The authors used an exploratory case study carried out within an engineering program at the University of Minho, Portugal. The research design was based on an explorative quantitative and qualitative approach. Implementing Scrum in PBL teams helps students to keep the project running smoothly and draws greater awareness on how to manage the project and teams in a more effective way. Findings show that task assignment, performance monitoring, visual management and regular feedback were considered the main advantages of using Scrum in PBL teams, which had a positive impact on student performance. However, for the success of Scrum, students recognize the role of the Scrum Master and Project Owner as vital to guide the teams in a sustainable way. Research on the application of Scrum in Education is scarce and mostly exploratory. This paper is among the very few empirical studies consolidating knowledge on the implementation of Scrum approaches to improve learning in higher education. More specifically, it brings a valuable contribution on how to improve specifically team performance in PBL teams with the use of agile approaches such as Scrum.

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Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

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“…The principles of this system can be applied in three different strategic objectives: (1) to improve processes, e.g. student applications, admissions, registration, accounting, and others (Balzer et al, 2015(Balzer et al, , 2016Douglas et al, 2015;Magalhães et al, 2019); (2) to enhance teaching in the classroom (Carvalho and Fernandes, 2016); (3) to update curricula by integrating the philosophy, principles, and tools of Lean thinking (Alves et al, 2017). Regarding this third aspect, it is important to highlight that Lean Education goes deeper than just updating curricula to include Lean Thinking as curricular content.…”

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Assessing internal organizational pathways to reduce knowledge waste: a Lean thinking perspective

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PurposeThe purpose of this article was to evaluate the causal influence of Lean management practices on knowledge waste within the context of higher education institutions (HEIs). The peculiarities of knowledge impress upon organizations the need to think about reducing knowledge waste as a crucial practice. The Lean philosophy and practices therefore stand out as an appropriate management perspective, particularly given Lean's focus on waste elimination. However, little is known about the influence of Lean practices on reducing knowledge waste.Design/methodology/approachA quantitative research instrument was distributed to professors and technical and administrative staff across three types of HEI in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The validated and pretested survey was circulated to the target population via an online method to explore eight constructs and 38 items concerning Lean and knowledge and waste.FindingsThe results of the survey indicated that all hypotheses were supported. The sum total of 837 responses showed that the Lean relationships (internal organizational paths) were more obvious where leadership support proved to have a positive effect on continuous improvement, training, and customer involvement. Moreover, the significant and negative effects of the Lean practices studied on knowledge waste was also supported, including for example, the interaction between HEIs and its client base.Originality/valueHEIs are knowledge generators. Therefore, the necessity of avoiding and reducing knowledge waste is even greater. This study also differentiates itself from the “traditional” knowledge loss studies by investigating knowledge while the employees are still part of an organization and not after they have left taking the knowledge away with them.

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“…Dinis-Carvalho et al evaluate eduScrum and lean teaching. The authors present a guideline for the use of the both methods that they have created based on best practices [7].…”

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Agile Methods in Higher Education: Adapting and Using eduScrum with Real World Projects

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2021

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This Innovative Practice Full Paper presents our learnings of the process to perform a Master of Science class with eduScrum integrating real world problems as projects. We prepared, performed, and evaluated an agile educational concept for the new Master of Science program Digital Transformation organized and provided by the department of business computing at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts -Hochschule Hannover in Germany. The course deals with innovative methodologies of agile project management and is attended by 25 students. We performed the class due the summer term in 2019 and 2020 as a teaching pair. The eduScrum method has been used in different educational contexts, including higher education. During the approach preparation, we decided to use challenges, problems, or questions from the industry. Thus, we acquired four companies and prepared in coordination with them dedicated project descriptions. Each project description was refined in the form of a backlog (list of requirements). We divided the class into four eduScrum teams, one team for each project. The subdivision of the class was done randomly. Since we wanted to integrate realistic projects into industry partners' implementation, we decided to adapt the eduScrum approach. The eduScrum teams were challenged with different projects, e.g., analyzing a dedicated phenomenon in a real project or creating a theoretical model for a company's new project management approach. We present our experiences of the whole process to prepare, perform and evaluate an agile educational approach combined with projects from practice. We found, that the students value the agile method using real world problems. However, the results are mainly based on the summer term 2019, this paper also includes our learnings from virtual distance teaching during the Covid 19 pandemic in summer term 2020. The paper contributes to the distribution of methods for higher education teaching in the classroom and distance learning.

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Combining lean teaching and learning with eduScrum

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Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

Improving the Performance of Student Teams in Project-Based Learning with Scrum

Assessing internal organizational pathways to reduce knowledge waste: a Lean thinking perspective

Agile Methods in Higher Education: Adapting and Using eduScrum with Real World Projects

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